booking_along 's review for:

Baby Teeth by Daniel Polansky
2.5
dark reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

It should be harder to kill a person. It shouldn’t be possible. We should be immortal, untouchable, beloved children of a just God. There is a flaw in the system. A mistake has been made.

this was a bit of a strange one in the sense that i enjoyed it, i liked how this took a bit of a different spin on the vampire thing but for a short story that is really not that long -under 50 pages- it felt too slow and too dragged out in some places. 

maybe because the tone is very monotone and slow.  while there some time jumps in the story to move it along, overall it’s very slow paced. 

i also did not understand at all way the bits about the D&D games where in here other than that i guess the author plays it enjoys it?
because it didn’t really needed to be in the story at all for the story to work. 

i also really disliked how there was almost an uncaring tone towards women and girls and how they were sexualized and shown as interchangeable or expendable. or at least that’s how it felt to me, reading it. 

overall not bad but it could have been better and it wasn’t an overly enjoyable read for me.