Thrive Together Movement

“They can’t keep scraping away layers of me thinking they can find the girl they want underneath.”

📖BOOK REVIEW📖

‘The Spirit Bares Its Teeth’ by .

A gripping read all the way through.

In a world where the Veil between the living in the dead has thinned, there exists the Royal Speaker Society to regulate who is allowed to manipulate the veil and who is not. Men are thought to be stout enough for such a task, while women are more suited toward becoming wives. Sixteen year old Silas Bell knows he has always been a boy, despite the world seeing otherwise, and he would rather risk ex*****on than become a Speaker wife. When his attempt to escape his fate doesn’t go to plan, he is diagnosed with ‘Veil Sickness’ and whisked away to a remote facility for those with such an ailment. But girls have been disappearing for years, and their ghosts have lingered.

Holy s**t this book is so good. I set off on this read expecting gory, macabre elements and a scary story of ghosts and the evil men that create them. Not only did this book exceed expectations, it gave me so much more. There is medical horror. Body horror. Commentary on the horrors of being a woman/girl in a world ruled by men. The frustration of having to break one’s own self in order to fit into the world (getting inside of Silas’s brain while he was forced to mask his autism was heartbreaking, to say the least.) AND, out of this tale, readers are also gifted retribution. A sweet love story. A hope that persists despite dire circumstances. I loved every single second of my time spent with Silas and in this world. I highly recommend this book to any horror lover.

A moment for the ✨AUTHORS✨

One of the absolute best parts of Bookcon was being able to fangirl over authors to their faces, and I will never get over how wonderful, kind, supportive, and delightful these humans who wrote our favorite stories are.

📖From gathering the courage to talk to on the show floor to going to her signing to gush over how obsessed I am with her books (also destroyed 🥲)
📖To yapping with multiple times and finally getting my copy of Carnival Fantastico signed 🥹
📖To meeting and screaming over her blind manuscript sampler
📖To seeing our queen again and getting my very own Pip 😍
📖To once again seeing the force that is speak and sobbing...again
📖To somehow ending up in a bar after con with some of the most poetic authors I've ever had the pleasure to read
📖To hunting down because gay vampires are MUST
📖To hanging with at the kickoff party and screaming about gay hockey players
📖To giggling with at the kickoff party
📖To meeting and yapping with the icon .wolfe (also shout-out to Maverick!)

I had a dream of a time. Shout-out to these wonderful authors for sharing their stories and themselves ❤️.