Reading Greenteeth felt like a breath of fresh spring air, sitting by the side of a lake with a cool glass of water.

What a wonderful, folklore and fae heavy story. What a unique, funny POV main character.

If you’re looking for a book full of questing, of magical creatures and adventures and friendship, then this is the book for you. The way the worldbulding was done was so beautiful—I live in England, and getting to see it through the eyes of this book felt especially touching. It’s not often that I come across fantasy books like this, and I’m going to treasure it for a long time.

This book was a book club pick, and I wouldn’t have chosen it on my own because I struggle a lot with stream of consciousness writing. I found it difficult to follow everything here, and I’m certain that much went over my head. Yet, even with my limited understanding, this was one of the most devastating reads I’ve ever experienced. The only other book that gave me a similar feeling of dread was "I Who Have Never Known Men".

The novel leaves many questions unanswered and offers no clear resolutions which, given its themes, would arguably be impossible. It questions humanity, violence and suffering in a deeply symbolic way, granting readers lots of room for interpretation and ensuring that everyone closes the book with different emotions and thoughts. If you dislike interpretive ambiguity, this book is probably not for you.

Because of its narrative style, the entire book reads like a dream (nightmare) filled with pain and a desperate search for salvation. To me, it felt as though it were set in a in-between state between life and death.

The central themes are the inheritance of trauma and the duty to remember. Snow dominates the atmosphere. It's cold and life-threatening, erasing all boundaries while simultaneously swallowing the landscape and dampening every sound. It ensures that unearthing the past and remembering the suffering remains a painful, almost unbearable process for survivors and their descendants.

I truly cannot imagine how humanity can ever move on from this kind of horror and trauma especially when, as we currently see in Kurdistan, Sudan, Palestine, and elsewhere, there is and was still no real accountability.