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"Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?"

Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise?

When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from the Delta Bilingual Academy convene after school, Annelise leads them in thrilling but increasingly dangerous rituals to a rhinestoned, Dior-scented, drag-queen god of her own invention. Even more perilous is the secret Annelise and Fernanda share, rooted in a dare in which violence meets love. Meanwhile, their literature teacher Miss Clara, who is obsessed with imitating her dead mother, struggles to preserve her deteriorating sanity. Each day she edges nearer to a total break with reality.

Interweaving pop culture references and horror concepts drawn from from Herman Melville, H. P. Lovecraft, and anonymous "creepypastas," Jawbone is an ominous, multivocal novel that explores the terror inherent in the pure potentiality of adolescence and the fine line between desire and fear.

©2017 Mónica Ojeda; Translation copyright 2022 by Sarah Booker (P)2023 Tantor
Genre Fiction Horror Psychological Scary Fiction
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If you can sweep the ‘ick’ moments under the rug it’s definitely an interesting read that makes you want to unfold the reasons for the kidnapping, you start to get there and then the book ends, with not resolution or consequences for Anne’s lies. Frustrating ending for sure

Abrupt ending and a lot of ‘ick’ moments

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