WoW: What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo

This bookish meme tells the blogosphere what we’re waiting patiently (and sometimes not so patiently) for! It’s hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine!

MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN MEETS THE ADDAMS FAMILY IN THIS HAUNTING STORY OF ONE GIRL’S ATTEMPT TO RECONNECT WITH HER MONSTROUS FAMILY.

Eleanor has not seen or spoken with her family in years, not since they sent her away to Saint Brigid’s boarding school. She knows them only as vague memories: her grandfather’s tremendous fanged snout, the barrel full of water her mother always soaked in, and strange hunting trips in a dark wood with her sister and cousins. And she remembers the way they looked at her, like she was the freak.

When Eleanor finally finds the courage to confront her family and return to their ancestral home on the rainy coast of Maine, she finds them already gathered in wait, seemingly ready to welcome her back with open arms. “I read this in the cards,” her grandmother tells her. However, Grandma Persephone doesn’t see all, for just as Eleanor is beginning to readjust to the life she always longed for, a strange and sudden death rocks the family, leaving Eleanor to manage this difficult new dynamic without help.

In order to keep the family that abandoned her from falling apart, Eleanor calls upon her mysterious other grandmother, Grandmere, from across the sea. Grandmere brings order to the chaotic household, but that order soon turns to tyranny. If any of them are to survive, Eleanor must embrace her strange family and join forces with the ghost of Grandma Persephone to confront the monstrousness lurking deep within her Grandmere-and herself.

Published by: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux (BYR)
Expected Publication: February 2, 2021

Why I’m Waiting: So when I first saw this cover and title, I was walking and looking at stuff on my phone. I literally STOPPED IN MY TRACKS. You guys know how I feel about re-tellings and YA horror. And this one is BOTH and OMG I’M TOTES LOSING MY SHIT. lol There is never enough YA horror and pairing it with a re-telling is kind of like making it like the original ones that were not Disney-fied and OMG I’M SUPER EXCITED! In other words, you know that “Give it to me now” gif??? Yeah that embodies me right now lol

What about you? Will you be reading this? Do you like horror? Do you like re-tellings? What was the last horror or re-telling that you read? Let me know in the comments!