Boys with Sharp Teeth, Jenni Howell
Boys with Sharp Teeth, Jenni Howell
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Boys with Sharp Teeth

Author: Jenni Howell

Narrator: Jennifer Pickens

Unabridged: 11 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/08/2025


Synopsis

We Were Liars meets The Raven Boys in this mind-bending YA debut about dark revenge, twisted desire, and the sinister secrets lurking behind the walls of an elite boarding school.

"A darkly delicious spiral where each page makes you crave more." ―CG Drews, author of Don't Let The Forest In

"A stunningly lush, utterly compelling, darkly beautiful debut!" ―Ginny Myers Sain, New York Times bestselling author of Dark and Shallow Lies

Seventeen-year-old Marin James has spent her entire life living in the shadow of the exclusive Huntsworth Academy. And when her cousin’s dead body is found in a creek on school property, Marin knows exactly who’s to blame: Adrian Hargraves and Henry Wu, the enigmatic yet dangerously alluring leaders of the school's social elite.

Swapping her ripped jeans for a crisp prep school skirt, Marin infiltrates Huntsworth to seek justice. But her quest is quickly muddied by a confusing attraction to her new life, and to the two dysfunctional and depraved boys who somehow understand her better than anyone ever has.

When Marin uncovers an otherworldly secret the boys are hiding within Huntsworth's ivied gates, the lines between right and wrong, love and hate, and nightmare and reality begin to crumble -- and nothing is as it seems.

Welcome to Huntsworth Academy.

A Macmillan Audio production from Roaring Brook Press.

About Jenni Howell

Jenni Howell is the New York Times-bestselling author of Boys with Sharp Teeth. Before becoming an author, she tried out archaeology, linguistics, mongoose herding (known to some as “teaching”), finance, and espionage, but always got bored. Now she writes books, so her entire world changes every six months—and she will never be bored again.

About Jennifer Pickens

Jennifer Pickens is an Earphones Award–winning narrator of over 100 titles. She has been a storyteller since childhood, creating characters to inhabit, and acting out their adventures. A lifelong bookworm, it was her love of books that led to voice acting. Believing that stories can create change and teach empathy, Jennifer crafts honest performances that create an intimate connection between the listener and the text.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Marieke on January 03, 2025

The roaring engines and the tension from Summer Sons meet the mirrors from Beholder in this eerie and thrilling young adult dark academia story. Where Graves is stone and lightning, Henry is softer, slipperier, a boy I’m never quite sure if he’s there to save me or because he likes watching me strugg......more

Goodreads review by Ashleigh (a frolic through fiction) on August 13, 2024

A dark academia for the philosophical folks, Boys with Sharp Teeth is a twisted story of delusion, obsession, love, hate and more. Jenni's writing is a gem to those looking for a dark academia that hits every mark, her style so easily capturing the spiralling obsession of our main quad and how they......more

Goodreads review by Stacey on October 27, 2024

Long-winded and predictable 😭 The cover for this title had me in a chokehold, I was thrilled when I saw a digital ARC available I pounced, unfortunately I was left feeling a bit let down. 👉Also a note for everyone rating based on the sexy (queer, why do so may people think this book is queer?) cover,......more

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany) on January 31, 2025

4.5 stars rounded up If you like your dark academia extremely angsty with morally questionable characters, Boys With Sharp Teeth is perfect. Gothic horror meets The Atlas Six and The Secret History, but make it YA. Philosophy is woven throughout as the characters question good versus evil, the existe......more

Goodreads review by Cody on February 08, 2025

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for an eARC in exchange for a honest review. This one is a really difficult one to rate! The prose was beautiful and atmospheric, I was hooked with initial the mystery, and I really loved Adrian and Henry's characters. I do, however, think that the story's pit......more


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Praise for Boys With Sharp Teeth:

"Boys With Sharp Teeth is the kind of book that whispers terrible secrets in your ear late at night. With each page turn, you'll find yourself struggling to catch your breath as grief, revenge, and obsession intertwine like twisting ivy. This is a stunningly lush, utterly compelling, darkly beautiful debut!" —Ginny Myers Sain, New York Times bestselling author of Dark and Shallow Lies

“In this beautifully crafted, twisted love story, Howell explores what happens when love doesn’t make you better, but in fact makes you worse. These complicated characters have tangled relationships and thorny secrets that make for a truly stunning tale." —Kamilah Cole, indie bestselling author of So Let Them Burn

"Jenni Howell is a talent to watch, and Boys With Sharp Teeth proves it. If you're looking for a devious dark academia book with beautiful prose and shocking twists, you've found it." —Jesse Q. Sutanto, USA Today bestselling author of Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

"With atmospheric tension and a twisted mystery to solve, Boys With Sharp Teeth is a darkly delicious spiral where each page makes you crave more." —CG Drews, author of Don't Let The Forest In

“A taut and darkly lyrical tale of obsession and grief, Boys With Sharp Teeth holds a shadowy mirror up to the lengths we might go to for revenge, with each savage twist compelling you to turn the page long after the lights have gone out.” —Amy Goldsmith, author of Those We Drown and Our Wicked Histories

“Dark academia at its finest! Howell’s debut is a chilling dissection of what it means to be alive with a page-turning mystery that will keep you up at night.” —Rachel Moore, author of Us in Ruins and The Library of Shadows

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Fans of heady, twisty dark academia tales will revel in unpicking this knotty mystery." —Publishers Weekly

“Sings with tension….An intensely dark debut that’s focused on style.” —Kirkus Reviews