Give or take a few punctuation marks, Sharp Teeth could just as easily have been written in prose, though that would have resulted in a far slimmer volume. Much will be made of the book's form - it's told in free verse - but that seems like a gimmick here. Toby Barlow's briskly entertaining first book, Sharp Teeth, aims to put lycanthropes first in the supernatural sweepstakes, with a narrative as relentless and powerful as a pitbull's jaws. Werewolves have always been the underdog, despite high-profile lycanthropes in the Harry Potter books and Stephenie Meyer's popular Twilight series for young adults. Vampires have been the ascendant pop monster ever since Anne Rice's 1976 bestseller Interview with the Vampire.
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