“A breeze slouched through the decaying shoji screens: lavender, mildew, sandalwood, and rotting incense. She puts the reader right in the setting, with the sights and the smells coming through clear and vivid. Khaw’s greatest strength is that her prose is highly evocative. The whole group, however, is aware of this and are there for the thrills more than anything else. The house is said to be built on the remains of a bride who had herself buried when her groom passed before the wedding. The narrator Cat and three of her friends, two of whom have recently gotten married, visit a mansion in Japan dating back to the Heian era (794 to 1185 AD). Nothing But Blackened Teeth is author and game script writer Cassandra Khaw’s own swing at the formula. It’s a tried and true formula that’s been played straight, subverted, and twisted in many different ways. The set-up is very familiar :A group of friends go to a house, sometimes in an exotic setting, and have a party.
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