Thought Train to Pusan

I actually just heard about this novel from a recent list on Pajiba titled: “ 6 Romance and YA Novels We’d Like to See Netflix Adapt Following ‘To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before’ ”, and upon seeing it described as being about a “magical gay fish boy”, I immediately started text-hollering to my best friend about what a big time it is for fish-people/cryptid… lovers (which is one of our running jokes right now, I KNOW it’s not as funny to anyone that isn’t the two of us). But anyways, I just had to know more. And what I got was a strange mix of magic and escapism, but a lot of realism and emotion too. It didn’t entirely work for me, but it also wasn’t awful either so I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it at the end of the day. Let us dive in: Teeth is told from the point of view of a teenager named Rudy, whose family has recently moved to a small, remote island where people go when they are ill to feed on a specific species of fish which only live there: thes...