Rhea, Darby and Mary Beth are navigating their way through motherhood when the unexplainable happens. Preschoolers at Little Academy develop a rare medical condition in which they start to crave the taste of blood. To make matters worse, the dead body of the preschool teacher is found, along with tiny foot prints in the blood. The book goes through the challenges of motherhood and begs to ask the question, “how far would a mother go to protect her children?”.

Preschoolers develop this vampsirtic condition. They don’t have pointy teeth, have an adversion to garlic, or burn at the sight of holy water. These four year olds suddenly just crave the taste of blood. The only thing that will curb their behavior is a little sip of the red stuff. I believe this was a brilliant plot, one that I haven’t read before. 

The overarching theme of this book is motherhood. The audience it’s conditioned for is mothers. Mothers will bleed theirselves dry (quite literally in this book) for their children. They give everything up for their kids. Mother’s don’t get a sick day, they don’t get many breaks, and their main obligation is to be a good mother. This isn’t to denounce anything about a father, because there are really great fathers out there, this is just the main theme of this book. I believe I enjoyed this book more because I am a mother. I really resonated to a lot of the difficulties these three mothers face in “Cutting Teeth”. 

The narrator did a wonderful job on this audio. I would recommend this to a mother who is looking for a gory, horror read.