Greenteeth by Molly O´Neill

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

Published: February 25, 2025 by Orbit

Fantasy/borrowed

Jenny Greenteeth lives in her lake. She cleans her lake, she eats fish, if a person falls in yum, if a kid drowns...well then she got a daughter to become a new Jenny. And centuries pass, until a witch falls in...

Temperance has the misfortune to live in a bad time, and there is a new priest who is an ahole and gets the congregation into a frenzy and there goes Temperance into the lake.

But in the end Jenny does not eat her, and they become allies. Because something is wrong in that village.

There is an adventure, a quest, more Fae/fairies/creatures to meet, and real friendship blooms between a hag and a witch.

I enjoyed it. Though it was rather too cozy, sometimes I like cozy, sometimes I want blood. You never know.

Beneath the still surface of a lake lurks a monster with needle-sharp teeth. Hungry and ready to pounce. Jenny Greenteeth has never spoken to a human before, but when a witch is thrown into her lake, something makes Jenny decide she’s worth saving.

Temperance doesn’t know why her village has suddenly turned against her, only that it has something to do with the malevolent new pastor. Though they have nothing in common, these two must band together on a magical quest to defeat the evil that threatens Jenny’s lake and Temperance’s family – as well as the very soul of Britain.