You’re not allowed to feel better because she kills a potential rapist – she’s a bad person who kills innocent people. When she gets older, her interactions with her victims start to become overtly sexual, but none of them ever do anything without her consent. She’s a serial killer and what’s more she her victims are mostly lonely children who were just reaching out to another loner in the hope of making a friend. Unlike most YA protagonists I’ve read, Maren is undoubtedly a monster. Not weird per se, but it certainly puts a different spin on the usual tale of a teenager discovering herself. Well, this was certainly something different. Along her impromptu road trip, she meets other cannibals like her, and tries to come to terms with being a monster. Not knowing what else to do, Maren decides to track down her father, who she suspects is also a cannibal. The day after Maren’s sixteenth birthday, her mother abandons her. Her mother has become an expert at packing up their things and getting out of town as quickly as possible, but the strain eventually becomes too much for her. She avoids making friends, but then some boy – it’s almost always a boy – tries to get close to her and she devours him. There’s a hunger inside of her that she cannot control and no matter how many times she tells herself she’s not going to do it again, she inevitably does. Source: eARC from the publisher via NetGalley
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