We Are the Beasts

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€ 13.75

ISBN: 9780593707753

When a series of brutal, mysterious deaths start plaguing the countryside and whispers of a beast in the mountains reach the quiet French hamlet of Mende, most people believe it's a curse-God's punishment for their sins.

But to sixteen-year-old Joséphine and her best friend, Clara, the beast isn't a curse. It's an opportunity.

For years, the girls of Mende have been living in a nightmare-fathers who drink, brothers who punch, homes that feel like prisons-and this is a chance to get them out.

Using the creature's attacks as cover, Joséphine and Clara set out to fake their friends' deaths and hide them away until it's safe to run. But escape is harder than they thought. If they can't brave a harsh winter with little food… If the villagers discover what they're doing… If the beast finds them first...

Those fake deaths might just become real ones.

Praise for We Are the Beasts
"Full of courage, heart, and danger, We Are the Beasts is a thoroughly engrossing read about the lengths young women must go to to survive when confronted by beasts of all kinds. I gasped, I smiled, I was enraged--this book is triumphant."--Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Dark Crowns

"Like sharp teeth in the dark, We Are the Beasts takes hold of you and never lets go. A compelling, tense, and thoughtful exploration of what it means to be girls in a world of monsters."--Kiersten White, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

"We Are the Beasts is a love letter to girlhood and a vicious anthem of survival turned up loud. Griffis has deftly woven rage and resistance into the historical French countryside while gifting us bold and tender sapphic heroines who slay the most terrifying of monsters. It's everything YA needs."--Jamison Shea, author of I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me

"With a raw and riveting main character to match the setting, this historical YA horror dives into threats that face young women in 18th century rural France. What is scarier, the beasts among us or the beasts outside us? I flew through the last half of this rollercoaster of a book, and the last act twist does not disappoint."--Wendy Heard, author of She's Too Pretty To Burn