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Book review: We Are the Beasts, by Gigi Griffis

Cover of We Are the Beasts by Gigi Griffis, jacket art by Jorge Mascarenhas, featuring a beast's muzzle with bloody fangs coming down from the top, and blood-spattered butterflies flying below.

“I love this book. I love the vividness of its prose, from the immediacy of the opening, when Joséphine is trying to save a lamb that fell partway down a cliff, to her simmering anger at a soldier’s eating three days’ worth of lentils at one meal, to the dread invoked by a swarm of butterflies, and much more.”