An interesting look at societal expectations, family dynamics, the patriarchy, and class dynamics. As bodies (or parts of them) start to turn up of children across rural villages a hunt is called to find the creature responsible for it. While tending to their sheep, Joséphine and Clara stumble upon the body of a boy and in one instant make a choice that will shake up the life that they knew. This quickly evolves into our pair recognizing the harm and violence the men of the village (and surrounding areas) have no problem inflicting on the women and girls in their lives. Through many schemes and clever plans they work to try to help a handful of girls escape before it is too late. But of course this cannot be easy and we have creepy power hungry priests, no brained soldiers out to hunt and kill the beast, and powerful men who do not care who is harmed along the way. 
I really appreciated the way our characters have to work through past traumas to find their power and move into the lives that they deserve. It did feel slightly repetitive at times but if this was a book that was your first exposure to feminism and the idea that you can fight back against your oppressors it wouldn’t necessarily feel that way. Knowing this is a YA novel it fills me with hope that folks reading it will realize that just like Joséphine, Clara, Charlotte, Hélène, Eugénie, Louis, and Belle that they do not have to tolerate anyone trying to destroy who they are.