I love a good antiheroine, and Devon definitely qualifies. She was raised in a book-eater family on a diet of stories that reinforced the patriarchy, only to have her first child taken from her. When her second, a son, is born with a hunger for eating human minds, she runs. She’s not going to lose another child — she’s going to protect this boy at all costs, whatever it takes, and survive no matter the cost. It’s a powerful book about the incredible strength of possessive maternal love and the realities of finding a way to survive through trauma.