I loved this so much, very cool retelling of Beowulf in a modern setting that centers on Grendel and his mother, a war vet, who live in a cave on the edge of a gated community where another young boy lives and him and Gren are friends but then this cop ('Ben Wolf') tries to kill gren's mom etc etc. Extremely interesting and so cool to have the contrast of like war flashbacks to this like Christmas whoville ass town. There is a race and class element as well and its also GAYYYYYYYY (woohoo!)
 
I definitely cried like the whole last fourth of the book. I feel like the ratings for this are not picking up what it's putting down. Also very well written and like the women on both sides are so fierce , there's also a collective 'we' perspective of all these mothers idk I really liked it. 'The girl w the candle in her chest' was so sick