Beast Becomes Her
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- USD 10.99
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- USD 10.99
Descripción editorial
Netflix’s Wednesday meets Norse mythology in this gorgeous dark contemporary fantasy following a teen berserkr sent to a secret magical academy where she must unmask the real killer behind the gruesome campus murders or risk becoming the next victim.
Edith has always been a good girl—she has to be, or her foster family might think she’s like her violent father. No matter how much anger simmers inside her, she keeps it buried, hidden…
Until the day she’s pushed a step too far, and that anger comes bursting out in the form of literal claws.
It’s then that Edith learns she’s a berserkr, a descendant of ancient Norse warriors with the ability to turn into animals. To avoid jail for attacking a student, Edith is shipped off to the mysterious Skallagrim Academy. The ancient school is supposedly a haven for people like her, a place where she can learn to control her powers and then push them down so deep that they’ll never come out again.
But someone—or something—is stalking the dark halls of Skallagrim.
On her second night, Edith stumbles upon a gruesome murder and is caught at the scene of the crime by Amund, who is tasked with hunting down wayward berserkir. Now, with Amund suspecting Edith as the killer, she’ll have to catch the real culprit to prove her innocence before she ends up in the hunter’s crosshairs—or becomes the killer’s next victim.
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A traumatized teen learns to harness her ire in this empowering fantasy from Seitz (Inheritance of Scars). Seventeen-year-old Edith and her younger sister have been in foster care ever since Edith, at age seven a decade prior, witnessed her parents' murder-suicide. Fearful of taking after her abusive father, Edith endeavors to suppress angry emotions, but when a flirtatious jock gets aggressive, Edith slaps him and leaves claw marks. Following the incident, the sisters' longtime caseworker, Helga, reveals that they're descended from berserkir, Viking warriors whose wrath facilitated their transformation into animals. To save Edith from assault charges and keep the girls together, Helga brings them to Skallagrim, ostensibly a school for troubled youth, but actually an Icelandic academy for Old Norse magic, or seiðr. Regrettably, on Edith's second night, handsome fellow student Amund—born to hunt berserkir run amok—encounters her moments after she finds a disemboweled young witch. Edith maintains her innocence, but when the body count rises, she knows she must find the real killer to avoid expulsion—or worse. Seitz delivers a rollicking blend of mystery, romance, and horror-tinged fantasy while sensitively exploring weighty topics such as toxic masculinity, female rage, and family violence. The authentic-feeling characters are intersectionally diverse. Ages 14–up.
