Maren holds other people at a distance, for their own safety. Those who show her affection--a babysitter, a boy at camp, the son of her mom's boss--disappear. Down Maren's gullet. As a result, she and her mom have moved a lot, but when Maren turns 16, her mom moves without her. On her own, Maren sets out to find the father she's never met, and along the way discovers that there are others like her. This is good news--but it's also a terrible, dangerous revelation. 
 Very fast read, hitting all the right notes of a coming-of-age finding-oneself story, but mixing in elements of horror and dread and young love and lust. Maren's voice comes right off the page, and while at times she seems older and more resourceful than 16, her emotions remind us that she's a still teenager who's had to grow up quickly to deal with the reality of who--and what--she is. 
 TEENAGE GHOULS. Seriously, do I even need to use more words than that to sell you on this?