"Crack the Stone" by Emily Golus

Prepare yourself for something very shocking.
I like this retelling of Les Miserables better than the original book by Victor Hugo.
Don't get me wrong -- I LOVE the story of Jean Valjean.  But, you may recall, Hugo's book wearied me when I reread it a couple years ago.  The endless digressions, specifically.  
So I loved how Emily Golus kept her book's focus on the main character in this retelling.  Valshara was a condemned goblin who makes a miraculous escape from her captors and ends up caring fo...