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I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

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motz_stick's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A really great read by a promising new author, but I also wished it was longer. A few parts felt rushed and glossed over (see spoiler section. )

The sudden mention of Rose Marie as Josephine’s killer was great for anticipation, but it never felt fully confirmed. Similarly, the anticipation during Coralie’s killing had me gripping the edge of my seat, but it later felt anticlimactic. I would’ve liked to see the ending extended more than some of the repetitive content in the middle where we saw her greed/monstrosity grow. It felt as though killing her best friend didn’t impact her at all, which I could understand considering how Acheron affects her, but then she suddenly dropped that she was affected by it. Similarly, what happened to Rose Marie after she ran off? We learn that Laure is presumed dead yet returns to the ballet to quit, but there’s little mention of the others.

Despite my qualms with the pacing and focus, I really enjoyed this book and I’m looking forward to getting my hands on the second one in the series. The characters, although flawed, are really loveable and the romance is intoxicating. I’m looking forward to seeing more from Shea.

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pastelhxrmony's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

I loved this story all the way through. I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me follows the story of Laure, a ballerina in Paris, as she sacrifices herself to the ballet and an eldritch god and slowly becomes a monster.

*SPOILERS*

The things I liked

Great prose
Absolutely feral main character
Lots of great elements that kept me intrigued
Very good attention to detail, I could visualize the story unfold in my head very vividly

Things I didn’t like

The pacing was a bit rough in some areas but not unbearable.
I found it weird how some details are brought up and never addressed again. For ex, it’s mentioned that Laure had talked to the police after finding Joséphine yet this is never brought up again although it seems important
I also feel like Joséphine died too early and I think she could have been utilized a little longer. It felt like she was set up to play a bigger role imo

Overall an awesome debut. I did enjoy reading very much and I will definitely read the sequel !

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keen's review

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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talonsontypewriters's review

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dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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llams's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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ilaxaria's review against another edition

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dark medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.75

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scrubsandbooks's review against another edition

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dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A highly competitive field with unhinged female characters? Sign me the eff up. It's the "good for her" meme in book format. I've read books featuring ballet before so a lot of the terms were familiar to me but none of it would alienate readers who are unfamiliar especially if you love a good story about teen girls giving in to their dark side and monsters who grant corrupt wishes. Very Black Swan-esque and the narrator, Kristolyn Lloyd did an amazing job putting in emotion into the dialogue.

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