Honestly, I don't understand how these books are being published. The Beast is an Animal sounded amazing but just didn't come through. I mean, come on, soul eaters, a Beast, and a haunted forest - what could go wrong?
A lot.
The main character, Alys, is thankfully not a whiny tween but her awkwardness is hard to believe given her life experience. I found the twin sisters intriguing but their chapters were painfully short and couldn't make up for the time I spent with the mundanes.
This book could have been great, really, but there was little development where it was needed and overdevelopment where it wasn't. Normally, I'm stoked when characters die left and right in interesting ways but that didn't really happen here past the first few chapters.
Then there were the time jumps that occurred in the middle of a chapter for no real reason. Poor pacing jarred me from the story multiple times and I was beyond annoyed by the little "tics" like double ff for everything that started with F.
The Verdict
Again, I'm sure there's a crowd for this book but it is NOT me. I'm not even passing this one on to my daughter when we swap reads so I have to hurry up and read another book before she finishes hers.**Disclosure: this post contains affiliate links. Should you choose to purchase this book from Amazon using the above link, you will not be charged extra but we get a little money back that we use to keep the blog operating!
Next up: Mister Memory by Marcus Sedgwick
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