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I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me (I Feed Her to the Beast, #1)
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Black Swan except she makes a deal with the devil to get her talent. Also, there's a hot monster-boy with antlers and the heroine is more than happy to step into the role of the villain while screaming about how everyone is going to pay with her whole chest. Do we stan? We stan.
I FEED HER TO THE BEAST AND THE BEAST IS ME has some pretty ambitious shoes to fill with a blurb that literally compares it to both HOUSE OF HOLLOW and ACE OF SPADES, two of my favorite YA books. But honestly, after reading this book to the end, I'd say that not only is that a pretty apt comp, it's a really solid book.
Laure is a down-on-her-luck ballerina oozing talent who is struggling to keep afloat in her snooty Parisian ballet school. Why? Because racism, classism, nepotism. Anyone would get pissed, but Laure has a take-no-shit personality that makes her even less tolerant to anyone giving her anything less than what she feels she deserves. So when she befriends a girl who takes her down to the catacombs and shows her a whispering river of blood, she doesn't exactly ask too many questions.
It took me a while to get used to this author's unique writing style but once I did, I was hooked. Some reviewers said that this book got a little slow in the last act and I would agree with that, which is why this is a four star review and not a five one, but the ending was AMAZING. Anyone who loves dark fantasy, gothic horror, and morally grey heroines is going to love this one. I will read literally anything else that this author writes, including the sequel. Stan, stan, stan.
4 stars
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bookshelves: poc-interracial, ya-ya-land, horror, doth-the-goth, dark-and-twisted, black-author
Jul 30, 2024
bookshelves: poc-interracial, ya-ya-land, horror, doth-the-goth, dark-and-twisted, black-author
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Black Swan except she makes a deal with the devil to get her talent. Also, there's a hot monster-boy with antlers and the heroine is more than happy to step into the role of the villain while screaming about how everyone is going to pay with her whole chest. Do we stan? We stan.
I FEED HER TO THE BEAST AND THE BEAST IS ME has some pretty ambitious shoes to fill with a blurb that literally compares it to both HOUSE OF HOLLOW and ACE OF SPADES, two of my favorite YA books. But honestly, after reading this book to the end, I'd say that not only is that a pretty apt comp, it's a really solid book.
Laure is a down-on-her-luck ballerina oozing talent who is struggling to keep afloat in her snooty Parisian ballet school. Why? Because racism, classism, nepotism. Anyone would get pissed, but Laure has a take-no-shit personality that makes her even less tolerant to anyone giving her anything less than what she feels she deserves. So when she befriends a girl who takes her down to the catacombs and shows her a whispering river of blood, she doesn't exactly ask too many questions.
It took me a while to get used to this author's unique writing style but once I did, I was hooked. Some reviewers said that this book got a little slow in the last act and I would agree with that, which is why this is a four star review and not a five one, but the ending was AMAZING. Anyone who loves dark fantasy, gothic horror, and morally grey heroines is going to love this one. I will read literally anything else that this author writes, including the sequel. Stan, stan, stan.
4 stars
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Reading Progress
July 23, 2024
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Started Reading
July 23, 2024
– Shelved
July 23, 2024
– Shelved as:
poc-interracial
July 23, 2024
– Shelved as:
ya-ya-land
July 23, 2024
– Shelved as:
horror
July 25, 2024
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5.0%
"I feel like part of the reason I'm so drawn to books about ballet is how utterly focused and vicious ballerinas are always portrayed as. It translates so well to horror or vindictive thrillers."
July 25, 2024
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10.0%
"it. I didn’t see a world for me without my art in it, where I didn’t live this beauty and torment every single day."
July 26, 2024
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20.0%
"“And at what cost?” I snapped, raising the blade between us.
From what must have been the nervousness on my face, she rushed on, “Nothing you aren’t willing to give. A little blood to start the process, a wager to prove you’re serious, and bargain for whatever you want.”"
From what must have been the nervousness on my face, she rushed on, “Nothing you aren’t willing to give. A little blood to start the process, a wager to prove you’re serious, and bargain for whatever you want.”"
July 26, 2024
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22.0%
"But in the morning, I’d force Joséphine to explain everything: the red-stained grotto and the red-stained river, the red-stained boy who was born out of the red-stained monster."
July 30, 2024
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40.0%
"Andor climbed to his bare feet and moved deftly around the firepit. With his bushy, curly hair decorated with flowers and his white shirt billowing, the mask of refinement that he donned for the gala had evaporated. Standing before me was someone wilder, as feral as his human face was beautiful."
July 30, 2024
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51.0%
July 30, 2024
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55.0%
"He was a boy hiding away in a pocket of unreality, binding himself again and again to the eldritch god we hardly understood."
July 30, 2024
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63.0%
"He leaned against the parking sign, one long arm holding his cigarette aloft. Under the full moon, he really was mesmerizing."
July 30, 2024
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77.0%
"“Get ready for me at my worst!” I screamed into the forest canopy, craning my head back, sending birds flying."
July 30, 2024
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81.0%
"“It asks for bones, you know. I ripped out some of my teeth to keep you safe.”"
July 30, 2024
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86.0%
"“What if I told you I wanted to be my most monstrous self all the time? What if I wanted to be a god? Would you pray to me?”"
July 30, 2024
– Shelved as:
doth-the-goth
July 30, 2024
– Shelved as:
dark-and-twisted
July 30, 2024
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Finished Reading
July 31, 2024
– Shelved as:
black-author
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Jul 30, 2024 08:15PM
I’m so excited to read this one! I will get around to it soon 😅
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Sarah wrote: "I’m so excited to read this one! I will get around to it soon 😅"They have a very unique writing style and such a knack for gothic atmosphere! I hope you enjoy it!
