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

dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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iā€™m actually so sad i didnā€™t like this more. this was one of my most looked forward to reads. iā€™ve been hanging to read this since 2023, and to not like itā€¦. :(
iā€™m going to be honest ā€” i had a lot of issues whilst reading this. i reserve 1-star ratings for books i positively despise, but honestly i canā€™t say what has bumped this up to 2-stars. i canā€™t think really of a single thing i liked. i guess i enjoyed the ā€œfemale rageā€ type of aspect to laure? the fact sheā€™s not a perfect MC was nice. the fact she wasnā€™t a shoe-in Y/N who was perfect at everything was nice to see, and the fact she didnā€™t really make apologies for getting what she wanted, however she did so, was also fun.
nowā€¦ onto my list of grievances.
  1. laure is so flat. she is not interesting. her only personality traits are her talking about the ballet, talking about being evil, and talking about getting revenge. she has no deeper substance. only really in the last chapters did she face any real character development.
  2. the other characters are somehow even more flat than the MC. andor is probably the best written, but even then he feels generic. josephine, ciro, everyone at the ballet, etcā€¦. nobody was giving me anything
  3. the pacing was so off for most of the book. like why was the climax of the story finished with 30% left, then ANOTHER conflict arises and is dealt with in like two chapters, then the ending showing how the characters have changed was rushed. like why does one major conflict end with laure waking up. and then the rising action built up in said conflict just fizzles away as it doesnt automatically continue from when laure wakes up ! what is going on
  4. there is no plot. the plot is for laure to do x at the ballet. and then she does. and then that is repeated like 4 times with almost verbatim dialogue, inner thoughts, resolution, etc. and then outside of that with acheron, the story has laure fucking about, then something happens, and then she fucks around a bit more, and then the resolution to all her questions is handed to her on a silver platter. like what???? why was the villain the one to tell laure their plan(s). the story focused so much on laure working out this ā€œmurder mysteryā€, and she did a terrible job! 
  5. everyoneā€™s motivations in this were stupid. everyone in this story minus laure felt like they were going about the story with earplugs in and a blindfold. i get that ur characters need to be to some degree dumb, or else the plot would be over too soon, but my god, the decisions being made in this book wereā€¦. bad. unrealistic.
  6. because the plot was unrealistic, the dialogue felt unrealistic. i could not get immersed in this at all, because i was constantly reminded of the multitude of issues plaguing this book.
sigh. i really would rather not have to point out all the issues i have with a book. iā€™d much rather sit here and be annoying and gush over the smallest things. but not even my immense want to love this book, i could not. 
i cannot give you a good reason why i continued this. and also i cannot explain why i will read the next book. honestly i canā€™t even say im invested in what happens to laure. maybe its because i have hope the second book will be better? who knows. certainly i dont. 
damn im annoyed i didnā€™t like this
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