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

dark 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

I'm not sure what I was expecting. I enjoyed the first 20%, and I really enjoyed the determination of the main character, and then it started slowly going off the rails (not in a good way). I think my issue stemmed from expecting a book closer to movie Black Swan (which it was at the start), and then it devolved and turned into a murder mystery (didn't care) as it went along, with heavy critique about ballet culture (which I appreciated a lot). The writing prose was okay, although some sentences and paragraphs were clunky.

I labeled the pacing as medium, but it is all over the place. The ending is especially a bit of a drag. I didn't see the point in the main romance--there could've been another way to come across that point.
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