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When I first read The Beast Is an Animal by Peternelle van Arsdale, I wrote a Goodreads review in a flurry of excitement. I wrote passionately and flew through my thoughts and impressions in an effort to capture how thrilled I felt, how impressed, how bowled over. I felt so sure of it, so convinced this beautiful novel would move other readers the way it had moved me, but I knew, too, that a reader should sit with a book, to wait, to see if it sticks, to find out whether it continues to feel meaningful.

Time has passed, and I can promise that The Beast Is an Animal holds up over time, significantly so. I’m as excited about it today as I was months ago, having found myself thinking about it and marveling over it long past the original reading. I’ve recommended it to friends, family, strangers, and to young and not so young readers. This book falls into the YA category, but isn’t limited in any way. Readers of any age will be absorbed by it.

In The Beast Is an Animal, you’ll find suspense, a dark creepiness, a deep sense of seeking and searching, a feeling of what it’s like to look out at the world and then inside oneself and to fear what you might find. You’ll experience the atmosphere and the landscape through Peternelle van Arsdale’s exquisite writing. You’ll feel it. You’ll luxuriate in it and you’ll notice something worshipful about the experience. Read it and tell me if it feels as beautiful, even holy, to you as it does to me.


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The Beast Is an Animal eBook Peternelle van Arsdale Reviews

This was different which in my mind actually means unique. Darkness with beauty and at times haunting. It was such a pleasure reading this and I look forward to reading more from this author. I will recommend this book to friends and family!
I sat down to read this book and did not get up again until I finished (except for answering the call of nature and to grab a blanket when I got cold). Very enjoyable, dark fantasy with a satisfying ending.
Just reading the first page of the sample had me hooked.
Definitely not the same as many others in the genre.
I hated for it to end and can't wait to read whatever comes next.
Definitely on my 'excellent read' list.
This book was great for the first 75%. Then the author tries to shoehorn in a love story at the end with out letting it build and it just doesn’t help the story. If she’d just stuck to the tense, suspenseful slow-burn horror she started with it would’ve been perfect.
It seems Van Arsdale must be a wizard of some sort, to craft a fantasy story that arrives with uncanny metaphors for our times. Besides all that, this is a story to sink into, with your heart, body, mind -- as it sinks itself into your psyche. There's power here, and more. Read it for just the page-turning joy of it, remember it for much more.
I was hooked from the first paragraph, and with every chapter, it became harder to put this fascinating tale down. The story of a young girl's battle of wills against the seductive soul eaters is utterly absorbing. I was immediately drawn to Alys, and to the plight of the other outcast children in the village. Every descriptive line in the book is beautifully written, from the mossy overgrown fforest to the fascinating medicinal herbs that Alys collects with her adoptive mother. The Beast Is an Animal is bound to become a new YA classic.
A pointless main character. In the end, she didn't even do anything.

The most interesting scenes are with the evil sisters, who rarely make an appearance.

Even the title character, The Beast, which really is an animal, doesn't even do anything either.

The antagonist, the two evil sisters, end up just killing each other. The story would have been so much better if it just followed the two soul eating sisters, and the one sisters desire to stop their soul eating ways. Which is ultimately the reason for their very non-climactic confrontation at the end. Like I said, Alys, the main character, and The Beast, the title character, served no purpose.

Also, there's a complete lack of character development.
When I first read The Beast Is an Animal by Peternelle van Arsdale, I wrote a Goodreads review in a flurry of excitement. I wrote passionately and flew through my thoughts and impressions in an effort to capture how thrilled I felt, how impressed, how bowled over. I felt so sure of it, so convinced this beautiful novel would move other readers the way it had moved me, but I knew, too, that a reader should sit with a book, to wait, to see if it sticks, to find out whether it continues to feel meaningful.

Time has passed, and I can promise that The Beast Is an Animal holds up over time, significantly so. I’m as excited about it today as I was months ago, having found myself thinking about it and marveling over it long past the original reading. I’ve recommended it to friends, family, strangers, and to young and not so young readers. This book falls into the YA category, but isn’t limited in any way. Readers of any age will be absorbed by it.

In The Beast Is an Animal, you’ll find suspense, a dark creepiness, a deep sense of seeking and searching, a feeling of what it’s like to look out at the world and then inside oneself and to fear what you might find. You’ll experience the atmosphere and the landscape through Peternelle van Arsdale’s exquisite writing. You’ll feel it. You’ll luxuriate in it and you’ll notice something worshipful about the experience. Read it and tell me if it feels as beautiful, even holy, to you as it does to me.