I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me is divided into four parts - Devotion, Schism, Absolution, Redemption - which are followed by an epilogue, and there's an intriguing exchange at the very beginning designed to draw the reader in as they try to work out who is asking questions like "what do you crave?" and "what would you give for power?" and who is responding. Perhaps the responder is first-person narrator Laure Mesny, who is determined to make it in the cutthroat world of ballet as depicted at the Academy of Paris and will do anything to take centre-stage as would-be dancers audition to perform in Giselle.
Although the writing style is easy to read and the book is perhaps aimed at a young adult audience, the early chapters and certain sections of the novel are chunkier in length than you would normally get in similar titles (and therefore possibly more appealing to grown-up readers). Equally, the detailed descriptions of pointe shoes and ballet moves adds authenticity and enables the reader to be immersed in that setting, while the vivid imagery and characterisation, with one potential antagonist likened to a witch (as well as a vampire with a "drinking blood" reference), is more in keeping with a horror story than a YA one.
Although the writing style is easy to read and the book is perhaps aimed at a young adult audience, the early chapters and certain sections of the novel are chunkier in length than you would normally get in similar titles (and therefore possibly more appealing to grown-up readers). Equally, the detailed descriptions of pointe shoes and ballet moves adds authenticity and enables the reader to be immersed in that setting, while the vivid imagery and characterisation, with one potential antagonist likened to a witch (as well as a vampire with a "drinking blood" reference), is more in keeping with a horror story than a YA one.