I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

Jennifer's body meets black swan. I hate the French but loved this book! Some pacing issues but overall an excellent debut! I'm very excited to read the next

Ballet body horror was not at all a thing I'd have expected to ever find myself enjoying, but I liked this book. This is a shimmering feverdream of a novel - no jump scares here, the frightening bits roll in slowly and organically. Not everyone's topic, but the adventurous stand a good chance at enjoying this.

took some time to get going but when it did... nasty in the best way

wow this was a amazing book and is a debut YA Horror novel.  A deal with a pulsating river of blood you've said more that enough. The payoff is really satisfying and plays to well-established themes throughout: power, rejection, loss, loneliness, betrayal, surrender and retribution. 

Paris isn't my favorite setting and ballerinas aren't my favorite characters, but I was really interested to see how those things fared in a horror book. And Jamison Shea didn't disappoint! The horror is both supernatural and all too normal. It puts everyone's faults on display, so I wasn't sure how it was all going to work out. I would never have guessed the ending! I just keep thinking about it. So good.
I did not love the scenes in the ballet academy, but that is a personal preference.
And one last praise. The audiobook is so freaking good! It helped me visualize the book and create scenes in my head.