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Every girl and boy in the village of Frey fears the beast who lives in the forest. Ten years ago, the beast was formed from the town's rage - and the evil that lurks inside all people in moments of weakness. Every year since, the townspeople have sacrificed one of their own to appease his anger. This year the sacrifice does not go as planned. A young man saves the chosen girl from fate. She is torn between doing her duty and untangling the identity of her savior and captor. The young man grew up with thoughts of revenge on the town that turned their backs on him, but when he is close to the girl, he is reminded of who he used to be. From once upon a time to happily ever after, the people of Frey will have to rally together to rid the town of evil once and for all, but in the process will they destroy everything that is good in their world?
- Sales Rank: #147763 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-01-08
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 305 minutes
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Substantial immersive short fantasy
By D. B. Rose
This is an immersive fantasy for young adults, but with broader appeal and deeper purpose. It is a relatively quick read, what I would call a long novella or a short novel. The setting is the isolated pastoral village of Frey, which is surrounded by a wild and largely unknown forest.
The key physical feature in the story is a mysterious well in the forest, which the villagers use in an annual cleansing ceremony, as a receptacle of all their ill-will from the past year. The well no longer contains water, but exudes an accumulated dark menace; however, "No one has ever fallen into the well."
The three main human characters are Zosimos ('Zos'), Alcina and Aethon, who are very well depicted. Barnard's writing style is good, easy to read, and a comfortable fit with the content.
The village is strangely isolated (perhaps intentionally), and the Jackal is oddly enormous, at least in my impression. But this is a fantasy.
It's a great story. There is drama, there is a mysterious beast of the forest which the villagers perceive as a destructive enemy and which they try to appease by offering an annual sacrifice. There is romance and tension. There is love, there is quick judgement and rejection, there is the eternal struggle of conflicting human emotions. The characters are endearing, particularly Zos and Alcina. There is the sway of influence between the chaotic forest and civilized village life. The story grips, the characters struggle with themselves and with one another, and with the revelation of buried truths.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
This fairy tale was a struggle
By BondiBookgirl
I was drawn to this story by an excerpt, which I thought had a sense of darkness and ritual. I was intrigued by the concept of a well that absorbed the bad thoughts and intentions of the town’s people, and then the idea of what would happen to a good person who fell into that well and absorbed the badness.
Unfortunately, the concept and the idea were the highlights of “At One’s Beast”. I do think there’s a story in here, but the plot and the characters need more work to bring it out.
Once Zos has fallen into the well and it collapses, nothing seems to change in the town. The people have no outlet for all those bad thoughts, yet things go on as before. Shouldn’t there have been an outpouring of evil? The townspeople seem far more narrow-minded, selfish and weak than evil.
Then comes the beast. Initially, it seems that “the beast” is the dark, evil force responsible for what happened to Zos. (“that poor boy who’d fallen into the well so many years ago and was killed by the beast.”) But then “the beast” takes a tangible form: “The calamity that befalls us when we don’t adhere to the yearly sacrifice is devastating to the town. He plunders and destroys.” However, if Zos is “the beast”, as we are led to believe, he did no more than steal housing materials: “It had taken Zos quite a few raids to gather enough materials to help build his little house in the middle of the woods and quite a few more raids to find its meager furnishings.” Yet, the townspeople send a child into the forest each year to appease the beast. They sacrifice their children to prevent the theft of timber and bedsheets? (Yes, Zos has sheets on the bed in his not-so-humble house in the forest.)
The jackals puzzled me, too. Apparently, their horns (jackals with horns?) have strange, magical powers, which are never explained. “As he opened his mouth for breath a tiny particle of orange was pulled in and tickled his throat. He coughed and some of the tension in his tendons was re-directed. He spat out the orange sliver.” And…? What was so great about the orange sliver? What effect did it have? Where was the tension redirected?
I still have no idea why the jackals followed Zos and Aethon into the town, other than to act as a plot device by which Zos saves a young girl and is forgiven and welcomed back. From beast to hero in one simple step. They forgive him, he forgives them, Alcina conjures up some hitherto-non-existent power to dispel the evil and anger, and they all live happily ever after.
The three main characters (Zos, Alcina, Aethon) seem to drift through their interactions with each other. They think a lot. They veer from yes to no, from liking to hating, they wallow in angst, and then instead of dealing with a situation they storm off in a huff or bound into the forest.
The erratic plot and flat characters could be forgiven if the writing itself was a joy to read. Alas, it is not. There are occasional evocative sentences, but the telling of this fairy tale is sprinkled with jarringly modern Americanisms: bop, freak out, guy, critter, product of his environment. I had to reread a number of phrases because they made no sense, were awkward, or invented new meanings for words. Here is a small sample, verbatim:
- she immediately thought to abandon her imprisonment as soon as she could
- it advanced with superior steps
- agony playing with his face
- the baby jackal trounced up
- a circus of flustering
- as soon as the deplorable sight of iron was in sight
- shagging off the dirt from himself
- watched her breath bow the particles down to her mighty wind
- an even layer of molars that craved jaggedness
- let his terrorizing out on the man-made prison
- yelped a short reverse hiccup
This short YA fantasy novel may well appeal to young readers or to adults who don't tend to analyse what they read.
(note: I was given this novel in exchange for an honest and non-reciprocal review.)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Great!
By Rob May
At One's Beast is a well-constructed take on the dark fairy-tale genre. It's got all the right ingredients: a beleaguered town surrounded by monster-haunted forests, long-forgotten secrets, and a brave main character who must survive though her wits and strength of character. Alcina's bravery is highlighted in the opening chapters, as she challenges her fate as a human sacrifice; her compassion is revealed in the mid-section, as she comes face-to-face with the beast of the forest; and at the end her fairness and inner strength are revealed as she fights for what she believes in, and tries to resist the temptations of evil.
The story is well-paced, taking its time to develop its world and characters with evocative language: "The noise came again, closer, like a cat's tail being stepped on underwater, echoing and eerie." But just as you think you may have the plot figured out, new complications arise, and the drama rises to a finale that threatens twists and tragedy. I always like to see a story where the whole picture isn't rounded out until the final line, and At One's Beast satisfies in this respect.
Criticisms - the point of view flips around maybe a little too often. Later in the book, we are flashing between three characters who are sharing the same scene. At least one of the three seems redundant. And for a story that I imagine taking place in an isolated village in the middle of some dark old-world European forest, there are quite a few Americanisms – “Give me a holler" and "Whatever", and the children of Frey (who I imagine would grow up to be farmers and crafters) seem to attend a modern American high school, with science classes and recess.
It's a great story despite this points, though, and I'd like to see a longer fantasy series by Rachel Barnard.
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