The Beast is an Animal Book Review
***Spoilers*** Detailed Summary The Beast is an Animal by Peternelle van Arsdale focuses on Alys, a seven-year-old girl who encounters a pair of soul eaters who eat the adult souls of Alys' village, Gwenith. Adult souls have fear, which is what attracts the soul eaters. A travelling merchant, Pawl, meets Alys and helps her and the rest of the children of Gwenith go to a neighboring village, called Defaid, where they begin their new lives with new families. In hearing that Gwenith was attacked by soul eaters, the people of Defaid construct a wooden wall (referred to as "the Gate") around the village and put the Gwenith children in charge of watching for the soul eaters every night. Defaid is a religious village and believes that the soul eaters are related to the Beast, a Devil-like creature. Alys meets the Beast one day when she ventures into the fforest (no, that's not a typo) and is left wondering if she and the Beast are good or bad. The Beast tells her th