Beast

I've never met a Myers book that I didn't love, but this one just seems ... off ... to me. I don't know what my problem with it is, exactly, but let me think it out: 1. The main character, Anthony "Spoon" Witherspoon is a black kid from Harlem with rich parents who send him to a Connecticut boarding......more

I expected a lot more from this book than it gave me. Starting on the first page, I knew the book was going to have some ups and downs throughout it. But, I didn't expect it to be so dry. This book shows how drugs 'the beast' can turn your life upside before you know it. Although the book wasn't my......more

The Beast might sound like a scary book maybe about something haunted or a monster, or maybe someone who thinks there a beast at doing something in their life. But this book is a little bit different than that, so just keep reading this review, and it will make you want to get the book and read it. T......more

I must say that I really enjoyed reading The Beast. The story takes place in the city of New York so for a southern girl like myself of course it was a bit different for me to get use to the events which occurred in the text. I usually gravitate towards books of this kind, one where there is drama i......more

Anthony Witherspoon goes away to finish out school at the Academy where he is removed from Harlem and life on the streets. After being gone for only a few months Anthony “Spoon” visits his high school love, Gabi, only to find she is more distant from him than he could have imagined. “She seemed so d......more