TY - BOOK AU - Van Arsdale,Peternelle TI - The beast is an animal SN - 9781471160455 (pbk.) : U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Fantasy fiction KW - Young adult fiction KW - Older Teenage Fiction KW - ukslc KW - Fantasy/Magic N2 - Alys was seven when the soul eaters came to her village. These soul eaters are twin sisters who were abandoned by their father and slowly grew into something not quite human, something that needs to feed on souls to survive. Alys and all the children in her village were spared by the twins, but having lost their parents and elders the children were sent to live in a neighbouring village. Afraid of facing a similar fate, the villagers in the childrens' adopted home created a strict world where good and evil are as fundamental as the nursery rhymes children sing ER -