Speculations on the Beast

[jayzee]

Not that I'm saying I want it to be Barrons, considering the way it ends ...BUT, Barrons has always said that HE would never let her die. If the beast is IYD ...her last hope if she's dying ...than wouldn't it make sense for Barrons to be the beast, the one thing left to save her.

I don't know ...I'm with Vic, my HEAD HURTSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[Viking Princess]

Maybe it's a unisexual beast :) It screamed Alina to me as well.

Yes, because a hermaphrodite Alina who has crawled out of the grave in Ashford she was buried in for the soul purpose of peeing rings around her sister and attacking threats would not be just a tad bit jumping the shark.

sorry for the sarcasm but it struck me a little funny when I actually considered that.

I don't think Alina is coming back.

[Esther Marie]

I do agree...to a point. LOL

I guess this also stems from me assuming that there will be a "Big Reveal" when it comes to feelings between Mac and JZB, you know? And that might be a cliche (or "trite"--ha ha, that was in honor of both Vic and the book) assumption.

...and, no, I don't think Alina is coming back, either. I just equivocate Mac's idea of "losing everything" with Alina...as that's what it's been up until now. And the "Now" part of "Now I'd lost everything." I dunno...I'm still thinking family member.


And, no. I CAN'T explain the peeing. Very JZB-like, though, I agree! Dammit!:)

[RedBecca]

Yes, because a hermaphrodite Alina who has crawled out of the grave in Ashford she was buried in for the soul purpose of peeing rings around her sister and attacking threats would not be just a tad bit jumping the shark.

OMG, literally LOL. And I agree.

p.s. You had me at "peeing rings around her sister"

[breezygirl5300]

I'm soooo conflicted about all this. If the beast was Barrons, then why would Ryodan tell Mac that he was somewhere else? If it was Barrons, wouldn't he have been trying harder to get Mac out of there? Plus, everything is scared of Barrons. I don't think he would be quite so easy to kill. Barrons just seems too obvious to me but I honestly don't know who else it could possibly be.

[kerinb612]

well, im pretty new to posting, but ill give my two cents anyway :)

the last couple of lines in the book just scream family member to me...i just seems to shocked/greif-stricken, like she reacts when she finds out about alina, i just cant see her reacting that way if it were barrons, i feel like she would be more shocked/CONFUSED, because she just recently decided that the creature under the garage was most definately not barrons. i dont think mac would consider losing barrons to be losing her world. she makes it very very clear in the books that alina/her family are her world. and i think she would only react that way if it were a human she had killed, which she knows barrons is not.

i also think that the fact that she mentions the creature being IYD so so so many times in the last couple pages, that its probably not lol. karen likes to be contrary with us, and make us think one thing for ages before she throws us a rope and lets us know the truth lol

my best guess is that its someone from her past/childhood, that she didnt remember until she saw them again laying there dead. she mentions in dreamfever that she thinks some of her childhood memories have been stolen or removed and she might be getting a couple back when she dreams, so my guess is that its possibly her mysteriously absent birth mother/father/brother/cousinunclegreatunclegrandfather...whatever lol! and she only got her memory of them back after seeing them again?

my gut says it is not the way she would react to killing barrons...i dont think she would think he is killable...i dont think he is killable...lol...and it feels more like a family loss to me...ill be well and truely shocked if its barrons, my gut says no lol

[DebP]

Okay - So I got my book way ahead of you guys and I did a very fast 24 hour read, and have been going back for a slow re-read - and to find points that I remember. There was something, I believe, in the conversation between Mac's parents that made me think that the beast could possibly be her father. I'm going to have to try and find it and re-post.

[flamebow]

. i dont think mac would consider losing barrons to be losing her world. she makes it very very clear in the books that alina/her family are her world.

Yes... but I thought that Mac mentioned that she had started to create a world in Dublin too? I think it is quite possible that it could be Barrons... but who knows!

I also think it could be her father... when the LM had him tied up Mac said he had a wildness in his eyes. The same wildness that the beast had? Ugh, a year is too long to wait!

[bethanyROX]

We are all going nutters trying to figure out WHO the person is....Could it be that maybe once the monster shifted back to human form Mac realized that she knew nothing about her situation and LOST her hope that she would be saved?..IDK....I think the only thing she really had to loose was what was left of herself.....I honestly havent the slightest effing clue....
Maybe we all got lucky and the Beast was Fio lol

[kimab810]

i just cant believe it was barrons. it said somewhere in there that the tattoo was what kept the beast from hurting her. why would barrons tattoo her to protect her from himself???? i am DYING for shadowfever. i read this so fast i will definitely be doing a re read ASAP