The beast wasn't a terrible book it just wasn't really good, and since i don't like to read i cant read a book that isn't amazing. When i read its only because i have to so if I'm being forced to do something i don't really like to do it has to be a book better than average. The story was actually very interesting but i just found it boring and slow. It was about a man who gets out of jail and returns to his old Harlem neighborhood to find that everyone he use to love and care for has grown up to become either a drug dealer or a drug addict. He learned a lot during his years in jail and decided to try to fix and clean the streets with what he knows from his experience. He went to jail for dealing too so he doesnt want his close ones to make the same mistake as he did so that they dont have to go through what he went through and learn the hard way. I decided to pick up another book when i realized the story wasnt really that hard to predict and everything i was reading i felt like i already read before. I read two other books by walter dean meyers and this one was my least favorite only because it wasnt as exiting as the others.
