Fever's Barrons as the Beast in Beauty and the Beast (?)
Jericho Z Barrons. Beast? Definitely. Beauty's Beast? Let's Assess. Here's a question that I'm sure is plaguing us all: How do we process the beast characters that don't act very Beauty-and-the-Beastly? Ha! Our fairytales love the Beast who fits the mold - alpha hero, alpha anti-hero, badass beast with an honor code. But what about beasts that don't have a squishy center? In the Fever series, author Karen Marie Moning has created one of my favorite supporting alpha male characters - Jericho Z Barrons. He's enigmatic, powerful, primal, and a rather non-anti-hero. Barrons is unapologetically Barrons. It's refreshing - he's not trying to develop - he's static, and the perfect foil for a spazzy, freshly-minted, resourceful southern belle. How would he measure up against the traditional Beast from the original Beauty and the Beast fairytale ? Jericho Z Barrons as the Beast in Beauty and the Beast Let's consider how Barrons would compare ...