Cassidy Serhienko God bless you Renée Ahdieh. I mean really, a new novel about VAMPIRES in NEW ORLEANS, and a love interest of QUESTIONABLE MORALITY who wears a QUIRKY HAT?! That’s basically everything good in the world all rolled into one book. Vampire books have become so overrated that they’re underrated. I said what I said. So calling all authors, YA or otherwise, more hot vampires please. And is there a better setting for a vampire, mystery, murder novel then New Orleans? I think tf not. Sébastien is hot, Celine is a straight up disaster and I live for it. I will say, The Beautiful probably isn’t as lush as Ahdieh’s other novels - it’s hard to beat The Wrath and the Dawn after all. But I honestly feel that this gives the sequel a better chance of competing with the first book. Both of the relationships in the other duology’s fell a little flat in their sequels. After so much development and angst in the first books, the romances just didn’t hold up. But in The Beautiful there isn’t actually that much time spent on Sébastien and Celine as a couple. Sure they spend a lot of time noticing how beautiful (get it?) the other is, but they don’t really do anything about it. The sequel has been set up to really build them up together, as well as the actual vampire mythology. All is not revealed until the very end of the book, and so the sequel has more to explore than just the answer to a real jerk of a cliffhanger. And also, Celine’s whole “dark secret” wasn’t all that dark. Pretty sure if you told you’re besties who are WOMEN who have clearly all been screwed over by some assholes that you killed your would-be rapist in self defence, they’d get it. Like sure, flee Paris and don’t go blabbing about it far and wide, but do you really think Pippa or Odette would ditch you because you defended yourself against some rich predator and you’re not sorry for it? Have a little faith lady. I loved the few chapters we got from Sébastien’s perspective and I hope that that’s something that’s included more in the sequel. I also enjoyed the cast of side characters, who I think were more developed than in Ahdieh’s other books. This was probably my least favourite of Ahdieh’s books, which is disappointing because vampires, and also New Orleans, but I still think it’s worth a read. The magic is not as intricate, but the mystery is still compelling and no one can deny that she’s a master of writing badass heroines. So thanks Renée, because here’s me, once again left impatiently waiting for more romance and more vampires.
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