The Beautiful
Ratings35
Average rating3.6
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Ratings35
Average rating3.6
In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans is a safe haven after she's forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris. Taken in by the sisters of the Ursuline convent, Celine is quickly enraptured by the vibrant city becoming embroiled in the glitzy underworld, known as La Cour des Lions, after catching the eye of the group's enigmatic leader, Sébastien Saint Germain.
When the body of one of the girls from the convent is found in Sébastien's own lair--the second dead girl to turn up in recent weeks--Celine must battle her attraction to Sébastien and suspicions about his guilt along with the shame of her own horrible secret.
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3 primary booksThe Beautiful is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2019 with contributions by Renée Ahdieh and Renée Ahdieh.
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I really liked The Beautiful! The writing is absolutely amazing, even though the pace was slow at times, I did enjoy the plot, the characters and that ending... did not see that coming! There's a lot of questions that I hope are answered in the next book.
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After reading the “Wrath and the Dawn” and absolutely falling in love with the series, I bought this book as soon as I saw Renee's name on the cover! This was a very enjoyable read. Honestly, this is what the Twilight series should have been! I love the mystery and the setting of this story, but I did feel like the characters could be a bit one-note. They weren't as well developed as the characters from “The Wrath and the Dawn” series, which was disappointing because that was my favorite part. I still enjoyed the read and there is still some mystery to be solved in the next books, so this might be rectified in book 2.
Truly enjoyed this book. Started a bit slow, but it's everything I wanted when I heard of the premise being about vampires and New Orleans.
Once again I loved this book up until the VERY END when it fell prey to the siren song of the OPEN ENDING (a cliff hanger at that?!) so the author could turn this into a damn series. Ugh. Spare me.
