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When I first saw The Beautiful appearing on social media, I was curious. It's about vampires and I really wanted to go back in the days and read a good young adult novel about vampires. All reviews I've read were glowing, so I decided to go ahead and read it.
The Beautiful started of interesting. Celine just arrived in New Orleans after fleeing her home in Paris. What has she done that she even had to flee? The next chapter was a weird one however. It's about a girl, Noémie, but she doesn't make another appearance at all in the rest of the book. Why? What? Huh? How?
Unfortunately, The Beautiful is not the young adult vampire novel I was hoping for. In fact, it was just revealed in the final chapters that its about vampires although we all knew it from the promotions. The Beautiful is more of a murder mystery and historical fiction combined.
I couldn't enjoy this book. Actually, I was super bored whilst reading. The characters and the murders didn't interest me at all. I was not curious to find out who the killer was. I really didn't like Celine and her inner monologues, there were way too many of them. Although the story was super slow, I could read it fast because of the writing. However, I was very relieved when I finished the book. The final chapeters were the most interesting, but it was too late to save this book for me. Unfortunately, another hyped 2019 release I don't like. I probably won't continue this series.
This review was originally posted on Laurie's Bookshelf
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- 3 November, 2019: Finished reading
- 3 November, 2019: Reviewed