Review: The Beautiful

Title: The Beautiful

Author: Renee Ahdieh

Page Count: 432

Rating:4/5

Synopsis (Found on Goodreads):

In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to 17-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 in the middle of

the carnival season,

Celine is quickly enraptured by the vibrant city, from its music

to its fancy soirées and even its danger. She becomes embroiled in the city's glitzy

underworld, known as La Cour des Lions, after catching the eye of the group's enigmatic

leader, Sébastien Saint Germain.

Thoughts:

I read this book for an Instagram book club I belong to. If it wasn't for it

being the book club pick this wouldn't have been high on my to read pile. Although

advertised as a vampire type book if you didn't read the synopsis you could just

read the novel as if there was a creepy serial killer on the loose.

Celine is running from her past and trying not to get attached to her new

landing home. A convent to find a husband. She has an attitude that doesn't fit

with the personality of what a young lady should have. That attitude and

adventurous sense has a tendency to land Celine at the wrong place at the

wrong time.

The part that I was intrigued about was this is set in New Orleans. Sebastien

Germain had an aire about him that made me want more of his point of view.

Hoping in The Damned we will get some insight on why he is so broody.

How wrong is it though to get attached to dying things when death seems to

be following her no matter where she runs to hide? I'll be picking up book two when

it releases it just won't be an instant buy to read.

TTFN,

Ashley