But to take this beloved character of mine and, like, massacre his soul like this-that is NOT okay.Īnd even more than that, she triggered the EFF out of me. What the cinnamon toast FUCK did she to do my child? That is NOT who we fell in love with in book one.

SHE WASN’T EVEN THE MAIN POV.Īnd here we go. The lack of nourishment for our already conceived and existing child caused it to shrivel and die… all in the name of making sure there were enough nutrients for another child, another being that literally didn’t exist.Īhdieh made it so we got another two books with other characters instead of taking care of the first book she had already written, made a lottt of people fall in love with, and let Bastien and Celine’s story just…what even happened? Celine legit was barely in this book. This book, simply put, is the child to a mother who yearned for so much more world expansion so as to ‘have another child’ there wasn’t possibly any way to sustain the child that already existed, to possibly survive on its own. The easiest way I could think of to explain this abomination of a story is as simple as this:

I do NOT like bashing a book even remotely connected to another book I adore….let alone in the same series. That is the only kind of love worth having.” “And real love may be a choice, but I plan to choose someone who steals the breath from my body and haunts my very dreams. And just as Bastien and Celine begin to uncover the danger around them, they learn their love could tear them apart. And she doesn’t know she has inadvertently set into motion a chain of events that could lead to her demise and unveil a truth about herself she’s not quite ready to learn.įorces hiding in the shadows have been patiently waiting for this moment for centuries. Still recovering from injuries sustained during a night she can’t quite remember, her dreams are troubled. But Celine has also paid a high price for loving Bastien. The treaty between the Fallen and the Brotherhood has been broken, and war between the immortals seems imminent. New York Times bestselling author Renée Ahdieh returns with the second installment of her new sumptuous, sultry and romantic series, The Beautiful.įollowing the events of The Beautiful, Sébastien Saint Germain is now cursed and forever changed.

The damned by renee ahdieh