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A review by therese_nook68
The Damned by Renée Ahdieh
4.0
4/5 stars
TW: Blood, gaslighting, murder, sexual assault (mentioned off page)
I really did enjoy this book, it's just as immersive and beautifully described as The Beautiful. I loved seeing so many different perspectives from everyone, it was nice to get almost a birds eye view of the different worlds. I loved seeing more and more into the world itself and seeing the different layers.
I loved the characters — they all really went through it during this book and goodness.
I did have a couple of problems with the book, one being really minor and more nitpicky and the other being something bigger to the overall novel. Starting off with the smaller problem, I really didn't understand why everyone BUT Celine was in first person and she was in third. It was a weird detail to have and it really took me out of the flow of the novel at times. The bigger issue was that I think this book suffered from sequel syndrome — there were so many threads going on at the same time that wrapping them all up felt rushed and got harder and harder to follow by the end. I'm sure it'll all come together in the third book, but right now, it's hard to see where it's going to go.
TW: Blood, gaslighting, murder, sexual assault (mentioned off page)
I really did enjoy this book, it's just as immersive and beautifully described as The Beautiful. I loved seeing so many different perspectives from everyone, it was nice to get almost a birds eye view of the different worlds. I loved seeing more and more into the world itself and seeing the different layers.
I loved the characters — they all really went through it during this book and goodness.
I did have a couple of problems with the book, one being really minor and more nitpicky and the other being something bigger to the overall novel. Starting off with the smaller problem, I really didn't understand why everyone BUT Celine was in first person and she was in third. It was a weird detail to have and it really took me out of the flow of the novel at times. The bigger issue was that I think this book suffered from sequel syndrome — there were so many threads going on at the same time that wrapping them all up felt rushed and got harder and harder to follow by the end. I'm sure it'll all come together in the third book, but right now, it's hard to see where it's going to go.