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The Damned
by Renée Ahdieh
The Damned picks up where The Beautiful left off. Celine cannot remember anything from the night a serial killer supposedly attacked her. Although, she's having nightmares and experiencing feelings about people and places that seem so familiar. . .But no mere mortal has ever resisted compulsion, especially from Nicodemus Saint Germain. Bastien is adjusting to his new life as a blood-drinker without his love, and he's not taking to it kindly. He's desperate to find a way to reunite with Celine. Will fate be cruel or kind to the star-crossed lovers?
The supernatural world that you got a glimpse of in The Beautiful expands exponentially in The Damned. While I wish the first book hadn't waited so long to reveal the secrets of La Cour des Lions, I enjoyed the broadened range of POVs in this book. Yes, she probably did too many, but honestly, I found many of the side characters to be so much more interesting than the main characters that I didn't care. My main complaint would actually be that there was too much going on in this book. There were so many subplots that I'm not even sure what the main plot was. That being said, I enjoyed this book more than the first one and I'll be interested see what happens next. The narrator, Lauren Ezzo, did a fantastic job yet again of bringing the characters to life. I loved hearing all the different accents - a reminder of the diversity of Ahdieh's 1870s New Orleans cast.
The supernatural world that you got a glimpse of in The Beautiful expands exponentially in The Damned. While I wish the first book hadn't waited so long to reveal the secrets of La Cour des Lions, I enjoyed the broadened range of POVs in this book. Yes, she probably did too many, but honestly, I found many of the side characters to be so much more interesting than the main characters that I didn't care. My main complaint would actually be that there was too much going on in this book. There were so many subplots that I'm not even sure what the main plot was. That being said, I enjoyed this book more than the first one and I'll be interested see what happens next. The narrator, Lauren Ezzo, did a fantastic job yet again of bringing the characters to life. I loved hearing all the different accents - a reminder of the diversity of Ahdieh's 1870s New Orleans cast.