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A review by kaulhilo
The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh
1.0
23/9: finally finished this!
i don’t really know what to think - everything from the get go to the utter end was kind of boring and i just couldn’t get into it (despite being so so so excited for this book)..the character’s were definitely....worked hard on, i think? but failed to actually seem full fledged characters and not just cardboard cut outs. i think it’s th setting of the book, maybe, that renee couldnt really incorporate well into the story - and it left everything feeling awkward and blunt. all that said - the ending? what? happened? jesus christ? there should be a warning before just ending a book in that fashion, because for a second i genuinely forgot this was a duology and my brain went 0 to 100 really really really quick. damn.
noting, however, that it IS a duology, the cliffhanger is nothing different from her previous books and one part is very blatantly the exact same as one of her old series. so. there’s that. i don’t know if i’ll read the next book, but yeah. disappointed, for real. lol
original review:
dnf. just can’t get through it lmao it has the worst (most boring) characters i’ve ever come across and the story is quite literally putting me to sleep. so, i’m done for the time being: might give it a shot again in october but who knows? lol. disappointed
i don’t really know what to think - everything from the get go to the utter end was kind of boring and i just couldn’t get into it (despite being so so so excited for this book)..the character’s were definitely....worked hard on, i think? but failed to actually seem full fledged characters and not just cardboard cut outs. i think it’s th setting of the book, maybe, that renee couldnt really incorporate well into the story - and it left everything feeling awkward and blunt. all that said - the ending? what? happened? jesus christ? there should be a warning before just ending a book in that fashion, because for a second i genuinely forgot this was a duology and my brain went 0 to 100 really really really quick. damn.
noting, however, that it IS a duology, the cliffhanger is nothing different from her previous books and one part is very blatantly the exact same as one of her old series. so. there’s that. i don’t know if i’ll read the next book, but yeah. disappointed, for real. lol
original review:
dnf. just can’t get through it lmao it has the worst (most boring) characters i’ve ever come across and the story is quite literally putting me to sleep. so, i’m done for the time being: might give it a shot again in october but who knows? lol. disappointed