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Tortured Beasts by Mandy Muse
5.0
adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

 Tortured Beasts by Mandy Muse

“The more I learned about these men, the more I realized they were just tortured beasts, trying to survive in a world that had been against them from the start.”

This is the second book in The Belladona and Her Beasts series. This second book picks up exactly where book one left us on a cliffhanger! Katarina spends this book trying to find ways to break the curse and learn all she can! I loved reading the emotions and feelings of the different characters throughout. However, it did get a little repetitive in the middle.

“As much as I craved her, needed her, felt empty without her, mating with Katarina felt like a cruel joke.”

Watching Aeon and Zev struggle with their feelings for Katarina was so real and raw to read. I loved the fight and passion of the three men, and she made the tension and spice even more fun to read!

This book left on another pretty big cliffhanger, but I’m excited to see how the story will wrap up in the third and final book! Mandy Muse’s writing is always fun and engaging to read! I would highly recommend this series if you are into witchy, wolf shifters, why choose, forced proximity, and enemies-to-lovers tropes!