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sam_riccio 's review for:
The Damned
by Renée Ahdieh
A little all over the place.
I get that as a second book in a series of 3-5 books you have to build up to things and so you have to add more to the story but there were some bits of this that didn't sit well with me.
It was predictable in the ways that we all knew it would be and then more.
Celine meeting her mother wasn't expecting that. The guy from France? Kind of expected because she just kept bringing it up and why bring it up if you're not going to do something with it? Celine settling for Micheal and then ditching him for Sebastian as soon as she could? We been knowing.
I really thought that in the start when we got so much from Odette we would be getting her full backstory. We would be learning about her time with Nicodemus. I thought we would know more about Madeleine and Hortense but we get fed crumbs and then get more Sebastian story that we pretty much knew of?
But instead we get them wanting to kill Jae, Madeline almost dying, and then Odette dying. The whole point of this began with Emillie being the main villain and now she'a dead as well so who is there left for us to fear? The Lady of the Viel? Pippa, who is apparently hiding some big secrets?? Micheal, who's going to be turned into the worst kind of person because he got rejected?
We have a long way to go from being done with this series so maybe #3 will wow me more than this one did.
That isn't to say this didn't wow me it was just underwhelming compared to the drama of The Beautiful.
I get that as a second book in a series of 3-5 books you have to build up to things and so you have to add more to the story but there were some bits of this that didn't sit well with me.
It was predictable in the ways that we all knew it would be and then more.
Celine meeting her mother wasn't expecting that. The guy from France? Kind of expected because she just kept bringing it up and why bring it up if you're not going to do something with it? Celine settling for Micheal and then ditching him for Sebastian as soon as she could? We been knowing.
I really thought that in the start when we got so much from Odette we would be getting her full backstory. We would be learning about her time with Nicodemus. I thought we would know more about Madeleine and Hortense but we get fed crumbs and then get more Sebastian story that we pretty much knew of?
But instead we get them wanting to kill Jae, Madeline almost dying, and then Odette dying. The whole point of this began with Emillie being the main villain and now she'a dead as well so who is there left for us to fear? The Lady of the Viel? Pippa, who is apparently hiding some big secrets?? Micheal, who's going to be turned into the worst kind of person because he got rejected?
We have a long way to go from being done with this series so maybe #3 will wow me more than this one did.
That isn't to say this didn't wow me it was just underwhelming compared to the drama of The Beautiful.