![]() ![]() ![]() Buy a discounted Paperback of The Everlasting Rose-The Belles. There were also some plot reveals and twists that felt *very* similar to events that happened in the other books, and I saw one twist coming a mile off for this very reason. Booktopia has The Everlasting Rose-The Belles Series, Book 2, Belles by Dhonielle Clayton. Title: The BellesSeries: The Belles 1Published by: FreeformRelease Date: February 6, 2018Pages: 448ISBN13: 978-1484728499Camellia Beauregard is a Belle. I did like that it was a self-contained story without much of a cliff-hanger ending, but I honestly wouldn’t have minded another 100 or so pages, or even another book to have made this story feel fleshed out. Each of the trials only get a few chapters at the most and I would have loved more detail and more to happen in each one - particularly the first and last tasks which felt barely fleshed out. We hardly know anything about the other 7 competitors in the trials and this makes for low stakes when some of them are eventually killed off. Unfortunately, the whole book felt so rushed (just the same as Book 2 did), which was really disappointing. The plot of The Beauty Trials is really exciting: as the City of Orleans is imploding, an age-old tradition of The Beauty Trials is resurrected to declare the new Queen. ![]() My usual complaint with books is that they are too long, my most used reviewer phrase is ‘needs some editing to cut it down’, so I go very much against the grain by saying that I wanted more from this story. ![]()
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