A
Beautiful Evil
By
Kelly Keaton
Myth and
mayhem inhabit a richly reimagined New Orleans in this sequel to Darkness
Becomes Her. After the epic graveyard battle at the end of Darkness Becomes
Her, Ari and her friends know what they’re up against: Ari is facing the Medusa
curse and is haunted by the image of what she will become. To make matters
worse, the heinous goddess Athena has kidnapped young Violet and is threatening
to destroy Ari.
Ari, along
with the superhot Sebastian, is doing everything she can to learn more about
Athena and to get Violet back. But the battle of good and evil is bigger than
she realizes, and she’s about to be pulled into a world more horrific than she
could ever imagine...
This
is the second book in Keaton’s Gods & Monsters series, it continues where
the first book Darkness Becomes Her left off. Ari has started training at the
academy and is preparing herself for when she meets Athena the next time, she
intends to get Violet and her father back and take Athena down. As the story
progresses she does get more than one chance to overtake Athena. However,
Athena has a new plan up her sleeve and she uses Sebastian as a new pawn in her
game, which leads Ari to make some very hard decisions that may determine the outcome of their entire relationship.
This
addition to the series provided more insight to some of the characters while
introducing some new faces as well. I was disappointed that Violet was again
left a mystery but I found the part of Athena’s back-story to be interesting
and I was very intrigued by Henri’s little secret. This novel also shed light
on Sebastian’s true self and his relationship with Ari. Both characters are put
through significant trials and I was thrilled with the way they both handled
each situation.
Unfortunately the book as a whole disappointed me. I found it to
be slow paced yet also filled with entirely too much action. I know that seems
impossible but Ari kept going after Athena with no plan in place and just thought
she could get lucky overcome the Goddess. Each time she failed miserably she turned right around without a plan and went after
Athena no better prepared than she was the last time. This made me think of her
as extremely immature and though I know this was a fantasy novel it still felt
rather silly and unbelievable to me. I am not sure at this point if I will
continue reading the series or not.
Much like the first book, I recommend this book to those that
enjoy retellings of Greek mythology with a little paranormal fantasy thrown in.
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