{"id":6540,"date":"2019-03-13T07:27:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T11:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booklovingnut.com\/?p=6540"},"modified":"2019-03-12T15:28:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:28:23","slug":"waiting-on-wednesday-the-beautiful-by-renee-ahdieh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booklovingnut.com\/2019\/03\/13\/waiting-on-wednesday-the-beautiful-by-renee-ahdieh\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting on Wednesday : THE BEAUTIFUL by Renee Ahdieh"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTHE BEAUTIFUL<\/a> by Renee Ahdieh<\/a>
\nHardcover, 416 pages
\nOctober 8th 2019
\nG.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers<\/p>\n

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In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans provides her a refuge after she\u2019s forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris. Taken in by the sisters of the Ursuline convent along with six other girls, Celine quickly becomes enamored with the vibrant city from the music to the food to the soir\u00e9es and\u2013especially\u2013to the danger. She soon becomes embroiled in the city\u2019s glitzy underworld, known as Le Cour des Lions, after catching the eye of the group\u2019s leader, the enigmatic S\u00e8bastien Saint Germain. When the body of one of the girls from the convent is found in the lair of Le Cour des Lions, Celine battles her attraction to him and suspicions about S\u00e8bastien\u2019s guilt along with the shame of her own horrible secret.<\/em>
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\nWhen more bodies are discovered, each crime more gruesome than the last, Celine and New Orleans become gripped by the terror of a serial killer on the loose\u2013one Celine is sure has set her in his sights . . . and who may even be the young man who has stolen her heart. As the murders continue to go unsolved, Celine takes matters into her own hands and soon uncovers something even more shocking: an age-old feud from the darkest creatures of the underworld reveals a truth about Celine she always suspected simmered just beneath the
\nsurface.<\/em>At once a sultry romance and a thrilling murder mystery, master storyteller Ren\u00e9e Ahdieh embarks on her most potent fantasy series yet: The Beautiful.<\/em>
<\/div><\/strong><\/strong>Why I’m excited for it :<\/p>\n

one word – VAMPIRES.\u00a0<\/strong>I’ve been craving a really decent YA vampire book since THE COLDEST GIRL IN COLDTOWN by Holly Black. This sounds like it’s going to tick all my boxes for a book and I’m so excited to get my hands on it! Just by watching this book trailer, I know it’s something I need in my life.

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