Publisher: self-pubbed
Release Date: November 6, 2018 (out now!)
Source of my copy: author
Series: standalone
My rating:
Synopsis
Fresh out of college and headed straight for my dream job, I didn’t think things could get any better.
Then I met my dream man.
In an instant, my happy ever after had begun.
The life I’d stumbled into was beautiful, and the man I loved was perfect.
But perfection comes at a cost, and I’d slumbered through all the alarms.
Then I met my nightmare.
The man whose bright eyes held untamed darkness.
The man who disarmed me with his peculiar behavior.
The man whose cold, merciless hands shook me awake.
In an instant, questions started to dismantle my happy ever after.
But whoever said the truth would set you free was wrong.
It wasn’t going to repair the cracks in my naive heart.
It wasn’t going to caress my face with comforting hands and reassure me it was all just a dream.
No, the truth shoved me down a rabbit hole, and I landed in the lair of a real-life monster.
Bloodstained Beauty is best read if you go into it completely blind--I did and it made my reading experience all the more exciting and kept me reading late into the night.
I have to stay it's a good thing I got my copy of the book during the weekend because I would've called in sick to finish it because I HAD TO KNOW what's going to happen next. I have got to hand it to Ella Fields because she always writes very unique stories where she takes a well known tropes and twists them in unexpected ways.
The story began with a bang and then we got introduced to the major players in the novel. We were getting many lose threads and I was like, where is Ella taking this story? So, I kept feverishly reading and we get our first BIG twist and it took the story in a completely different direction than what I was expecting. But, the turn the story took was fantastic! As we get more information and the threads start weaving together, you finally start to work things out, but just when you thought you figured it out the story takes another turn. I loved being surprised because as a voracious reader of romance, I can often predict what will happen next but not in Bloodstained Beauty--I was left guessing pretty much for most of the book which was great!
I enjoyed all of the characters--some I liked more than others and others I want to kick in the nuts, but they were all interesting on their own. There is this one character I especially loved who was giving me creeper vibes at first, but then they became my favorite in the end. There were some very swoon-y lines in this book, some steamy moments, some dark moments, and also humor. If you're a long time reader of Ella Fields, Bloodstained Beauty is darker in terms of events that happened than her previous books but, trust me, all the things you love in an Ella Fields novel are still there.
My one big issue with Bloodstained Beauty is insta-love so I couldn't give it the full five stars, but it was highly entertaining and I devoured it very quickly. I'm hoping this won't be the last time we see these characters and Ella will write more books set in this world.
I haven't read a book this quickly in a while--I couldn't put it down and basically read it in two sitting! Overall, Bloodstained Beauty was a fast-paced read full of twists and turns that was very entertaining. Pick it up if you're in the mood for a light thriller with a heavy dose of romance.
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