A review by ong
Dark Beauty by C.M. Owens

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

4.5

the moment i read “”But I bet she doesn’t know who killed her parents, does she?”” i wanted to gauge my eyeballs out. if i have to go through another ‘oh no the love of your life is actually guilty of all your pain and suffering, and they kept that from you! don’t you feel SOOO betrayed now?’ trope i will actively resurrect c.m. owens and make her rewrite the whole thing, respectfully. but thank god it was just his evil mom.
throughout the deadly beauties trilogy, i don’t know how many times i highlighted something and wrote ‘bitch you better be joking’. probably more than 20 times each book. of course, it’s the same with this one.
before i found out this addition to the deadly beauties trilogy exist, i was going to dip my toes into the fanfic-writing pond. i even wrote the prompt already. it was gonna be a self insert oc who’s fated with gage. so when i found this, a scream was scrumpt. it’s like the author wrote this for me. i love her so much and she will be missed everyday.
i kinda hate how gage somehow became even more emo. the line “…let’s face it, i’m cursed. i apparently canmt be with anyone because shit always falls apart at the seams.” irks me so bad. i hate those type of boys so much. like boo hoo cry me a river now just accept the girl who clearly fucking loves you so much and you love so much and just be fucking happy and work ur ass off maintaining that happiness. like it’s really not that hard / complicated ffs. when kimber said her little speech, i feel like she is me. i am her. good for her. he needed to hear that right in front of his face.
also gage being only around 2 centuries old surprised me. i thought he’d be at least 5 centuries old by the way he kept talking of his past and ‘how old’ he is.
as usual, the fighting scenes are amazing even tho they’re a bit confusing for me to follow at times.
the ending of this book is too anticlimactic for me; gavin didn’t die (and gave some of his powers? or all of the one he got from ‘his master’? to zee), and the mysterious cloaked super-powerful figure who’s been leading this from the shadows (quite literally) is still just a cloaked figure with another dark user henchman. i was hoping we’d have more clues to their identity but oh well.
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