#BookReview Beautiful Villain by Rebecca F. Kenney @RebeccaFKenney1 @SourcebooksCasa #RebeccaFKenney #BeautifulVillain #GildedMonstersSeries #SourcebooksCasa Title: Beautiful Villain

Author: Rebecca F. Kenney

Series: Gilded Monsters #1

Published by: Sourcebooks Casablanca on Jul. 16, 2024

Genres: Paranormal Romance

Pages: 394

Format: ARC, Paperback

Source: Sourcebooks Casablanca

Book Rating: 8/10

Seven years ago, I lost him for good. Now he’s back, but is he still the Jay Gatsby I used to know…or is he something more? Something…darker.

Daisy Finnegan is looking forward to the endless golden freedom of summer. She doesn’t want to think about life after college, or the newly awakened power of her voice, which has a way of making people do frightening things. But when her cousin goes missing at an exclusive house party, Daisy confronts the mysterious host…only to discover the wealthy recluse is Jay Gatsby, her childhood sweetheart―now sinfully hot and impossible to deny.

It isn’t long before Daisy becomes entangled in a web of dizzying wealth and lies and obsession darker than she could have dreamed―culminating in a shocking act of violence that shatters the summer haze and threatens to drown them all.

But it isn’t until Gatsby is shot through the heart―and survives―that Daisy discovers the truth of how Gatsby clawed his way up in the world by selling the secret of immortality to the highest bidder. Now with her friends’ lives at stake, her own untested power still volatile, and an unimaginable threat closing in, Daisy will have to face an impossible choice: side with the man who claimed her body and soul…or with the monsters who would see him lost to her forever.

An addictive and truly original spicy New Adult retelling of The Great Gatsby with a magical twist.


Review:

Passionate, consuming, and edgy!

Beautiful Villain is an alluring, sinful, highly entertaining paranormal romance that takes you on a journey into the life of Daisy Finnegan, a young woman who, after concerns over the whereabouts of her cousin at a party, stumbles into the one boy who always had a little of her heart and whom she never thought she’d see again, now a man with extreme wealth, power, and deep dark secrets.

The writing is sensual and fluid. The characters are influential, impulsive, and intense. And the plot is a fast-paced, delightfully salacious tale of desire, temptation, mystique, attraction, chemistry, danger, deception, sizzling romance, and the supernatural.

Overall, Beautiful Villain is an intriguing, seductive, sultry tale by Kenney with just the right amount of mystery, sex, unique characters, and bad-boy vibes to keep you engaged from start to finish. It’s the perfect standalone to kick off this Gilded Monsters series, and I can’t wait to read what this group of otherworldly beings manages to get tied up in next.

 

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About Rebecca F. Kenney

Rebecca F. Kenney writes spicy fantasy romance about sassy, strong women and hot guys with tragic backstories... pirates, warlords, demons, Fae, and royals. Her main series are the "Wicked Darlings" series (spicy Fae retellings of the Nutcracker, Wonderland, and Oz), the "Dark Rulers" series (standalones in a shared world), and the "For the Love of the Villain" series of genderbent fairytales. Other books include a post-apocalyptic vampire romance trilogy ("The Vampires Will Save You"), a demon romance "Interior Design for Demons," a dark mermaid fantasy duet, and other spicy retellings.

Rebecca is represented by Eva Scalzo of Speilburg Literary. She lives in upstate South Carolina with her handsome blue-eyed husband and two smart, energetic kids.