![]() ![]() Now, the biggest problem for me with this book is the pacing. Celine doesn’t know who she can trust, or even if she’ll survive the next morning. Panic ensues, more bodies are found torn apart as if by something not of this world, and Celine finds herself as the next target of a serial killer. As Celine battles her feelings for Sebastian and the ghosts of her own past, a body of one of the girls from Celine’s convent is found dead, and drained of blood in the lair of the La Cour des Lions. The leader of the group, Sebastian Saint Germain, quickly catches her eye, and something sparks between them. With her independent spirit and thirst for excitement, it is not long till Celine finds herself in the heart of New Orleans’ seedy underbelly, known as the La Cour des Lions, a lavish mafia-esque group of unnaturally beautiful illusionists and magicians. She quickly falls in love with the boisterous city- the sights, the smells, the danger- but struggles to conform to the ways of nuns in the convent. The story follows Celine Rousseau, a dressmaker from Paris, who had to flee to America after a tragic event and take refuge in a New Orleans convent. ![]() Instead I found it to be a stifling and slow crawl through a story with too many underdeveloped characters, too little conflict, only whispers of romance, and an insufferable protagonist. I gave it chance after chance, hoping that the next chapter would whisk me away into vampiric bliss. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young ReadersĪlas, I wanted to love this book. ![]()
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