Beast: The Beginning by Mary Catherine GebhardMy rating: ⭐⭐⭐ stars
Beast is the first book in the Hate Story duet by Mary Catherine Gebhard and focuses on Beauty and Beast. Imagine if you thought love was a fairytale. This isn’t too far from what Beauty believes and that by selling herself to the Mafia to save her father she would get her HEA. But what happens when her prince is a Beast. Captivating, domineering, harsh and punishing are but a few words that can be used to describe Beast and here begins the story of Beauty’s fall down the rabbit hole and what she must do to survive it with her heart and body intact. (Cue dramatic music)
Beauty (Frankie) and Beast are really complex characters who throughout this book just seem to keep missing each other’s points and the first sexy scene between the two just didn’t do it for me at all but the rest of the book was okay if a little long. You never really get into the might of Frankie or the Beast but do see small smatterings of their POV and psyche throughout the novel.
This book is a Mafia novel and you do see small aspects of that throughout the book and what lengths people will go to too get to the top. Overall this is a good first book in the dark romance, mafia genre.
ARC received for a fair and honest review.
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