The Beauty Trials
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With the dangerous, erratic Princess Sophia imprisoned, Queen Charlotte decides to invoke the ancient tradition of The Beauty Trials-a series of harrowing tests meant to find the one true ruler of Orleans. Edel, who has always aspired to be more than just a Belle, decides to enter and, after promising to bind her arcana to keep from having an unnatural advantage, joins a few dozen other hopefuls intent on becoming the next Queen of Orleans. But the trials are far worse than any of them bargained for. As the women are put through dangerous tasks meant to test their strength, confidence, composure, and bravery, many perish, and Edel is mysteriously attacked by one of the other competitors-forcing her to use her powers just to survive. Will her subterfuge cost her the crown, or is there a larger conspiracy at play? New York Times best-selling author Dhonielle Clayton returns to her sweeping, lush fantasy series with an all-new story teeming with high-stakes court intrigue and danger disguised by beauty
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3 primary books#3 in The Belles
The Belles is a 3-book series with 3 released primary works first released in 2008 with contributions by Dhonielle Clayton.
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Erin and I buddy read the first 2 books in this trilogy back in 2021 and of course once this books release date was announced we had to reread them in preparation for reading this one because we forgot pretty much everything we read. We had expectations going into this one and unfortunately we were let down.
When we finished the second book I was left with so many questions and I was hoping that they would be answered in this final (is this the actual final book) book. I think maybe one of my questions was answered in this book. Plus I feel like this book was totally unnecessary. The way book 2 ended was great. This book picks up 3 years after and literally nothing has changed and the new queen seems to have had a personality change in this one. Also there was something that happened in the end that came out of nowhere and didn't make sense to me.
Was this a let down yes definitely but even so I did enjoy my time reading it because of certain characters and because while unnecessary Clayton has a way of getting you interested enough in certain things to make you want to keep reading. I'm pretty sure this is the last book but if for some reason there is another one I will not be reading it. I think this was better off as a duology.
