The Beauty Trials

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.