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A review by motherofbooks93
The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
4.0
*4.5 stars
“He was chained to her, to this brilliant ideal of a perfect love.”
Everytime I read a book by Sivia Moreno-Garcia, I’m always amazed by how different they all are from each other.
The Beautiful Ones is a fantasy of manners and I would describe it as more of a fantasy romance. I’m not a huge romance reader, but when I say I adored every aspect of this book, especially the romance. In fact, I would argue that the romance was the main selling point for me.
This follows two characters, Nina and Hector. Nina is new to society and her cousin wants her to find a good match before she gets too old. However, Nina is not what people would call an acceptable lady, especially according to her cousin’s wife, Valèrie.
Nina eventually meets Hector who is a very talented and famous telekinetic. She is enthralled by him and he eventually begins courting her. Hector is keeping a huge secret from Nina though that may threaten the friendship they have formed.
This reminded me so much of those regency romances and I really didn’t think this would be my thing, but it was. The biggest selling point of this story are the characters, especially Nina and Hector. I loved them both even if I was frustrated with Hector quite a bit. Nina is so headstrong and so uniquely herself in a society that rewards conformity. She was so full of life and I just loved following her throughout the story.
Hector is the complete opposite. He’s more mysterious and he has a lot of inner turmoil, especially as it concerns his love life. I can’t say too much about it because it would get into spoiler territory, but just know that I wanted Hector to wake up and get out from under the spell of a certain someone.
The last character we unfortunately have to meet is Valèrie, who I despised from the very beginning and that feeling got worse as the story progressed. I think that’s one of the reasons this didn’t get five stars from me. Valèrie storyline went on too long for my liking. It kind of took away from the love story of Nina and Hector. I was lowkey over it by the end.
Now this is a fantasy and there is this society, The Beautiful Ones, that I wish was explored a bit more. The only thing we really know about them is that they value beauty, a very white beauty that Nina doesn’t fit into, and they have to act a certain way.
Despite that, I still loved this so much and that was because I looked at this as more of Fantasy Romance, heavy on the romance, and I recommend that is how everyone who picks up this book looks at it.
“He was chained to her, to this brilliant ideal of a perfect love.”
Everytime I read a book by Sivia Moreno-Garcia, I’m always amazed by how different they all are from each other.
The Beautiful Ones is a fantasy of manners and I would describe it as more of a fantasy romance. I’m not a huge romance reader, but when I say I adored every aspect of this book, especially the romance. In fact, I would argue that the romance was the main selling point for me.
This follows two characters, Nina and Hector. Nina is new to society and her cousin wants her to find a good match before she gets too old. However, Nina is not what people would call an acceptable lady, especially according to her cousin’s wife, Valèrie.
Nina eventually meets Hector who is a very talented and famous telekinetic. She is enthralled by him and he eventually begins courting her. Hector is keeping a huge secret from Nina though that may threaten the friendship they have formed.
This reminded me so much of those regency romances and I really didn’t think this would be my thing, but it was. The biggest selling point of this story are the characters, especially Nina and Hector. I loved them both even if I was frustrated with Hector quite a bit. Nina is so headstrong and so uniquely herself in a society that rewards conformity. She was so full of life and I just loved following her throughout the story.
Hector is the complete opposite. He’s more mysterious and he has a lot of inner turmoil, especially as it concerns his love life. I can’t say too much about it because it would get into spoiler territory, but just know that I wanted Hector to wake up and get out from under the spell of a certain someone.
The last character we unfortunately have to meet is Valèrie, who I despised from the very beginning and that feeling got worse as the story progressed. I think that’s one of the reasons this didn’t get five stars from me. Valèrie storyline went on too long for my liking. It kind of took away from the love story of Nina and Hector. I was lowkey over it by the end.
Now this is a fantasy and there is this society, The Beautiful Ones, that I wish was explored a bit more. The only thing we really know about them is that they value beauty, a very white beauty that Nina doesn’t fit into, and they have to act a certain way.
Despite that, I still loved this so much and that was because I looked at this as more of Fantasy Romance, heavy on the romance, and I recommend that is how everyone who picks up this book looks at it.