Book Review: Beautiful Things Obey
In the silence of the morgue, she fixes what violence ruins. Bullet wounds disappear beneath careful stitching. Evidence vanishes. Secrets are buried with the dead. Every crew in the city relies on her.
All except one.
The largest. The most powerful. The one even other criminals fear.
She has spent years avoiding them.
Until the night their leader walks through her doors.
He does not shout. He does not threaten. He simply watches her work, calm, immaculate, disturbingly intrigued. When he tells her she will be working for him from now on, it sounds less like a request and more like fate closing in.
She refuses.
He returns.
Again.
And again.
And again.
The more she resists, the more fascinated he becomes. He calls her extraordinary. Says her talent is wasted on small men with smaller ambitions. Says beautiful things belong in powerful hands.
He thinks she will bend.
He has no idea she has been surrounded by monsters her entire life and survived them all.
Written consecutively by three authors meaning every twist, betrayal, and obsession forced the next writer deeper into the dark.
My Review
I absolutely love Leonore. She has a mouth on her. The way she put Silas in his place, had me chuckling. Even Silas had a smirk on his face. Yet, he would not let Leonore know she had the upper hand. Not right away.
As Leonore says, she keeps company with dead bodies, so she is not afraid of the living. When two powerful characters hang with each other, it is only a matter of time before the combustion gets explosive!
I love T.L. and Kia. They bring it every time. They are my favorite writing duo. Penny Dee is a new to me author. After reading this book, I right away was looking up other books written by Penny. I love the darker, gritter vibes I was getting from this book. This book is easily in my top three favorites of the year! I look forward to this trio writing another book together.
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