A review by marshmallowbooks
The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
4.0
This book felt like a fantasy young adult novel that I used to love to read. For a while I had tried to read other things that I though fell in the same category, but they didn't feel the same as they did when I was an actual teen, to the point that I figured I had outgrown the genre. Perhaps not so after all. It was fun to return and find something I enjoyed so much.
The citizens of Orleans are not born looking like the humans we know today – instead they have gray wrinkly skin, red eyes, and straw-like hair. But the Belles can change all of that. Fantasy. Magic. Intrigue. This book had it all.Fantasy. The background was covered thoroughly enough for me to understand the world and its unique characteristics, but not so awkwardly that I felt like it weighed down the story or became otherwise cumbersome.
Snaps to the audio narrator who pulled off both female and male voices very well, in addition to covering a wide range of accents (French, American, British, even Irish).
The citizens of Orleans are not born looking like the humans we know today – instead they have gray wrinkly skin, red eyes, and straw-like hair. But the Belles can change all of that. Fantasy. Magic. Intrigue. This book had it all.Fantasy. The background was covered thoroughly enough for me to understand the world and its unique characteristics, but not so awkwardly that I felt like it weighed down the story or became otherwise cumbersome.
Snaps to the audio narrator who pulled off both female and male voices very well, in addition to covering a wide range of accents (French, American, British, even Irish).