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A review by garbage_mcsmutly
Beautiful Carnage by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
adventurous
emotional
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.5
📝 A pretty standard Mafia kidnapping dark romance.
🚫🇬🇧 This book has one of my biggest pet peeves: Commonwealth authors who write American characters, but don't get any Americans to check the language. All "whilst" and "do the washing up" and whatnot. It got to the point where I was like "maybe this is supposed to take place in England???" But both the voice actors sound extremely American and at one point someone gives a phone number with a Washington DC area code. So I guess not.
🎧 The performers were fine but not great. Both felt a little flat. The MMC voice felt a bit cliche gangster style.
🌶️ 4/5 a fair bit of sexual tension and hooking up, plus it all has the tint of the forbidden.
✊🏳️🌈 Lol nope, no diversity. As far as I could tell, everyone in this book was white, Italian American, abled, and straight.
🚫🇬🇧 This book has one of my biggest pet peeves: Commonwealth authors who write American characters, but don't get any Americans to check the language. All "whilst" and "do the washing up" and whatnot. It got to the point where I was like "maybe this is supposed to take place in England???" But both the voice actors sound extremely American and at one point someone gives a phone number with a Washington DC area code. So I guess not.
🎧 The performers were fine but not great. Both felt a little flat. The MMC voice felt a bit cliche gangster style.
🌶️ 4/5 a fair bit of sexual tension and hooking up, plus it all has the tint of the forbidden.
✊🏳️🌈 Lol nope, no diversity. As far as I could tell, everyone in this book was white, Italian American, abled, and straight.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
Minor: Animal cruelty, Child death, Infertility, Suicide, Torture, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury