Oz✿ (on & off - works killing me)'s Reviews > A Bedtime Story (Beauty Meets the Beast)

✨Firstly, thank you to L.C. Moon for entrusting me to read her book in exchange for an honest review.✨

I was hoping I'd love this book so much but unfortunately this just wasn't for me.

The first in a trilogy of a dark mafia novel, A Bedtime Story finds Laura imprisoned by Kayne because her brother has gone missing and he and his associates need to know where he is.

If I'm being honest, I really struggled to read this book, I had to push hard to finish the story, I was disconnected from the characters and the plot, this felt really messy to me.
The start felt promising and had momentum, tension and character development but it quickly plateaued and became extremely predictable before the 20% mark for me.

The book was easy to read, the writing was enjoyable because it was descriptive enough, I felt the concept was okay (I didn't love it but it was okay), it had a dual POV which I loved about it.
I love dark, twisted & smutty books, there were parts of the books that I enjoyed in terms of those but overall this unfortunately fell short for me.

This plot just felt too predictable and unfortunately felt weak, it didn't feel like it was executed well.
The ending felt rushed and didn't make any sense to me if I'm being honest.

As much as I hoped I would, I couldn't for the life of me connect with Kanye or Laura.
Laura was an extremely wimpy character & was way too complacent for my liking.
Kanye wasn't a morally grey character to me at all, he just felt like a complete prick, I really didn't have much care for either one of those 2.

I really wanted to love this and was hoping I'd feel differently towards it, but this just wasn't my cup of tea and that's okay.