My Review (May contain spoilers, fair warning upon reading this review)

Beautiful Nightmare is the conclusion to the "Dark Dream Duet" and this is the continuation of our story that is complex dealing with our leading hero and heroine "Tiernan and Bianca" I was really curious to see where this one would deal with especially with some of the reveals that the first book "Dangerous Temptation" dealt with. I honestly still don't know how I fully feel about this duet lol I have SO many mixed feelings. While I was sucked completely into this duet and everything, and I loved the plot, the PLOT totally made this story work. However, the romance was lacking in this duet. Because I am sorry if the only time you are together, you are just having sex, the relationship is not going to quite sing to me. I need much more being portrayed and I understand the circumstances, I just was hoping we would see much more happening between them but sex just doesn't fix issues and that is kinda how this relationship felt to me. Now maybe I am blowing it out of proportion, but that is the impression I got from this story.

Now as for the plot, that was so intriguing. All the secrets left and right that are blended in here, and not knowing who is the true villain or hero was quite deep and really left me entrenched and hooked all the way through the story. And seeing our hero just fall for Bianca's little brother was so charming. I will say that overall I found this duet to be quite fun to read, despite the issues I had for it. And looking forward to explaining the other duet that this author has written. ( )

4.4 stars

I love for anything in the Midnight Dynasty world. It is a constant back and forth of whether I am team Constantine or Morelli. Usually, Morelli wins out. However, all the characters are delicious unless its Caroline or Bryant. Then those two can rot in hell.

This author did a good job having cameos from some major characters (Leo and Lucian in particular). I liked that she kept the characters the same even though those had been written by Amelia Wilde and Jade West. Its a testament to the skills of the authors that they can seamlessly blend their writing together when they are all vastly different.

I loved the growth in Tiernan in this book. I felt bad at what he had endured. It made the fact that Bianca and Brando were able to fill that void and make up that lack of love that much more crucial to his growth. Bianca grew a lot in this story. A LOT. She made me proud at how much backbone she got. I never would have seen the day that Caroline would get her comeuppance the way that she did. Or even Bryant for that matter.

I did wish there was more of resolution in regards to Beckett. I also wanted vs peak into the future instead of a HFN. I needed answers into how Brand's health was in the future, where things were with the evil patriarch and matriarch of the two warring families, and I wanted to see how Tiernan and Bianca adjusted to life , especially, with the age difference between them.

I'm not sure who is writing Carter's book from this assortment of authors but I'm going to need that book soon. I loved his character and wanted to know what his secrets were that Bryant hinted at.

Very good book. This author has never let me down. ( )