“She’s not a kitten—she’s a monster. And you can’t keep monsters as pets.”
It’s been months since anyone has seen or heard from Declan and Luca De Rossi.
Months since they left Teagan face-down in the dirt and disappeared on a plane bound for nowhere.
Just released from a mental institution, Teagan struggles to adjust to life without them, as well as her newfound notoriety and the reality that they’ve abandoned her.
But no matter how hard she tries, she can’t let go; she can’t move on. She can’t go back to the way things were or the person she was before it all happened.
Especially when part of her is still convinced they’re out there, and somehow, they’ll be back…for her.
But they’re all watching—not just her family and the fans, but the police, too…as well as The Order. A man in a gold mask follows her wherever she goes to ensure she stays in line…and that she understands what will happen to her if she doesn’t.
Or she’s finally lost her mind.
But Teagan never really learned to run in the other direction when she found herself face-to-face with real monsters. And she isn’t going to start now.
- Author: Elle Mitchell
- Release Date: October 21, 2024
- Genre: Dark Romance, Why Choose, Contemporary Romance
- My Rating:
- ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
- 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️/5
Get The Road to Ruin
This review will most likely have spoilers for Pretty Poisoned.
I don’t think I’ve ever read a book fast enough to see what the fck was going to happen after the cliffhanger from book 1!
CHECK TRIGGER WARNINGS
If you’ve ever wished that, for once, you could be the scary thing in the dark instead of the one holding your car keys between your fingers… Or if you’ve ever watched a horror movie, looked at the sexy psychopath, and thought… I’ll take at least two of those… This is for you
Why is my heart breaking for these toxic men, and why all the tears.
I think I have figured out why I had a hard time (weird panic attack well reading) with Pretty Poisoned because it was happening to the FMC, it felt like it was happening to me. Elle’s attention to detail is amazing, because her description of scenes is so good, I almost threw up. It was great. I was more prepared going into Road to Ruins, didn’t even skim the hard to read scenes (way to go me, lol)
The road to ruined is paved with good intentions. And you were always mine
What a fcking whirlwind of a book. Not knowing what was real and fake throughout the book was intriguing, I’m still questioning some scenes and wondering what was real or not. Forever watched by the men in the gold masks, learning about the secret society and bombshell upon bombshell. I was not expecting the turn of events.
Teagan is in a mental institution after getting left behind by the two people who promised they would never leave her. Who would take care of her and love her. No one was coming to save her. What is real and what isn’t.
“Like are you sure you’re really real? Because… sometimes I see you like this, and we talk just like this, but you aren’t really there. I think I’m going crazy, and I’ve done things, Luca. Really fcking bad things, and I don’t think you’d like that”
Is Luca there in her bed, waiting for her after her therapy session? Is Declan leaning against the door frame in her room? The man in the gold mask seems to be the realist hallucination for Teagan, but is he just a hallucination?
More a monster than a kitten, and you can’t keep monsters as pets
“I meant it as a compliment. I wish I could kill you because you’re all I think about, and it drives me fcking insane. You asked me if I thought you were beautiful… you’re flawless. You are poetry-your battered soul, and your rage. You’re the perfect monster, Teagan”
No longer pushing the “unnormal” urges/feelings for violence away–the blood, the sounds, taste– and embracing the feelings. Taking more lives than she thought she’d ever take, she hates it but loves it at the same time. I think Teagan does know right from wrong, she doesn’t want to hurt people. But she can’t help the way she was born and Bone Saw “helped” bring out her inner monster.
“This is where you belong-on your fcking knees. beneath me.” …
“My very own little monster. my personal fcking whore
Bone Saw actually speaks—he does a lot more than just speak. Lonely and looking for someone to love her, Teagan clings to Bone Saw, starts to fall for the man-monster under the mask. Their relationship is toxic, violent, not knowing which version of Bone Saw is true or another mask he puts on.
“No more beige,” I whisper, closing my eyes.
“No baby. No more beige.”
All the emotions reading this book and I highly recommend this book if you’re okay with the trigger warnings
Gods of Tomorrow Series
- Pretty Poisoned
- The Road to Ruined
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