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Beautiful Bastard

Christina Lauren

3.5 AVERAGE

relaxing medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
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firedew's review

DID NOT FINISH: 3%

Yeah, no.

I'm not sure I liked it. The situation sounds hot, but I never reviewed this right after finishing it and therefore completely forgot about it (hence the reason why I'm doing this at all).
Somehow I retain a really bad feeling about this book.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

This one stradles the line between contemporary-romance and romance-plus. That being said I Really Really enjoyed this story. Another review mentioned the quick resolution between the couple that so obviously hated one another in the begining was a little hard to believe, but I know a few couples where this is totally believable. Apparently it's origin is somesort of twilight fan-fic, I don't see it, and personally i don't care. Why do I care where the inspiration comes from for an intriguing, steamy novel (as long as its not blatantly stolen/ripped off). Plus I would have in no way made a connect to twilight during reading this novel, and still don't see it even after I read about it.

Anyway, In summary, I really enjoyed this story. The hot steamy sex, the "beautiful bastard" and the strong indepentant heroine all combined to make this fun and exciting.

While I loved this book and I am bout to read the rest of the series because I fell in love with Chloe and I loved me some Bennett i felt a strong connection to FSOG in this book. No it is not a retelling, no it is not the same story, I just felt that it was a strong similarity. Also I didn't really think Bennett was such a Bastard.. I actually loved him and felt strongly connected to him in some wild way. And if I wasn't married I would love to give Bennett some of my panties.
SpoilerStill want to know what the hell he did with them besides put them in the drawer

Uffff por donde empezar? Creo que el 90% del libro es de los protagonistas teniendo sexo, pero por diosssss!!!! Era necesario? Y asi todo de repente ellos se aman, insostenible!!!! Y al final todo ese drama injusticado, me parecio un poco desafortunada la actitud de la protagonista, yo diria desagradecida para que despues asi como asi todo esta bien?? Y le perdona re rapido, despues de toda la pelea por meses? No me termino de cerrar, le doy un 3 porque si bien me entretuvo no voy a mentir, pero tarde en leero siendo que tenia pocas paginas.

Begins by a workplace sexual assault, ends with undying love: this erotica sure was written well before MeToo.
But as a once-Twilight-smutty-fanfic I have to say: way better than 50 shades.
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DID NOT FINISH: 7%

He touches her without consent. After intimidating her and berating her. Nope. I’m out. 

This…. Was the best.
But did I absolutely hate it?
No