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A review by vidotson
We Could Be Beautiful by Swan Huntley
3.0
Oh Catherine West, how easy you made it for me to loathe you and yet live through the pretty parts of your life. Catherine lives a most charmed life, $80K a month deposited into her bank account from her trust fund, her hobby is owning a store that sells expensive artisanal cards, which seems to really just be a front for her to feel like she is "discovering" artists as if collecting astronomical art pieces for her home isn't enough and a place to also snidely judge people without feeling guilt because she's just trying to improve her employees, she eats nothing, but buys everything and yet is (surprisingly to her) seems to be miserable and have no soul.
She so desperately wants a husband and baby that she ignores all the red flags of a gentleman, William Stockton, she meets and then immediately moves in with by focusing on how great he looks on paper and in person, but don't worry about his bland and pretentious personality. I guess it matched up nicely with her own snobbery...and made her otherwise almost perfect life lived alone completely perfect as a duo, even if the sex is painful at least he looks great in a tux and her on his arm!
For those of you trying to figure out if you want to read the rest of the book, here's the pretty disturbing twist so you can decide for yourself:
Catherine's mother, whom you meet after she's slipping away to Alzheimer's, had an affair with William when he was 17 (her parents and his were good friends until they were found out) and to keep William's parents quiet about the affair Catherine's father paid William's parents off and they moved away to Europe never to be seen or heard from again...that is until they died and the money that the West's were paying the family dried up and William came to sweep Catherine off her feet to get to her money. He only makes $300K a year which isn't nearly enough compared to the millions he blackmailed them out of before splitting town, while Catherine is pregnant with their child. Oh and the icing on the cake, Catherine's little sister that she seems to despise quite a bit is the love child of the affair!!!!!!! So that would make the unborn baby her neice and half-sister!!!
I read this book so fast just because I wanted to know the story and the big twist everyone kept mentioning. I skimmed and skipped most of it just to get the important bits and there you have it.
She so desperately wants a husband and baby that she ignores all the red flags of a gentleman, William Stockton, she meets and then immediately moves in with by focusing on how great he looks on paper and in person, but don't worry about his bland and pretentious personality. I guess it matched up nicely with her own snobbery...and made her otherwise almost perfect life lived alone completely perfect as a duo, even if the sex is painful at least he looks great in a tux and her on his arm!
For those of you trying to figure out if you want to read the rest of the book, here's the pretty disturbing twist so you can decide for yourself:
Catherine's mother, whom you meet after she's slipping away to Alzheimer's, had an affair with William when he was 17 (her parents and his were good friends until they were found out) and to keep William's parents quiet about the affair Catherine's father paid William's parents off and they moved away to Europe never to be seen or heard from again...that is until they died and the money that the West's were paying the family dried up and William came to sweep Catherine off her feet to get to her money. He only makes $300K a year which isn't nearly enough compared to the millions he blackmailed them out of before splitting town, while Catherine is pregnant with their child. Oh and the icing on the cake, Catherine's little sister that she seems to despise quite a bit is the love child of the affair!!!!!!! So that would make the unborn baby her neice and half-sister!!!
I read this book so fast just because I wanted to know the story and the big twist everyone kept mentioning. I skimmed and skipped most of it just to get the important bits and there you have it.