A review by bookgirlnadine
We Could Be Beautiful by Swan Huntley

3.0

I'm torn between giving this a 2 star or 3. What I liked was the development of the characters. I could visualize them, even Dan. Catherine was everything I dislike in a person. Shallow, self-absorbed and unduly entitled. She was a pretty good character to hate. What I didn't like about this book was the dangling storylines that danced around the periphery; What happened to Max the violin student and his mother who was perpetually late? Or Bob and his Florida escapades? What about the uncomfortable sex between Catherine and William? What was the point of that? And back to the violin lessons... what about Stan? To me the author set the reader up for a scenario she didn't deliver on at all. Her red herrings just led us down a path we weren't going, and that would be fine if the actual ending didn't turn out to be just meh, a letdown, and far less of a climax than I expected in my own head. Read it for the character development, not the story line.