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A review by caitybell
Beautiful Stranger by Christina Lauren
5.0
I'm glad this series is holding up so well. It's been a long time since I've read them, and I was worried Beautiful Stranger would no longer be a favorite Romance of mine. Alas, my fears weren't warranted. This book remains on my list of top Romance reads. It's sexy, a little taboo, and for once the girl is the one that messes it all up. You know what I mean? The common and annoying trope in Romance books where everything is at its peak level of perfection for the couple and then the guy goes and screws it all up and has to prove himself before the happily ever after happens in the last few chapters? Yeah, not so in this book, and man is it refreshing. Is that a spoiler? Maybe a little, but not really.
Beautiful Stranger follows Sara Dillon and Max Stella. Sara has accepted a new job in New York working at a new branch Chloe and Bennett (from book one) are heading in the media company they all work for. Escaping a troublesome past and a horrible cheating ex, Sara takes the job hoping for a new start in life at being single and free. But it only takes one night at a club for her plans to go askew, when one tall and gorgeous British man draws her in and turns her on her head. After a dirty, public romp in the club, Sara leaves without giving her name and thinks she'll never see the man again...
Max has a reputation on Wall Street and in the gossip columns. But when he meets a mysterious woman in a club that won't give him her name but lets him take the dirtiest photos of her, he becomes obsessed. When fate brings them together again and the two are lost to one another's charms and kinky fantasies.
This book is about communication and desire and accepting every part of someone, and I absolutely love it. It's also the only Romance book I've ever read where I didn't find the voyeurism to be cringy or unrealistic. Sara and Max listen to what the other needs and it's so wholesome and perfect and spicy. Love love love!
Beautiful Stranger follows Sara Dillon and Max Stella. Sara has accepted a new job in New York working at a new branch Chloe and Bennett (from book one) are heading in the media company they all work for. Escaping a troublesome past and a horrible cheating ex, Sara takes the job hoping for a new start in life at being single and free. But it only takes one night at a club for her plans to go askew, when one tall and gorgeous British man draws her in and turns her on her head. After a dirty, public romp in the club, Sara leaves without giving her name and thinks she'll never see the man again...
Max has a reputation on Wall Street and in the gossip columns. But when he meets a mysterious woman in a club that won't give him her name but lets him take the dirtiest photos of her, he becomes obsessed. When fate brings them together again and the two are lost to one another's charms and kinky fantasies.
This book is about communication and desire and accepting every part of someone, and I absolutely love it. It's also the only Romance book I've ever read where I didn't find the voyeurism to be cringy or unrealistic. Sara and Max listen to what the other needs and it's so wholesome and perfect and spicy. Love love love!