Beautiful Bastard

by Christina Lauren

PLEASE NOTE:

The following review contains adult themes (namely sex … Don’t say I didn’t warn you)

Alright, someone please tell me (raise your hands) who wears beautiful and expensive quality lingerie to a yoga class?

Okay yes, maybe a nice, lacy sports bra type deal. Throw in a plain cotton g-string, and you have a scenario that’s quite likely.

Let’s say you’re getting kinky and experimental with your partner, and they want you to wear it so you can get … some action later (let’s try keep this as PG as possible). Can totally get behind that!

But this girl wearing her lingerie, no idea she’s about to bump into our Mr. Handsome in the restaurant after? No idea they’re going to end up having sex the bathroom … No. Just no. This continues to bug me even weeks after I have finished this book.

Yes. I realise that I really do need to write these reviews while I’m reading / right when I’m finished the book or else there’s barely any hope.

I’m also coming to realise that there’s no law on how I should write these reviews on my blog.

Obviously you’ve come here for a book review, not my life story. If, however, you’d like to have a behind-the-scenes section, rant, journal-like section, please do let me know in the comments. I’m very excited to see where this blog will go in the long-run.

Anyway … Back to this book.

Let me start you off with this little tit-bit of information

“originally published online as a Twilight fan fiction entitled The Office, with Simon & Schuster purchasing the publishing rights to the series.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Bastard#cite_note-HR-5)

Remember what happened last time there was an insanely popular fan fiction of this nature? That’s right we got 3 (well, technically 4) books and 3 movies. I’m going to start generalising every time I see one of these fan fictions now.

We start the book from Chloe Mills’ perspective, and I was expecting the whole book to continue that way, but was gladly proven wrong. Mind you, my days of Wattpad has taught me for the better. There is no exact back and forth routine, but we certainly start off with more of Chloe. Thankfully our author ladies oblige with Bennett’s side of things just at the right moment that we need it.

Personally, I don’t think I quite liked Chloe all that much and how she necessarily handled things. I think her relationship with Bennett was going to be complicated from the start and I think that needed to be address more maturely from both sides. When conflict did arrive further down the track (really trying not to give anything away here), she didn’t stand up for herself and voice her concerns in the moment and therein lies my issue. She left the company at a really bad time for herself, but at least tried to focus on her career when it mattered. In a nutshell, this part of the book really bugged me and it would be incredibly interesting to read the other books to see how their dynamic as a couple evolves.

Now this book has some cliché plot lines, but that’s exactly why you read it. Especially after the last few years we’ve all had, some cringey, happy endings are exactly what is needed. Not to mention the sex; and lots of it. This book is more sex than plot, so if that’s not what you’re in the mood for, it’ll either change your mind or force you to change your current book. The sex is very good, I will admit. Mildly makes up for the lack of plot.

But do you want to know what the best part is?

There’s a sequel. But wait. There’s more than a sequel … There’s a whole SERIES!!!!

Maybe in the future when this blog generates some income I’ll review more of them hehe. I certainly wouldn’t mind 😉