Quickie Review: Beautiful Bitch – Christina Lauren

Picking up where Beautiful Bastard left off, Chloe Mills and Bennett Ryan continue their steamy, combative relationship.

Just when Chloe’s career starts to take off, Bennett wishes it would all slow down long enough to spend a wild night alone with his girlfriend. But after he refuses to take no for an answer, Chloe and Bennett find themselves with two plane tickets, one French Villa, and a surprising conversation that, predictably, leaves them wrestling under the covers.

Series: Beautiful Bastard 1.5
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Publisher: Gallery Books
Source: Provided by Publisher
Reviewer: Shannon
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

I didn’t like Beautiful Bastard all that much (the HR person in my was screaming for almost the entire book on how wrong it was for  them to be doing what they were doing). However, I LOVED this book. It was great to see how their relationship had progressed after Chloe graduated and became an employee of Ryan Media Group…not reporting to Bennett.

They were still just as sarcastic and dirty as they were before, but you add that element of being in love with each other into the mix and truly needing the other to need them as much as they did, and it made for a beautiful follow up.

Bennett was the most surprising in this novella.  He was such a hard ass in BEAUTIFUL BASTARD and not someone I really wanted Chloe to be with.  But in BEAUTIFUL BITCH, we see how hard Bennett has fallen for Chloe and how she’s become is world.

I smiled as I thought back to my mother’s advice:

“Find a woman who will be your equal in every way.  Don’t let yourself fall for someone who’ll put your world before theirs.  Fall for the powerhouse who lives as fearlessly as you do.  Find the woman who makes you want to be a better man.”

Well, I had found her.  Now all I had to do was wait for her to get here, so I could make sure she knew.

Or the slightly drunken text he sent Chloe:

I’m so glad we met when we did.  Even if you were an enormous pain in my ass, you’re still the best thing that ever happened to me.

It’s these moments that redeemed Bennett with me.  He knew he was a bastard most of the time, but he softened when it came to Chloe.  He resented when work took them away from each other and was willing to do whatever they needed to do in order to be together.