Beautiful Bombshell by Christina Lauren | Book Review

Beautiful Bombshell by Christina Lauren

Reading Group Rating: M for Mature

Personal Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars

Given Summary: A beautiful bastard of a groom-to-be. A bachelor-party-crashing bride. And one unforgettable night on the Vegas strip.

When Bennett’s friends steal him away from Chloe for a weekend of shenanigans and strippers in Vegas, their first stop doesn’t exactly go as planned. Their scheme for a guys’ weekend completely derailed, Bennett and Max take every chance they get to rendezvous secretly with the women they love. But when the persistently single Will Sumner catches on, the pair realizes they need to team up with him instead of butting heads if they’re to escape for more sexy Vegas hookups. 

Beautiful Bastard’s Chloe Mills and Bennett Ryan are back for one last blazing prewedding hurrah- but if what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, they might not ever want to leave!


Cover: I'm assuming this cover is of Chloe, but it could be Sara.  My guess is Chloe because the book is about Bennett's bachelor party and he's marrying Chloe so it makes sense that she would be on the cover.

Summary: It's Valentine's Day! But Bennett is in Vegas for his Bachelor Party... oh... Bennet, Max, Henry, and Will are all very busy men and the only weekend they could all get away was Valentine's day weekend, which kinda stinks for Bennett and Max.  The novella starts with all of the boys in a club, one of Johnny's Clubs.  Remember him?  He's a friend of Max and Sara.  Anyway, Max arranges for Bennett to get a lap dance in one of the rooms.  Bennett complains and repeatedly sys he doesn't want to, but eventually gets peer pressured into going into the room.  He puts on a blindfold and gets a very uncomfortable lap dance.  THAT IS until he realizes that the dancer is actually Chloe. She and Sara came to Vega to crash the Bachelor Party and spend Valentine's Day with their boys.  Sara and Max also get it on in the club...A little bit different than Bennett and Chloe and with some viewers.  After that the night goes on with the boys doing whatever they can to ditch their two friends and meet up with the girls.  Bennett fakes a medical problem to have sex with Chloe in a casino bathroom.  Max steals a limo to meet Sara at a theater and have sex while the showgirls practiced a peep show.  Henry hardly notices because he spends his time gambling, but Will is a little sad that his friends are abandoning him to have sex with their fiancé/girlfriend.  Max decides that he and Bennett need to hire Will a prostitute to cheer him up, but a transvestite escort comes instead and Will is not exactly pleased.  The boys meet up with the girls at a casino and they all play the tables together.  Chloe even wins a few grand.  However, Will is still not over the whole being kissed by a transvestite thing so he hires some goons to make Bennett and Max feel like they're getting arrested, only coming clean when the boys are really sweating.  The book ends with Bennett coming back to his hotel room to find Chloe asleep.  They have sex, but they have a really cute conversation about how much they love each other and how excited they are to get married.

My Review:  Max and Bennett!!!  I love that it is only from their perspectives and neither of the girls.  This novella is so cute and simply funny.  These boys are the friends you want to have, always playing pranks on each other and having a good time.  I love that it takes place on Valentine's Day and that it's only on Valentine's Day.  The girls didn't crash the entire weekend, just one night.  I really liked that.  It would have been kind of annoying of them if they crashed the entire Bachelor Party.  The realisticness of Christina Lauren's characters is something I can't get over.  They're all normal people in love and they're all best friends.  I love it!


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Beautiful Stranger by Christina Lauren | Book Review

Beautiful Stranger by Christina Lauren

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Reading Group Rating: M for Mature

Personal Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars

Given Summary: A charming British Playboy. A girl determined to finally live. And a secret liaison revealed in all too vivid color. Book two in the NYT Bestselling series. 

Escaping a cheating ex, finance whiz Sara Dillon's moved to New York City and is looking for excitement without a lot of strings attached. So meeting the irresistible, sexy Brit at a dance club should have meant nothing more than a night's fun. But the manner--and speed--with which he melts her inhibitions turns him from a one-time hookup and into her Beautiful Stranger.

The whole city knows Max Stella loves women, not that he's ever found one he particularly wants to keep around. Despite pulling in plenty with his Wall Street bad boy charm, it's not until Sara--and the wild photos she lets him take of her--that he starts wondering if there's someone for him outside of the bedroom.

Hooking up in places where anybody could catch them, the only thing scarier for Sara than getting caught in public is having Max get too close in private.

Cover:  This cover depicts Max Stella drinking his personal favorite, scotch.  He's dressed nice, but his jacket is slung over his shoulder.  I think this shows that he's more laid back than Bennett Ryan.

Summary:  Sara Dillon comes from a good family that owns Dillon's Department stores.  She was engaged to a Congressman Andrew Morton until that she discovered he had been cheating on her for their entire relationship.  She worked for Bennett Ryan in Chicago and is best friends with Chloe Mills.  After breaking up with Andy she decides to move to New York and work with them in the new building.  Once she is in New York Chloe and Julia decide to take her out.  They go to a club and Sara ends up having sex with a very attractive British stranger.  She soon discovers that this stranger is Max.  (Remember Max?  The Max whose estate Bennett used to propose to Chloe?  This is the same Max!!)  So they kind of pull a Bennett and Chloe and start having sex.  Surprised? No.  Except Sara likes to be watched when she's having sex...okay so not watched watched, but she likes having sex in places where they could be caught.  She also doesn't mind being photographed, as long as there are no faces.  So she makes a plan with Max that they can have sex every Friday anywhere Max wants to.  They have sex in a warehouse, a nightclub designed for people who enjoy being watched, lots of places except in a bed.  Max is a notorious playboy, but he falls in love with Sara.  When they have their arrangement, they're not dating, but they both have feelings for each other.  They have sex in Max's bed one night and declare that they love each other.  But then Max has to go on a business trip and his carryon is stole, containing his phone, computer, and SD card with photos of their naked body parts.  A photo is released to the press of Max and Sara having sex, but their faces aren't shown, and a photo of a different girl that was on Max's phone.  Sara, who just got out of a relationship where she was cheated on for seven years, doesn't really want to hear whatever excuse Max comes up with and she stops talking to him.  Bennett comes to Sara and tells her to hear Max out, remembering hat she was the one to not give up with Chloe when they were broken up and that just because Andy cheated on her doesn't mean that Max did.  The next week they go to a party at Max's and he and Sara talk.  The photo was a picture of Will's former lover.  Will is Max's business partner.  Will was making fun of Max because taking photos of lovers is apparently old news.  Sara apologizes, but Max dismisses her from his room, which is covered with the pictures he's taken.  She goes back to the party and wants to leave.  She feels awful for not letting Max explain earlier and thinks that she's ruined any relationship they could have had.  Max emerges from his bedroom and pushes Sara up against the wall to kiss her.  He then apologizes to the perry goers and says he hasn't seen his girlfriend in a while.  It's the first time they've introduced themselves as a couple.

My Review:  This novel is similar to Beautiful Bastard.  They meet, they have sex secretly, they fall in love, they decide to make it real, they get in a stupid fight, they breakup, they makeup, they get make together.  But they're not the exact same and I think it's because that is simply the storyline these authors like.  Plenty of other authors have tons of books with the same type of story.  I thought it was cute that Bennett was the one to tell Sara to go talk to max because Sara was the one who told him to get Chloe back.  I also like that they're only separated for a week, because Sara was overreacting a little so I'm glad she didn't shut him out for too long.  The storyline is cute and, if you're like me, you won't be able to put it down until you've read the last page.


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Beautiful B*itch by Christina Lauren | Book Review

Beautiful Bitch by Christina Lauren

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Reading Group Rating: M for Mature

Personal Rating: 5 out 5 Stars

Given Summary: A combative relationship. A red-hot attraction. And no time to be alone together. 

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 intern-cum-girlfriend. Preferably one in which he can show her he’s still the boss. 

After her continued refusals to take time off with him, Bennett can finally no longer take no for an answer. And so the couple find themselves with two plane tickets, one French villa, and a surprising conversation that, predictably, leaves them wrestling under the covers.

Picking up where Beautiful Bastard left off, Chloe Mills and Bennett Ryan continue their fiery love-hate relationship . . . and take it to the next level.


Cover:  This cover features Chloe wearing a suit jacket and tie, but also it appears to me that she's wearing shorts.  I think this shows that Chloe is able to work her butt off and be taken just as seriously as any man, but she can still be sexy.  And due to the fact that her and Bennett often get themselves into steamy situations, I think she does this combo pretty perfectly.

Summary:  Bennett and Chloe are back!  It's been a year since Bennett showed up at Chloe's proposal and they got back together.  Now, they hardly ever see each other and Bennett doesn't like it.  He decides to take Chloe away to stay at a friend of his, Max's, estate in France.  However because of work and moving from Chicago to New York, Chloe decides to go a day later.  Well, a day turns into a few days when her flight gets delayed and they are forced to be away from each other.  They've spent days without each other before because they both travel for work, but this time feels different.  They discover that they don't like being away from each other.  They never want to be away from each other again.  Bennett had gone to his mother's house before he left so he could pick up his grandmothers engagement ring.  When Chloe finally figures out what plane she's on she decides not to tell Bennett and surprise him instead.  She goes to the jewelry store in the airport to buy him an engagement ring.  When she gets to the house Bennett isn't there.  The cook sent him down to the florist to get his mopey self out of the house for a while.  While he's at the florist he realizes the cook actually sent him to meet the female florist, not realizing Chloe was on her way.  He gets back to the house and sees Chloe's suitcases and finds that she is in the shower.  When she gets out of the bathroom, they reunite and the entire speech Bennett has planned to propose goes out the window and he just says he wants to be married to her.  Chloe shows him that she was going to propose to him and makes a comment about him taking her moment.  In the end, she says yes.
This novel also has many flashbacks about the year that has passed between this book and Beautiful Bastard, including a steamy scene where they get caught having sex in Chloe's childhood room by her father and when they go to Bennett's family home as a couple for the first time and his mom says she's been waiting for them to get together.

My Review:  I loved this book.  I liked how it went back and forth between past and present, filling in the year since they got back together.  The story is about them going on vacation to get away from all the chaos, but they are only in France for the last chapter of the novel.  It's more about their journey than their actual trip.  I liked that, it was very "it's about the journey not the destination."  Plus, it was so Chloe and Bennett.  Having to work extra hard to relax.  


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Beautiful B*stard by Christina Lauren | Book Review

Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren

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Book Rating: Definitely M for mature 

Personal Star Rating: 5 out of 5 stars 

Given Summary: An ambitious intern. A perfectionist executive. And a whole lot of name calling. 

Whip-smart, hardworking, and on her way to an MBA, Chloe Mills has only one problem: her boss, Bennett Ryan. He's exacting, blunt, inconsiderate—and completely irresistible. A Beautiful Bastard.

Bennett has returned to Chicago from France to take a vital role in his family's massive media business. He never expected that the assistant who'd been helping him from abroad was the gorgeous, innocently provocative—completely infuriating—creature he now has to see every day. Despite the rumors, he's never been one for a workplace hookup. But Chloe's so tempting he's willing to bend the rules—or outright smash them—if it means he can have her. All over the office. 

As their appetites for one another increase to a breaking point, Bennett and Chloe must decide exactly what they're willing to lose in order to win.

Originally only available online as The Office by tby789—and garnering over 2 million reads on fanfiction sites—Beautiful Bastard has been extensively updated for re-release.

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Cover: This cover is much simpler than the Sublime cover that was essentially an entire summary of the book.  This cover has a drawing of Bennett Ryan, dressed to the nines of course.  I really like this cover.  It's classy.  I love when covers have people on them, but don't show their faces, I don't know why I just do.  I like coming up with my own vision of the character.

Summary: Chloe is interning for Bennett Ryan until she can get her Masters.  She has been his intern for a few months at the start of this novel.  The first chapter is where they have sex for the first time and it just continues from there; conference room, stairwell, changing room of a lingerie store, back of a car, cafe bathroom, Bennett's parent's bathroom.  However that's all their relationship is.  Chloe has been working for the Ryan's for years and Mrs. Ryan eventually tries to set her up with Joel, someone Bennett and his brother grew up with.  They never end up going out.  The relationship between Bennett and Chloe is a weird one, they are both somewhat possessive over each other, but they don't want to be in a relationship.  They both know that if they do and Chloe ends up rising in her career people will think it's because she slept with her boss.  They have to go to a conference together, where nobody knows about their strange relationship.  They end up spending a lot of time together in Chloe's hotel room.  They decide that they can make a real relationship work.  On the last day of the conference Bennett gets sick and can't go to a meeting.  Chloe goes for him and is really proud of herself.  Before they leave for the airport Chloe overhears Bennett talking to the man Chloe had the meeting with.  Bennett basically says that Chloe's meeting was just practice for her and he'll talk to the man professionally.  Chloe is humiliated, when they get back to Seattle, she quits her intern job and breaks up with Bennett.  Bennett finally comes clean to his father and brother about what was going on between them and is a wreck for the time they're broken up.  The day Chloe has to present her presentation to the board for her Masters degree, Bennett comes to the new company she works for and gives her the slides to the account she had when he was his intern.  They make up, Chloe gets her Masters, and then she is given a job by Bennett's father.       

Review: I read this book from cover to cover in 6 hours on a Thursday night.  I didn't even have time to put it on my BWTBR list.  I loved it.  The storyline was nice and the characters were hard not to fall in love with.  I liked how it started quickly, there wasn't a few chapters of them and explaining all the ways they didn't like each other, it was right iff the bat into their crazy relationship.  I love how it goes back and forth between Chloe and Bennett's point of view too, I love getting into the heads of both characters.  You definitely need to be mature to read this book, but if you are I think you will really like it.  It's a great story and it has a happy ending, I am the biggest sucker for happy endings!

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