4.5 stars Lorelei “Lola” Castle and Oliver Lore got married in Las Vegas, as did their friends Ansel and Mia and Finn and Harlow. While their friends were busy getting physical all over their hotel suites, Lola and Oliver walked for hours along the strip talking, not even holding hands. By the time Lola plucked up the courage to ask if they should get their own hotel room, Oliver had concluded that Lola wasn’t a one night stand kind of a girl, and rejected the […]
The Hollywood heiress and the fisherman
Like their friends Mia and Ansel, Harlow Vega and Finn Roberts had a wild, unforgettable night together in Vegas, where they drunkenly got married. Unlike their friends, Harlow and Finn got an annulment the very next morning. While the sex was amazing, neither of them are entirely sure they even like each other. With the exception of a brief impulsive weekend, when Harlow turned up at Finn’s house in Canada wearing nothing but a trench coat, where they spent their whole time together hooking up, […]
What happens in Vegas results in a summer in Paris
Mia Holland goes to Las Vegas with her two best friends to celebrate her college graduation. Mia’s dream was once to become a dancer, but a nasty car accident put a stop to that dream and now she’s on track to fulfil her father’s dream for her, which is fast track through a prestigious business school in Boston. He’s even offered to help pay for her apartment there. This Vegas weekend is Mia’s last chance to cut loose, and she sure does. Mia is shy, […]
Psst: There Is No Secret in This Contemporary Romance
I have reviewed the rest of the Beautiful series by writing duo Christina Lauren in an ongoing post, but since the tone of this latest entry was something different, I decided to review it by itself. To get caught up, this is the series thus far (8 books, 4 couples): Beautiful Bastard Beautiful Bitch Beautiful Stranger Beautiful Bombshell Beautiful Player Beautiful Beginning Beautiful Beloved Beautiful Secret – Let’s begin shall we? Ruby is an engineering intern at a London firm. An American living abroad, she […]
A New Novella for a Previously Reviewed Series
As it is part of the Beautiful Series, I simply added a new section for Beautiful Beloved to the end of my standing review.
Reasonably Inept Romance, Reasonably Ept Erotica
I don’t really know where the rumple in the sheet lies between romance and erotica, but these books are billed as the latter. I would have thought that the main difference was in courtship by coitus and the point at which emotions become involved, but there are plenty of romances where sex precedes love, so it really just comes down to the level of detail. The Beautiful series love scenes were not much more explicit than a fairly typical romance other than greater frequency and […]
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