Beautiful Mistake (The Beautiful, #1)

by Christina Lauren

THE NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLER



A new standalone contemporary romance novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Vi Keeland.


The first time I met Caine West was in a bar.


He noticed me looking his way and mistakenly read my scowling as checking him out.


When he attempted to talk to me, I set him straight—telling him what I thought of his lying, cheating, egomaniacal ass.


You see, the gorgeous jerk had wined and dined my best friend–smooth talking her into his bed, all along failing to mention that he was married.


He deserved every bit of my tongue-lashing and more for what he’d done.


Especially when that lazy smile graced his perfect face in response to my rant.


Only it turned out, the man I’d just told off wasn’t the right guy.


Oops.  My mistake.


Embarrassed, I slunk out without an apology.


I was never going to see the handsome stranger again anyway, right?


That’s what I thought…until I walked into class the next morning.


Well, hello Professor West, I’m your new teaching assistant.


I’ll be working under you…figuratively speaking.


Although the literal interpretation might not be such a bad thing—working under Professor West.


This was going to be interesting…

• ISBN10: 1682309827
• ISBN13: 9781682309827
• Publish Date: 31 August 2017 (first published 12 February 2013)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 27 January 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Diversion Books
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 350
• Language: English

Reviews

[Linda]

*ARC received via Edelwiess in exchange of an honest review (on December 21st :O the end of the world!!!) *

I never really connected with the characters, and they also seemed to not connect with each other, until the very last part of the book.

This review was originally posted on my blog (un)Conventional Bookviews.

Beautiful Bastard starts out with angry sex in the very first chapter. Chloe is talking to herself quite a lot in her own head, which some might find endearing, but I found that pretty annoying. For the first two thirds of the story, I thought both Chloe and Bennett were pretty much one-dimensional. The only thing we get to know about them is that they love to tell each other off - just before having rough sex in inappropriate places.