Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren

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Back of the book

Whip-smart, hard-working, and on her way to an MBA, Chloe Mills has only on 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 rumours, 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 each other increase to a breaking point, Bennett and Chloe must decide exactly what they're willing to lose in order to win.


My thoughts

This book was all sex with minimal substance – but I am not faulting it for that. It is a product of its genre and in the right mood its wonderful. I counted at MOST, four chapters that did NOT have a sexual encounter, in a twenty-one chapter book. Roughly seventeen rounds of intercourse (that's a low estimate) across three hundred pages. So that's what you're in for if you read this novel.

I have decided after reading this, that I prefer a greater story to sex ratio. I'm not sure what else to say about this one. The writing wasn't awful enough to rag on about (unlike fifty shades), but I don't think it was particularly imaginative or poetic either. Perhaps everything just felt the same but the tenth time he ripped her underwear. Also how am I to believe that expensive lingerie rips easily?


TL:DR

Seriously? It's two short paragraphs. Just read it.


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