BEAUTIFUL BASTARD by Christina Lauren

Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

NetGalley free read...

Where to begin? I thought that the arguing interaction between Bennett and Chloe was hysterical. Although I don't know any boss who would let his assistant speak to him the way she did, no matter how big of a jerk he was.

I feel like that story has a lot of potential. The substance of the story was missing though. I mean details like we don't even know kind of car Chloe drives as we read about she and Bennett having sex in the back seat. Not every backseat is equal.

There are glaring grammatical and structural errors in the book, like starting a sentence with a lowercase letter, names not capitalized, sections of the book, which I assume were added or adjusted placed out of order. Example is the section where Chloe gives Bennett a blow job while they are in San Francisco. You're reading along when there's a word out of place then you continue to read and then the added (red) section comes up at the end and you realize it was supposed to be at two pages back at the beginning where you were confused.

The sex was great to read. For as much of it as there was, the writer made each action interesting. Some of the peripheral characters should be built up a bit better and for us to know who they are and what they mean to the main characters.

Also, the author misses an opportunity to have someone outside of the relationship screw things up for either Bennett or Chloe when he is witnessed staring a her during the convention.

The author also glosses over what the Convention is really for. I gleam from the book that it's where interns and their companies do an early presentation of what their thesis will be as well as get the opportunity to mingle and try to make connections to get a job when they graduate. Not really sure since Bennett ends up having some kind of meeting with another company to give them one of their smaller contracts, which doesn't make any sense.

I didn't hate it and laughed in quite a few places, which is why I didn't give it one star. But it's not going to win any literary prizes and had a lot of errors, which is why I didn't give it more than two stars.

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