Right off the bat, I have to
say that much like reading Beautiful
Bitch was a somewhat weird experience for me, because I backtracked and
read it after I had read Beautiful
Bastard and Beautiful Stranger,
reading Beautiful was also a somewhat
weird, yet interesting, experience for me due to the fact that I’ve only read
three of the books in the Beautiful series
(Beautiful Bastard, Beautiful Bitch, and Beautiful Stranger) at this point in
time. However, I decided to jump ahead and read Beautiful now, so I could review it fairly soon after its release.
Admittedly, I finished reading this book a little over a month ago, but I got
so busy reading other books, working on other book reviews, and I’ve just been
busy with life in general, so I’m only now finishing this review and getting it
posted. I definitely feel bad about not finishing this review and getting it
posted weeks ago. I should also probably mention that when I write a review for
the last book in a series, I usually like to devote a part of the review to
briefly discussing my overall thoughts on the series as a whole. However, since
I’m jumping ahead and reviewing Beautiful
before I read the rest of the series, I’m planning to read Beautiful again and write a follow-up review for the book where I
discuss my overall thoughts on the Beautiful
series once I’ve read all of the books in the series; that being said, here
are my thoughts on Beautiful.
Having read three books by
Christina Lauren prior to reading this one, I can honestly say that Christina
Lauren have yet to disappoint me, and this book is no exception. I absolutely
loved Beautiful, and I thought it was
a phenomenal ending to the Beautiful series.
As weird as this may sound, something that I used to do a lot whenever I was
starting a new book, is that I would jump ahead and read the last few pages of
the book after reading the first two or three chapters of the book. I was
pretty much always very confused about what was going on whenever I would jump
ahead and read the last few pages of the book, but I still loved doing that;
because I found that it got me even more excited about reading the book
whenever I did that. Reading Beautiful at
this point in time definitely had the same effect. It definitely got me really
excited to go back and read the rest of the series. For the record, the reason
I don’t do that very often now is because I mostly listen to audiobooks instead
of actually reading physical copies of books these days.
When it comes to what I
thought about Beautiful, one thing
about Beautiful that really stood out
to me as I was reading it was the overall tone of the book felt very reminiscent
of romantic comedies; much like I thought Lauren Blakely’s book, Big Rock, felt very reminiscent of
romantic comedies due to its plot. The overall tone of the book didn’t feel all
that dramatic and full of angst compared to the tone of Christina Lauren’s
writing for Beautiful Bastard and Beautiful Stranger. For the record, I
haven’t had any problems with the amount of angst and drama that the other Christina
Lauren books that I’ve read so far have had. The overall tone of Beautiful simply felt much lighter
compared to their other books. While there were definitely times where Beautiful Bastard, Beautiful Bitch, and Beautiful
Stranger made me laugh, this book definitely made me laugh the most, and
that’s something that I really enjoyed about it.
