Tragic

Beautiful Monster

Sara Cate — 2020

Playboy. Socialite. Frivolous and Wicked. Alexander Caldwell needs to settle down. Hence the giant white house he just bought in the suburbs.The one that backs up to the house filled with three single women living in it.They all have their sights set on him...but it's her he can't get out of his head.Alexander has absolutely no place getting involved with a teenage girl with the world in her eyes.But he does. Tortured. Lonely. Desperate to run.Sunny Thorn needs to get out of her mother's house. To do that, she needs money.Hence taking the job painting a mural in Alexander Caldwell's pool house. The man whose eyes follow her. The man with the sculpted jaw and commanding presence. The man who is way too old for her.When Sunny has the chance to get out of Pineridge and start a future of her own, he should let her go. But he doesn't. Beautiful Monster is a standalone age-gap forbidden romance from the author of the Wicked Hearts series.

Reviews

Kristin Luca@krisluca

Jul 10, 2023

I love SPC to bits and I wanted to love Sarah’s other books just the same but this was just jot it for me. As always it was beautifully written, loved the “Love is not something you have to deserve” aspect but… the characters were just awful people. I don’t understand how they fell in love so utterly with barely talking to each other, Sunny was an awful people pleaser in the beginning, something that just disappeared 😵‍💫 I know that it was supposed to be because of their love and what it taught her but I just don’t see when… also I just don’t se domestic abuse as so easy forgivable.

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Sarahy Benavides @gansito

Jan 31, 2023

De no ser por el sentimiento de que fueron dos historias distintas, hubiera dado 5 estrellas, fue muy bueno, demasiado bueno , por poco lloro.

Shannon O’Connor @shan_oconnor

Sep 24, 2021

This is the second book of Cate’s that I’ve read and honestly, if I hadn’t read Gravity first, this might have been my last. The storyline is just okay. It has the hype to be a great age gap romance but it just falls flat. There is a lot of build up that ultimately leads to something, but it could’ve been better. The characters are supposed to have this incredible tension and although they say it, it’s not portrayed well. It seems quite forced. The writing is good, it just isn’t a story I cared about. I had a hard time finishing this book because I was bored waiting for something to happen.