Beautiful Stranger by Christina Lauren
Publisher: Gallery Books (6th Jun 2013)
Received a copy for review from The Hot Bed, thank you!
Blurb:
Escaping a cheating ex, finance whiz Sara Dillon’s moved to New York City and is looking for excitement and passion without a lot of strings attached. So meeting the irresistible, sexy Brit at a dance club should have meant nothing more than a night’s fun. But the manner—and speed—with which he melts her inhibitions turns him from a one-time hookup and into her Beautiful Stranger.
The whole city knows that Max Stella loves women, not that he’s ever found one he particularly wants to keep around. Despite pulling in plenty with his Wall Street bad boy charm, it’s not until Sara—and the wild photos she lets him take of her—that he starts wondering if there’s someone for him outside of the bedroom.
Hooking up in places where anybody could catch them, the only thing scarier for Sara than getting caught in public is having Max get too close in private.
*tries not to hyperventilate while typing this review* Ermahgerd. I absolutely LOVED Christina Lauren's sensational debut novel, Beautiful Bastard which I got the chance to read it earlier this year. And when I received Beautiful Stranger, goodbye assignments, goodbye revision and hello Mr Beautiful Stranger!
Beautiful Stranger follows the story of Sara Dillon, one of Chloe Mills's friends and colleagues who jumped at the chance to start anew after a disastrous turn in her love life with her ex. Suddenly feeling bold, she explores her wilder side and when a seriously handsome lothario approaches her, she's in for the ride, but little did she know she was playing with New York's most unattainable man, her beautiful stranger, Max Stella - drop dead gorgeous, charming and utterly irresistible.
I cannot tell you how much I felt when I read this book. You might just brush this book off as romance or erotica, but it has more than that. It's actually quite a sweet love story (I can imagine Max rolling his eyes at me) but it is what it is. I love the parts where they were so good together - perfect chemistry and their affable manner with each other. What ultimately got to me was the part where they both began to realise that it's not just about sex any more - when Max genuinely cared for Sara and the other way around.
Max Stella. Saying that name aloud actual makes my knees weak. Oh my God. British, charming as hell, suave and irresistibly sexy. Could he be any more perfect? No? Exactly. I thought I could easily say that Bennett Ryan was my number, but upon reading Beautiful Stranger, I would seriously think twice when I decide. I thought Sara was a really strong character in the book and I found it easy to like her, because she reminds me of myself at times. Feisty, bold and sometimes impulsive. She's definitely a character I could relate to.
Beautiful Stranger is simply delicious. I devoured every morsel of this book and I still crave for more. It was so intense, all-consuming and I was so engrossed in the plot, I couldn't help but finish this book in a day. It was so good, Sara and Max are still in my head. Right now, I can imagine them having a good romp on the helicopter! Hugely satisfying and fulfils every guilty pleasure you seek in a romance novel.
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| Jen Law as Sara and the irresistible Sam Claflin as Max (NOT Katniss and Finnick, people!) |
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