Title: My Beautiful (The Beautiful #2)
Author: Alicia Rae
Genre: Contemporary Romance 18+
Publication Date: November 5, 2013
Cover Designed By: Okay Creations
Synopsis
Still trying to recover from a tragic loss, Lily’s worst fear is falling in love. Distancing herself from everyone is the only way she can keep heartache away.
Deep down though, Lily realizes that living without Kyle is too painful. She finds strength in Kyle’s arms, and he gives her the courage to face her past. With every step forward, Lily continues to nurture and mend her damaged heart.
Just when Lily feels closure within her grasp, secrets from the past finally catch up with her, and Lily will discover that more than her heart is on the line.
Will love be enough to save Lily?
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About the Author
Alicia Rae is a Contemporary Romance Author who lives in Dekalb, Illinois, with her husband and three beautiful boys. Alicia has a passion for reading all types of romance, writing to bring a story to life, and photography.
Thank you to my dear sister, Kels, who showed me a few years ago how much I truly missed reading. And to my loving husband, for not throwing away my Nook, and planting the seed of writing into my mind. I am forever grateful. Xo
Readers, words cannot thank you enough for supporting me along this incredible journey. I hope you enjoy my novels as much as I do writing them. I thank each and every one of you.
Believe in yourself and follow your dreams…
Book 1 Beautiful Chances Review
My Review
November 6. 2013
November 6. 2013
4 Stars ★★★★
ARC provided by Author for Honest Review
While I loved the first one and enjoyed this one, it just
didn’t “wow” me like Beautiful Chances did. I think my favorite part of book one by far
was Kyle and thankfully he was just as swoon-worthy this time around.
“Telling him that I loved him, to me, was a huge
step. I could never take back my words. I would never want to take them
back.”-Lily
Lily is of course still having a hard time coming to terms
with losing her family. Now she has Kyle, her rock, to help her through the
more tough times, but it’s still an inner battle she needs to overcome. The
book starts off literally right where the first left us and it flows as if it
never ended.
Kyle’s more possessive alpha side comes out and every growl
had me sweating.
There were a few things I didn’t like however.
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The foreshadowing or hints about things Kyle’s
keeping from Lily. I hope book three isn’t all about these secrets.
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About a ¼ of the way through until the end it
felt like 95% of the book revolved around them having sex or Lily crying.
Seriously she cries non-stop, hell, she probably still cried during sex. I’m a
fan of sex as much as the next person, but every few pages was overkill.
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I felt like Lily should have had more of a
breakthrough in dealing with her past. Sure she goes to visit her family and
get her families’ home cleaned out but I didn’t feel she grew enough. She had
so much inner power that even she doesn’t realize and even without Kyle she
should be stronger.
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I completely forgot about the whole stalker
drama. In fact it just miraculously is brought up again 50% in.
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The stalker drama overall was kind of blah. It’s
not mentioned at all the first half of the book and then suddenly it’s brought
back in and by the end solved and cleared up like a pesky bug. I assumed this
would be dragged on to book 3 and though I’m glad it did not, everything was
handled very awkwardly.
-
It really felt like a middle book. Kind of
draggy and to the point where much of it could have been cut to perhaps
conclude the series rather than have a whole ‘nother book after this one.
“I opened my heart to
loving someone again, but if I were to lose anyone else I loved, I knew my
heart would shatter beyond repair.”-Lily
I
know I had a lot more bad things to say about the book than good but I didn’t
hate it. It was still an enjoyable read and I loved re-visiting these
characters again. I’m hoping the third book will be a lot more pleasing
especially since it will focus more on Kyle and them moving in together.
I was glad we finally got to meet
her family: cousins, aunt and uncle. Since her visit home continues in this
book we get to see a lot of her cousins and they are like a bunch of kids when
they’re all together. Off-roading on ATV’s was a favorite past-time of Lily and
her cousins, so it was nice to see her let loose and have fun again. Plus
having Kyle around certainly helped.
Overall though I felt a bit letdown
between all the crying and sex, I’m still looking forward to the final book in
the series. Kyle continued to steal my heart and I can’t wait till we learn
more about him. I’m afraid of what we’ll find but at least the stalker is out
of the way so these two can finally focus on their relationship and becoming
permanent fixtures in each others lives’.
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