Tara Lain - Beauty, Inc.

Author: Tara Lain

Title: Beauty, Inc. (The Pennymaker Tales #3)

Language: English

Format: ebook

Rating: 2 stars

No of pages: 198

Reading challenge: A fairytale's contemporary retelling

Read: 19.12.2017

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Is beauty only skin deep? 

Chemist Dr. Robert “Belle” Belleterre loves flowers, green trees, his best friend Judy, and “his baby:” the new face cream he developed to help put his father’s small cosmetics company on the map. Sadly he gets no help from his alcoholic, gambling-addicted father, who loses Belle in a poker game to Magnus Strong, the CEO of Beauty, Inc., the largest American cosmetics company—a man infamous for his scarred ugliness. 

Belle finds himself uprooted from his home, living in a wildly crazy apartment in New York owned by Mr. Pennymaker, and completely unprepared for his mad attraction to the charismatic Strong. Feeling like a traitor, Belle fights his passion, only to see more and more of the goodness and humility hidden by Strong’s ugly face. But when Belle’s family starts manipulating his life again, the odds turn against happiness for beautiful Belle and his beloved beast.

I hoped for more with this one as I felt that the characters were a bit too good to be true. Magnus is way too good with his charities and stuff, Robert Belle's character was also a bit too goody two shoes. Sure, the men kind of fit together with them both being a bit too perfect, but I didn't really see what drew them together nor did I really comprehend how much time had passed between point A and B. The action simply blurred together for me.

If there hadn't been these odd moments where I found myself even smirking a tiny bit, I would've given the book a lower rating.