Title: Beautiful Beginning (Beautiful #3.5)

Author: Christina Lauren

Publisher: Gallery Books 2013

Genre: Romance

Pages: 209

Rating: 3/5 stars

Reading Challenges: Winter TBR

One beautiful bastard of a groom. The most beautiful bitch of a bride. A panty-ripping office hook-up turned true love everlasting.

Wedding bells can’t chime soon enough for Chloe Mills and Bennett Ryan. Chloe, exasperated and stressed by all the last-minute to-dos, is on the verge of saying “I do” to eloping. For his part, Bennett’s so worried about being distracted by Chloe’s body that he makes a no-sex-until-the-wedding-night rule that only seems to be making things worse by continually backfiring on him. As their crazy families descend for the big day- only a few of them actually trying to be helpful- the fiery lovers are about to test whether the couple that argues together can keep it together long enough to exchange rings, and not just heated words.

Slim novella detailing the run up to Bennett and Chloe’s wedding. They are really not my favorite couple in this series and it shows in my reading. I just wanted to skip through their chapters to get to ones that featured the other characters. That’s not a great sign. Fundamentally, I do not enjoy how they treat each other. There’s too much perceived anger and combativeness for me to get behind this couple. Thankfully this one was a short novella that I could get through quickly.

Beautiful Bastard