Review: 4 Steamy Stars!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 16, 2014
Beautifully Done is the second book in the Beautifully Awake series.  I highly recommend you read Beautifully Awake prior to this book, as there are a lot of spoilers.  This book is about Asher and Talia, but you do get to read what happens to Lily and Chase as well.You will remember Asher from the first book as Chase’s womanizing best friend.  He is wealthy, beyond hot, and my goodness is he an alpha male.  His life is completely flipped upside down when he runs into Talia; his and Chase’s childhood friend.  Gone is his living hard life, he completely changes his life once he realizes she is the one that he is supposed to be with.  The readers learned about Talia in the first book; she was the girl Chase impregnated and carried an immense amount of guilt about, after he asked her to terminate the pregnancy.  She moved away right after high school and no one heard from her again. Flash forward to the present where Asher and Talia start a long-distance relationship as she lives on the West Coast and he on the East Coast.  While dating, secrets and pasts collide to make one hell of an explosive story.  Can they survive what life throws their way?“Talia and I may have had a beginning and a middle, but together we had not end.”To be honest, the authors jam-packed A LOT into this book.  Honestly, within the first half of the book, I completely thought I had the entire plot figured out.  Was I right?  Um…no.  I was completely caught of guard by almost half of the story.  I think there were some twists and turns that were put in to the story for a shock value that were a bit much for me.  I still found the book enjoyable even if was a bit WOAH.“You are it for me.  I’m done.”This book was written in Asher’s point of view for 95% of the book.  Throughout the story, I didn’t really understand or emotionally connect with Talia until the very end.  I was a bit mad at her for some of her actions in the beginning of her relationship with Asher. You could tell that Asher would literally do anything in his willpower for her. His feelings for Talia were so intense they were almost bleeding from the author’s words. At one point, I think he needed to tone down his alpha-ness as it was a bit much for me. I enjoyed finding out what happened to everyone in their inner circle and I really enjoyed how the authors weaved their storylines in.Asher’s motto throughout the book was that you are living on borrowed time.  I don’t think I could’ve said it more poignantly.  You have to fight for what you want and take care of what is yours.  Throughout the book until the very end Talia and Asher fought for their love.  Plus, their chemistry together was pretty smoking!“Life is what it is, can’t change it, just have to live it.”If you love your epilogues as much as I do, then watch out…you are in for one heck of a treat! I was completely blown away.  I’m not going to lie when I tell you that it literally kept me up for a good half hour.