Review: Suddenly Beautiful, A Review for the Blog Tea and Book
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 11, 2013
I discovered Boone Brux in her PNR series, Bringer and the Bane, it was a wonderful delight of sensations. A Creative vision.. Having fell in love with Ms. Brux's writing I decided to give her contemporary work a chance.. Can you say spectacular? Suddenly Beautiful captured me almost from the beginning..A beautiful assistant hiding under plain clothes devoted to her superstar boss.. Sexy, dynamic all the women fall for him, throw in a gorgeous lawyer who wants him for her own... pretty blase right? Let's change things up a bit.. The sexy, dynamic boss is the son of Aphrodite... only he wants nothing to do her and is trying to live life as your average human (as average as a sexy dynamic RICH CEO can be). That sexy, witchy lawyer? Well she's the favored niece of Narcissus and the plain jane assistant.? Yeah she has some secrets of her own, not that she knows it!Nikki is just your average office assistant.. well at least she thinks she is, rather she is the daughter of a famed beauty, her mother being the largest competitor of her current boss. Whom Nikki has had a crush on since she walked in his door for an interview. Competent loyal, ready to go above and beyond to make her boss' life easier. But she knows no matter how much she may desire him, he will never notice plain jane Nikki. Nikki has spent her life dressing down to the point that even she is unaware of her actual beauty.. of course that doesn't include her inner beauty that constantly shines through. She knows she doesn't have a chance with her boss and has finally decided to consider other options..Toraos Stephanos, billionaire make up mogul is the son of Aphrodite, something he has tried to live down his entire life. Because of his mother's constant interference in his life and a few less than stellar dates.. he has declared, no more dating, demi-gods, fairies, witches, trolls, nymphs, muses or any other magical being. He is adamant When he hires the daughter of Ares as his personal assistant he is sure there is no attraction so his work life should run smooth. *smirk* silly, silly, man. When a business dinner ends up with him drinking Ambrosia then a night of hot monkey sex with Nikki his life is turned topsy turvy..It's bad enough when you have a secret crush on your gorgeous boss, who has an attorney who likes nothing better than to lord her sweet (not) self all over everyone.. You know the type.. the witchy girlfriend in every romance book ever written? Now make her the niece of Narcissus, yeah..not fun. Oh wait.. how about living your life in your publicity happy mother's shadow and not know who your father is.. a poor little rich girl life? Try living that life and finding out your father is really Ares? That's the fun of this book. When the most functional family relationships is between Aphrodite and her son.. and yes Aphrodite is historically accurate, gorgeous and surrounded by beautiful young men.Poor Nikki is surrounded by Demi-gods.. when she is asked to be the face of a new cosmetic line, she is surrounded by beautiful women who are congratulating her.. she thinks for landing the job or even landing Tor.. but nope.. they are part of the Ares fan club (totally cracked me up).This book may be total romance fantasy.. but I can see so many correlations to real life. We have all met that female type person whose sole goal in life was to look down on us (the mean girl).. Fallen for that gorgeous out of our league man.. Felt like a dowdy frump surrounded by beautiful people... have mother issues... have father issues... The more I think about it this book is totally realistic.. *grins* still a great read!Get this book and enjoy.. it's just a delight.ShauniThis review is based on the ARC of Suddenly Beautiful, provided by netgalley