Review: Good, slightly predictable
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 6, 2013
Incredible Beauty is the second book in Missy Johnson's So Many Reasons series.  If you haven't read the first book, So Many Reasons Why get to one-clicking now.  Also, you probably shouldn't read this review as it contains for that book.Incredible Beauty begins about six months after So Many Reasons Why.  Simon and Emma have moved in together, are engaged and Emma is about seven months pregnant.  Emma is trying to deal with her agoraphobia as well as she can, and is relying heavily on Simon to help with it.  Simon is constantly worrying about Emma's mental and physical well being, as well as the health of their baby.Quite early in the book we learn just how difficult the pregnancy had been on both Simon and Emma.  We also learn that Emma is (trying) to hide just how stressed she is over the pregnancy and her agoraphobia.  Simon, for the most part, has caught on to what Emma is trying to hide from him, with the exception of her overwhelming jealousy of Claire, and tries to do his best to make it easy for her.  Just when you think that maybe everything is finally going to be okay for Simon and Emma tragedy strikes.  This had the power to change everything, and Simon is left reeling, forced to make choices that can put his entire world in jeopardy.This was a 3.5 star read for me.  Probably my own fault as I had built it up so much in my head.  It was a very good book, it just didn't quite live up to the expectations I had after So Many Reasons Why.  I felt a certain disconnect from the characters that wasn't there in the first book.  I thought that, for the most part, the story flowed well (there was one spot with a continuity error, that bugged me though) and was well written.  I really missed Tom, as he only made one, barely there, appearance in this book.  I found a lot of the book to be fairly predictable, but was happy to have an ending to Simon and Emma's story.  I didn't have an emotional reaction to this book at all, which was surprising after how emotional So Many Reasons Why was for me.  My absolute favorite part of the book?  The reason behind the title, I loved it.  I will be looking forward to Mandy's (the girl who was abducted, by the same man as Emma, in the first book) story.