Review: Wow!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2013
She's many things: Emerald, Raven, and Autumn.She's the image of her mother.What she isn't is...A Beautiful Nothing.Girls want to be her and guys want to be with her. She was taught from a young age that it's better to be the prettiest in the room than the smartest. Emerald's life has been spent finding how people can benefit her, which are the better prospects to be a "sponsor", and to get away clean before emotions can get involved.That's brought her to where she is now. Living with her grandparents in AL, trying to find a way out of Blythe. She has dreams and aspirations, but no way to get past herself and find her way to them. When she meets Carter and gets a job at the Phoenix her life is in for big changes.Could her mother have had it wrong all along?This is a riveting book. A true look at a life less traveled. How does a person deal with being brought up by a high paid escort and introduced to sex, drugs, and alcohol at a young age? How could you deal with so many people who only have their best interests at heart? No thought of how it will affect someone else?Emerald is beautiful on the outside, tough as nails via persona, yet incredibly scarred on the inside. She guards insecurities that she doesn't realize she has. They were inherited from her mother. She changes so much from the beginning of the book to the end. It is a complete 360* turn, not just a 180. As she has fully evolved.Carter is the perfect Southern gentleman. He's gorgeous, considerate, rich, and not lacking in any of the scenes. The question is, is he enough? Enough to break a carefully planned wall? Enough to make The Queen Bitch feel?The characters in this story are amazing. The grandparents are out to save souls. The ladies of the Phoenix are tending a souls desires. Carter just wants to know what is in Emerald's soul and how it works. Emerald seems to be trying to find out if she still possess a soul or cares.I finished this book quickly. A days time to be exact, devouring page to page. The ending was not what I was expecting at all and I can not wait until the next book in the series "Beautiful Temptation" is released.This is a 5 star read.Sure to be a 5 star series.It will leave you with your jaw dropped and wishing the next book was out!I received a copy of this book for an honest review.