Beautiful Secret

4.5 Stars!
Another fantastic, steamy, cute, sexy, lovable read by Christina Lauren.
I love these books, all of them, the characters are fantastic, and it was so wonderful to read a book where the man is the insecure one, the inexperienced one.
Gahh, I loved it!

It kind of surprised me, looking at other reviews, that this one got such middle-of-the-road ratings from so many people, because I really liked it. I also have never read any of the other books in this series, or anything by this author before either, so I came in without expectations - or rather, with LOW expectations since I got this for $5 from a Barnes and Noble clearance table.

I liked the main characters, Ruby and Niall, found their chemistry and respective baggage believable, didn't want to yell too many times “just have a conversation!” because Ruby actually WAS pretty good at communicating.

My only complaint is that, for a girl who is supposed to be working for an engineering/urban planning firm and is supposed to be so great at what she does, there is like, NO time spent on what she actually does at work, besides get coffee and sit in meetings and dream about applying for grad school. She's supposed to be working in New York for a month in place of her boss (who can't go because his wife JUST had a baby but that doesn't stop him from being a Grade A creep in every scene?!?), but she literally doesn't do anything at the office except try to seduce Niall. Like ... I've read enough of these things where the woman has a kind of fluff job, and now we've got one where she's given a cool job and we see absolutely nothing that differentiates it from any other book.

Other than that - and really, it's small potatoes - really enjoyed.