WARNING: A Beautiful Mess Ends on a Big Cliffhanger
A Beautiful Mess features a broken FMC who can't form relationships, and a man who was keeping a huge secret, but also saved her. The motivations are weird, that borders on obsession, the decision processes are just flat out "weird", and some major incompetence, in order to stretch the story out to two more volumes.
Olivia Adler lost her parents young and was raised by an uncle, who she also lost later. She refused to be attached to anyone and has no close friends. And she was haunted by a dream, about a boy with brilliant green eyes that rescued her from a car wreck... Then she met Alexander Burnham when she was attacked and almost killed by a guy she barely dated. Alex rescued her, and proceed to woo her. But Alex is keeping a deep dark secret, for he had been looking for Olivia for a very long time... but is this his Olivia? And what other secrets may his family have been keeping? And can Olivia trust him to get this close?
The end of the book was basically a HUGE teaser for volume 2, and I don't really want to spoil the plot, but let me say whoever Alex hired should be executed for incompetence, not just fired. It simply made NO SENSE WHATSOEVER for her to be able to pull off what she did, if they were doing a proper job. This is the sort of plot problem that will make a reader chuck their Kindle in frustration.
Category: Contemporary
Primary Plot: Woman being stalked can't form relationships due to prior trauma; the man who saved her has huge secrets he's keeping from her
Tropes: amnesia, family secrets, conspiracy, stalker, protector, woman in peril
Overall Rating: 3/5
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