GRR Reviews Beautiful Lies by Heather Bentley

Beautiful Lies by Heather Bentley is a romance about keeping secrets, and how that affects relationships. I find the protagonists generally kind but way too rich to be sympathetic.

Heiress Christina Harcourt wanted for nothing... except freedom and her mother, neither of which she can buy. She survived a carjacking when young and saw her mother gunned down and lay dead in the street. And her family's continuous guilt-trip hidden by money and glitter only made her wanted something normal, something real, and that's when she met CJ. CJ is a normal guy, so normal, Christina wondered if he was planted by her family just to embarrass her. But fell for him she did. But when her family and CJ are both hiding secrets... something is going to break... and it'll probably be her heart.

The setup was actually quite nice, but somehow I can't quite bring myself to care for such a dysfunctional family of Tina, or CJ's own secret. It wasn't until much later that we saw what REALLY caused Tina's turmoil, and that was pretty devastating, but it was a bit too late in the book to make it really affect the characters much.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Rich heiress yearns for a "normal" life and fell for a normal guy who has his own secrets even as she found her family secret

Tropes: disguise, scars, different worlds, family pressure, family secrets

Overall Rating:  3/5