Reviews for Beauty and the Boss

The average rating for Beauty and the Boss based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-12-15 00:00:00 Lawrence Boehm Jr. I have been on a minor Lucy Gordon binge lately. I enjoy her writing as well as her characters. And this book is no different. It has one of my favorite tropes - blindness. It is loosely based on the idiom- �beauty is as beauty does� or maybe �beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder or not!� The h is a beautiful woman working in a cosmetics company as a PR person and is good looking enough to be considered a model herself-as the photog in the opening scene tells us. She is supposedly vain and uses her looks/smile to get her way often. But, really, I found her to be a practical and enterprising working woman rather than a conceited femme fatale. The same day she rams her car in to the blind H and his guide dog leaving the dog hospitalized and her, horrified and repentant. The H lashes out at her saying he can tell from her voice that she is one of those outwardly beautiful but shallow women who can only take etc. (that is one helluva ESP he has!) and refuses all her offers of help. Anyways the H is the part of this very exclusive marketing firm the h�s company has hired and so their paths cross again. He has a very protective 10 yrs. old daughter who brings him to the office now as Jenny the dog is physically and also psychologically traumatised, and is unable to guide. As things work out, the daughter has to go on a camp but feels too responsible for her dad to leave him all alone. The h offers to help and ends up living with him at his home for few weeks. And so the story and their relationship unfolds. It is actually a �finding oneself� kind of tale with the h realizing that outer beauty is not all there is to a person. But as I said I didn't find her too shallow to begin with. The H, on the other hand needed to change and mellow more than anyone else. Since the accident that left him blind and wife-less (as she played the devoted wife for a while before running off), he became very angry and directionless. Maybe his anger helped him in the beginning as he worked hard to overcome the obstacle and become successful and even indispensable at his work but it has still left him very dissatisfied and embittered. So it is ironical that the woman he considered too shallow is responsible for bringing love and laughter back into his life.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-02-26 00:00:00 Shirlene Patton [This book was safe. The reader (and Craig) are left to wonder if Delia is still dating her boyfriend when they share a kiss, but we later find out that they broke up previously. (hide spoiler)]