TITLE: How Beauty Met the Beast
SERIES: Tales of the Underlight #1
AUTHOR: Jax Garren
PUBLICATION DATE: 11.19.12
Characters: Wesley “Hauk” Haukon & Jolie Beniot
ORDER LINKS:Amazon | B&N
BOOK SYNOPSIS:
The Beast
Scarred. Damaged. Living with a terrible secret. Agent of the Underlight Wesley “Hauk” Haukon has nothing left but the fight for liberty against the oppressive Order of Ananke. He’s starting to lose hope…and then he sees her.
The Beauty
Despite her night job as a burlesque dancer, grad student Jolie Benoit has always played the mostly good girl. That all changes following a scorching sexual encounter with a stranger whose face she doesn’t see. After she’s kidnapped by thugs and rescued by a man with a very familiar voice, Jolie becomes a pawn in a struggle she never knew existed.
Hauk knows he cannot have her, and resolves to protect his heart and his secrets. But as they work together and grow closer, he finds new reason to keep fighting. Dare he risk hope in a new life, one where Jolie can see past his ravaged face and where their friendship can grow into something more?
38,000 words
REVIEW:
3.5 Stars ~ I really liked this novella and since it is a novella I will keep my review short.
After a most unexpected encounter Hauk & Jolie find themselves thrown together in unknown ways. They must learn to trust each other in order to survive.
Jolie is beautiful and trustworthy.
Hauk is scarred and damaged.
But they form a relationship that slowly breaks down all barriers between what you see and what you feel.
Jax does a great job of getting us 100% invested in these two and then leaves us hanging with the friendship card swinging between them. Can’t wait to see what book 2 has in store for our Beauty and Beast.
Disclaimer:
I received a complimentary copy of the book in exchange for an honest review. This review is my own opinion and not a paid review.
Thanks for the review – sounds good