In Bed With the Beast

by Tara Sivec

Series: The Naughty Princess Club (#2)

Published by: Swerve

June 5th, 2018

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Format: eBook

Source: Purchased

Rating: 4 Stars

     A tale as old as time: she needs a place to stay, he's a grump with a secret and an extra room...can love find a way?

     Living in her overprotective dad’s basement, shy Belle lives her life through books. Being a part of the Naughty Princess Club is the first adventure she’s ever had, plus she desperately needs the money to save one of her favorite places - the local library.

     But when her new friends and new business gets her kicked out of her dad’s house, Belle is rescued by the surly Vincent “Beast” Adams who invites her to be his house guest until she gets back on her feet. Despite his attitude problem and long list of rules, Belle finds herself warming to the muscled man with a penchant for growling and starts seeing a gentle side to him that wasn’t there before.

     Yet there’s a room that Beast keeps locked and Belle keeps getting hints that Beast is hiding something…can a nerdy librarian tame the beast or will their romance be over before it has a chance to blossom?

     This is my second Tara Sivec read and I have to say that although not as funny as the first one on this series it was still good on a different level. This book had more self-discovery and was heavier than book one, although it still had the funny things I loved from the previous book.

     This was the story of Isabelle and Vincent best known as Beast. Belle was discovered by her dad sneaking around and coming home late and was thrown out of her house. Beast figures it out (or does he?) and offers her, well more like orders her, to stay with him until she can make enough money to have her own place.

     Belle is trying to get the courage to start participating in the business she and her best friends Cin and Ariel started, the Naughty Princess Club. To do that she needs more experience with men and so starts the hilarious process of blind dating.

     Beast for his part is very mysterious and tries to give Belle her space with just a couple of rules which includes not opening that locked door in front of his bedroom door and to paraphrase Ariel that is like telling a child not to touch.

     I laughed and I cried and I loved every minute of reading this book. There were only a couple things that left me scratching my head and others I found either needed more explaining or less explaining, other than that I would definitively recommend anyone to read this series. I already preordered book 3 and I can't wait for it!

     Once upon a time Cynthia was the perfect housewife. Between being the President of the PTA and keeping her home spotless without a hair (or her pearls) out of place, her life was a dream come true. Her husband was once her knight in shining armor, but now he’s run off with all their money…and the babysitter.

     Dressed as a princess at the annual Halloween block party on Fairytale Lane, she meets two other “princesses” also facing money troubles: antique store owner Ariel and librarian Isabelle. When the women are invited to wear their costumes to a party where they’re mistaken for strippers, Cindy, Ariel, and Belle realize that a career change could be the best way to make their money problems go bippity-boppity-boo.

     But can structured Cindy approach a stripper pole without sanitizing wipes? And could the blue-eyed anti-prince that has been crossing her path become Cindy’s happily ever after?

     So I confess that I started reading this book cause I saw the cover for Kiss the Girl, the third book of the series and I fell in love with it. When I saw it was the third book of a series I decided to try the first one to see if I was going to like that third book cause I definitively want it. well, lo and behold I went absolutely bonkers for this series and I already bought book 2 and preordered book 3. The sad thing about it? They are not published on paper but hopefully, it will happen. Even if I have the eBooks I need the paper copies!

     Now that I vented a little let us get to the heart of the matter. These series of book are a modern day re-telling of the Disney movies, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and The Little Mermaid. From the moment Cin meets Ariel, it is a rollercoaster of laughter and humor with a dash of sexy and a lot of self-discovery.

     I loved all the small details that tied this book to the original Cinderella story but what I love the most was this fresh spin on it.

     The book is told in first person POV and though it is not something I love there is once in a while a book (or series of books) that will suck me in and chew me out and leave me wanting more. This is one such instance and I am happy to say I will add Tara Sivec to my list of #FutureAuthorStalker in which if it's a new to me author I'll read everything on their backlog and any future releases.

     I can't wait to start reading In Bed With the Beast. Beast in this book was very intriguing (and rude) and Belle was very mysterious there in the end.