Reading Between the Wines Book Club

2.5 Stars

A Beautiful Addiction wasn't bad; it had angst, sexual tension, broken characters, and some suspense. Fitting for a new adult title. I, unfortunately, had a hard time connecting with the characters and overall story though.

Broken, jaded, and doing anything necessary to get out of her own head, Josie Banks is a girl without a past. But when she comes across Tristan, sexy and secretive, there is something about him that feels familiar. Their entangled past soon comes creeping up to haunt them though. Will their love be enough to unlock Josie's past and save them from the men who want to keep her past hidden?

The story of A Beautiful Addiction was unique and full of twists, but I think that because of all those little twists and the amnesia that the heroine suffered from, it made it difficult for me in turn to know her. If that makes sense. This is not the first amnesia story I have read though and I have enjoyed others in the past so there were more contributing factors to my disconnect. There was just too much going on that didn't actually contribute to the plot that the story, and it's characters, got lost in the complexity of it all. The story was over-descriptive and instead of focusing on the characters and giving them more dimension, it felt like the author got lost in the world surrounding them instead.

Overall, I was able to finish the book and appreciated that fact that it stood alone instead of being dragged out into several books. There was some sweet and sexy, and lots of dark and gritty. It had good potential but just didn't deliver.