A review by fictionalkate
Beauty Dates the Beast by Jessica Sims

1.0

I think most people have a few pet peeves when it comes to what they want to read. Those things that you prefer not to read because they annoy or frustrate you. This book seemed to have all of mine. I liked the idea of the book. Paranormal dating agency with humans finding themselves mixed up in were cougar drama. But I didn't like the characters. Bathsheba has beautiful hair, is a virgin sex goddess and is oddly protective of her sister. Beau is obsessively possessive and a bit of a social cripple. And they're both impulsively stupid.

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I mean seriously, he has no idea how to be with a human and just hammers away as he's in heat and she still has thirteen orgasms the night she loses her virginity? That's one of the biggest paranormal occurrences in the book. And the ending? Someone calls her to say her sister is in danger so she goes to a murderer's house. Without weapons or backup. And without calling her sister or talking to her. Add to that these evil psychopaths all about to kill yet they let Bath have an unsupervised bathroom visit cause... why? It was just so dumb. Bathsheba is too stupid to live. And her beau Beau was just a super controlling alpha male who loves her hair. They seemed to be in love because...well I'm not sure why. They just were. I like people to have to earn their love stories. But I suppose these two deserved each other because no one else should have to be stuck with them.

I can see the appeal of this book. Plenty of sexy characters having sexy times and a great mix of secondary character I found more interesting than the leads.
But I just found it so silly and unrealistic. And whilst paranormal stories are always going to have a bit of the unbelievable about them I thought the plot was too simplistic.