Beauty, Inc.

Pennymaker Tales, Book 3

By: Tara Lain

Narrated by: Kale Williams

Is beauty only skin deep?

Chemist Dr. Robert "Belle" Belleterre loves flowers, green trees, his best friend Judy, and "his baby": the new face cream he developed to help put his father's small cosmetics company on the map. Sadly he gets no help from his alcoholic, gambling-addicted father, who loses Belle in a poker game to Magnus Strong, the CEO of Beauty, Inc., the largest American cosmetics company - a man infamous for his scarred ugliness.

Belle finds himself uprooted from his home, living in a wildly crazy apartment in New York owned by Mr. Pennymaker, and completely unprepared for his mad attraction to the charismatic Strong. Feeling like a traitor, Belle fights his passion, only to see more and more of the goodness and humility hidden by Strong's ugly face. But when Belle's family starts manipulating his life again, the odds turn against happiness for beautiful Belle and his beloved beast.

©2016 Tara Lain (P)2016 Dreamspinner Press

Loooooooove this series! Adore this book!

Once again Tara Lain has hit it out of the park. What a wonderful retelling of the Beauty story, and Kale Williams does a brilliant job of bringing it all to life. Looking forward to to the next in this series!

Holy Sh×t!

even though chapter 12 is missing, I absolutely adored this book! I don't understand why her books aren't movies yet! Darlene has a unique gift that brings the LGBT community great joy. And OMG if I could I would marry Kale Williams. His voice does wonders for this series. Although it took me a while to figure out the connection in the names I could tell this is the best erotic series ever! Kudos to Tara Lane and Kale Williams for a great book and listening experience.

A nice twist on a fairy tale!

We continue Tara Lain’s trip into “Fairytale Land” with her version of Beauty and The Beast. In this case Belle is a chemist whose gambling father uses as a pawn to pay off debts by selling his skills to a competing make-up manufacturer.

Though Belle is crushed at being forced to leave his friends, family and all the hard work he’s invested in his lab, he willingly goes to NYC to follow though on his father’s obligation.

Magnus, our beast, is terribly scarred and a bit repentant of a life spent in vain pursuits before he was injured. He now tries hard to be a better man, but still believes himself unlovable.

**

As with the others, this is a bit “tongue in cheek” and doesn’t try to hide it. The modern spin the author puts on this works pretty well and it’s almost “believable” in that the motivations and actions of our MCs is fairly realistic.

It’s a fairy tale, so of course, Magnus is to perfect and Belle is too much of a goody goody, but that’s a bit to be expected. The relationship between Belle and Magnus felt a bit disjointed and then rushed – but it was still very sweet – especially in the end.

If you’re a fan of the series then you’ll surely love this one as well. They don’t need to be read in order and this can definitely be a standalone.

I enjoyed it for the lighthearted fun that it’s meant to be.

Audio

Kale Williams is the narrator for the other books in the series and I think his tone and choices of voices really suits the style and flavor of these stories immensely. The villains are a bit cartoony and I wasn’t a big fan of how “suave” Magnus sounded – it was a little too “Daddy” ish for my taste – but it wasn’t a terrible distraction and as a way to enjoy this story I think it’s a great experience.

4 of 5 stars for both the audio and the book

Better than the Summary described

Great characters. Good story in spite of fairytale style, or maybe that’s a plus.
Narrator great as always.

Book Three in the series and Amazing

Well, I made it through .. shed some tears , smiled a lot , and enjoyed it thoroughly. Tara Lain wrote a great story, that does not let up. Kale Williams performance was amazing. The combination is perfect.