He was tall, handsome, with an alluring charm but one day, he disappeared from the spotlight, puzzling his many admirers in the process…Marisa Parlance idolizes actor Beau Montague, and has been disappointed since he left show business. She searches on the internet for him, and always comes up with nothing. Marisa’s friend Payton encourages her in her quest to find out more about Beau, but Marisa … Marisa finds nothing but dead ends, inferring that Beau is deceased, or worse. Marisa takes the plunge to see if she can find Beau Montague where he was last spotted, but will her investigative work actually arrive at the truth, or not lead to anything at all?
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When actor Beau Montague disappears from the public Marisa his biggest fan decides to find him. It’s a sweet story,moves quickly and smoothly and I enjoyed reading.
I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book. All opinions in this review are my own and freely given.
He was a star and one day he just disappears and no-one knows what has happened to him. She wants to find out where he has gone and she tries everything but still nothing. So she goes to where he was last seen. Will she get any clues? Is he alive? Is he dead? See what she will find
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I struggled with this one a bit. In the beginning, if felt like a story of obsession with Marisa’s determination to find answers about her favorite actor, but the tone changes toward the end. All of the elements are there, and we do get a satisfactory ending – a bit rushed, but satisfactory. However, I felt like it needed more in the last quarter of the book. With the way the story turns at that point, I would’ve liked to have seen that part fleshed out. As it is, I feel like I know what happened, but the feelings don’t really come through. All in all, there were things I liked and things I didn’t, leaving me somewhere in the middle on my feelings about Beautiful Beau Montague. So, while this one isn’t my favorite by this author, it’s still an entertaining bit of fiction.
I enjoyed the first two stories I read by Ms. Carrington, but after reading several of her poorly edited stories with bad dialog, silly characters (not all) and some boring or unrealistic storylines, I’m sorry I didn’t stop with the first two. There’s just too much maintenance in trying to get the proper meaning without the punctuation making everything clear; the blank filler page between chapters; and the lower case usage of proper nouns for the stories to be enjoyable.
Sabrina’s Surprise Visitor – I love this book cover; it reminds me of Larry Hagman in his JR role, which of course, I used his voice while reading. I wanted to read it even though the last two stories I read by Marcia were bust. I enjoyed this little story as much as The Grandmother’s Message. Good for a coffee break. Needs editing; missing commas change the meanings of the sentences. 4*
MAN ON A MOTORBIKE – An interesting short story about the romance of a carefree biker and his wife. I didn’t agree with what the wife said about meeting the husband at the end of the story, but this is a good coffee break read. Needs editing, but doesn’t keep the story from flowing. 3*
SILAS SAVAGE – The sequel to MAN ON A MOTORBIKE. I tried to read it but the main character acts like an idiot when faced with her mother-in-law and rages instead of converses. Needs editing and has the annoying blank page in between chapters. 3*
BEAUTIFUL BEAU MONTAGUE – I didn’t find this novelette interesting and the lack of editing bothered me, interrupting my reading. The dialog didn’t come across as natural. Having a blank page in between chapters was annoying. I stopped reading at Chapter four, 20 percent. Internet and Mom are uppercase. There’s my mom. Hey Mom, over here. 2*
EARLE’S GRAND DESPAIR – I had problems with the woman watching a man while they were both waiting for others and then finds his behavior peculiar because he looked at her strangely when he was leaving. The woman’s behavior was unnatural to me; she calls him brokenhearted when she just called him strange; the scenario, the dialog and the storyline don’t work. I couldn’t finish when the waiter decides to gossip with her since she’ll keep a secret and stopped at 16 percent. There’s the annoying blank pages between chapters. Needs editing. 2*
The Grandmother’s Message – My first read by this author. A sweet, quickly read, interesting story crossing lines and bringing generations of mothers together with their granddaughter. Needs minor editing, especially with titles. 4*
Adam, My Guardian Angel – A sweet attitude adjustment. An angel gives a woman the self-confidence to take back her life. Good for a quick coffee break. Needs minor editing. 4*
HARVEY HANDSOME – This needs editing and there’s a blank page in between chapters; both excessively annoying. Annaliese is stupid and Carey is dumb for going along with her. Her joke could have been expense with a doctor’s bill until I realized they had Socialist medicine, but it was still a stupid idea. I believe it’s “Harvey, Harvey, wherefore art thou handsome Harvey?” The story is a little too long, editing would have helped, but it ends well. Harvey didn’t act like a confident man of his age would have acted, but the game worked out in the end. 3*