Emily Michaels ~ Have you ever felt like you didn’t belong? Like you never fit in, or you weren’t good enough? This is how I have felt for as long as I can remember. I see the world differently than everyone else, I feel everything differently and I reflect on life differently. And being different in my world is not a good thing. I live in a place that’s divided between the rich and the poor, the … the beautiful and the unbeautiful, the prestigious and the mediocre. I have always belonged in the first category, because my father was the Governor of Georgia.
Growing up around people I could never relate with, my life had always been lonely, that was until my senior year when I met the one boy who would change my life forever. A boy who my parents would never approve of because he didn’t come from money or the same social class. He rode a motorcycle, had tattoos and was considered to be from the wrong side of the tracks. Yet he was still envied by many.
Ryder Jameson was someone who every guy feared, and one who every girl wanted to be touched by. He didn’t do attachments, or have friends… until me. And for the first time in my life I finally felt like I belonged. When I was with him, my different didn’t feel wrong or ugly. He made me feel beautiful- insightfully beautiful. Then one day my world came crashing down on me, and it would be six years before I’d once again see the boy I fell in love with.
Ryder Jameson ~ After working my ass off I am given the opportunity of a lifetime, and if I pull it off I will be the youngest FBI agent to run one of the biggest undercover operations in history. Only the case that gets thrown in front of me leads me back to the one place I swore I would never return to, and to the only girl who’s ever mattered to me.
Except Emily Michaels is not the same girl I left behind. She still looks the same, she’s still beautiful inside and out, but there’s one thing that’s very different about her, one very big thing, and it’s something I didn’t think was possible.
Ryder and I come from a world where politics separates us and wealth defines us, but even after all this time we will not let it divide us. Here is our story.
This is a standalone novel with an HEA and is told in dual POV. Due to mature subject mature, such a explicit sexual situations and coarse language, this story is not suitable for anyone under the age of 18.
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Stayed up too late reading this book. Lived the story.
Great story about tragedy, revenge and acceptance. A story about a boy trying to strive to make something more of himself and a girl who is lost and just taking what life has giving her and trying to make the most of it. They grow up and fate reunites them to find themselves and conquer evil while solving a mystery.
Read: 10/30/19
Beautifully Insightful was a stand-alone by KC Lynn. It was also my first book by the author.
I love Romance…Suspense…Second Chances. Combine the three and I’m hooked before I ever get started. Beautifully Insightful was no exception.
Ryder Jameson and Emily Michaels met in their last year of high school. Emily was the governor’s daughter, was blind and had been home schooled until her senior year. She represented the privileged in every way. Ryder was poor and represented the wrong side of society. They met, connected and tried to defy their social status customs.
Fast forward six years. Ryder and Emily hadn’t seen each other in six years. Ryder was now an FBI agent who was sent back to his home town undercover. Their was heartbreak and mistrust in their reunion.
I thoroughly enjoyed both characters as well as the suspenseful storyline. It was well written, well developed and kept the pages turning quickly. I wanted just a little more closure on the conflict, but nothing that detracted from my total enjoyment.
Hopefully we’ll see more when key secondary characters get their own stories in Cockloft (CeCe) and An Act of Salvation (Nick). I’m looking forward to not only diving into those but Lynn’s other works as well.
Loved it!
I enjoyed reading this book! Great characters, great plot!
Well written
A great read.
Beautifully written. I absolutely loved this book. I love it when a book makes me feel all the emotions and there were tears, laughter and suspense. Ryder and Emily were perfect for each other (as he kept saying as well in the book). It really felt like I was living in this book, I was completely drawn in. Just WOW ……. and just read it!
I enjoyed reading this book and will try to read more by this author.
Enjoyed this more than the other book.
I love this book about Ryder and Emily. I have no idea how I missed it when it actually released as I am a fan oh K.C. Lynn. I know Emily and Ryder from the other books with The Men of Honor series, but this one gives us the background of this couple. Dual point of view. Lots of action with a serious storyline. No cliffhanger.
‘Beautifully insightful’ is the first book that I read from the writer K.C. Lynn. I was intrigued by the blurb so I decided to read this book first and I’m happy that I did because it was a good story.
The story started with how Emily and Ryder met at high school and fell in love but sadly they got separated from each other through circumstances. And then six years later they meet again.
Can they take a second chance on love or is It too late for that?
The story is told from both POV. I really liked both characters, Emily is a sweet girl, who sees through the surface of people right to their heart. She isn’t blinded by beautiful appearances because Emily herself is blind so she ‘looks’ at people differently. Ryder Jameson, what a guy he is. He’s tough on the outside but on the inside he’s a really good guy. Something that he only lets Emily see. I really loved the way how both interacted with each other. The way how both of them always said just the right thing to each other. They really believed and respected the other one. Although the story handled some delicate subjects, the story isn’t really dark. The writer wrote about the ‘darkness’ but she never did it in implicit details or with difficult scenes.
I’m very happy with the way that the story ended because the writer have us a beautiful epilogue.
I have my fingers crossed that the writer decides to give us Nick’s story too in the future (he’s a FBI colleague of Ryder). I really would like that.