A soaring career…A fractured heart…Aspiring author, Callie Clark, finally achieves her most-coveted goal, landing a contract with a highly sought-after publishing company. Reeling from the pain of a broken heart, Callie puts her love life on hold.Focused solely on her career, the dream she’s faithfully held onto becomes taunting, and the higher she climbs, the faster she falls.When tragedy … she falls.
When tragedy turns to triumph, Callie learns to open her heart again. But it might be too late when a ghost from her past haunts her present and threatens the dream she clings to and everything she loves.
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Stephie Walls is still a fairly new author for me, I had the pleasure of reading Girl Crush. But, this one was a totally different side of this author. And it was a side that I absolutely loved and want more of.
Beauty Mark was a story that took me through an aray of emotions with each new chapter. I found myself falling i love with the characters. There wasn’t a part that I did not love about this one, even when there was parts that hit pretty close to home for me. I found a comfort in the characters weaknesses and insecurities and how she was able to overcome them. Stephie has away of making the characters be ones that can be relatable to the reader.
I found myself engrossed in Callie’s story. Through her heartache and pain when it came to Davis. There was times that I was on the verge of screaming and making threats towards Davis’s character and all because I was so engrossed in the story. If Davis was a physical person I would of actually hurt him, if he did something like what he did to my friend. There was times that I also wanted to just grab and shake Callie and tell her to open her eyes to what was in front of her and to open herself up to love again. Liam was also a character that I found that I instantly loved and was rooting for one chapter then wanting to throat punch in another.
Beauty Mark is a rollercoaster of emotions that is well worth it, and one that I would recommend to someone that is going through heartache. This story is one about heartache, but it is also about finding the strength in yourself to find your on happy ending.
Beauty Mark had me hooked from the Prologue. Callie Clark had accomplished a good career in writing romance novels, lived in a house she adored along with her two best friends, and loved helping raise her friend’s young son. What she hadn’t been able to accomplish is getting over the heartbreak of losing her first and only love of her life. But after all this time, there he stood. She felt his presence before she saw him. The moment their stares meet—they had the same connection they always had. It was as if they never spent a day apart, despite it being eight plus years. Less than an arm’s length in front of her now stands Davis Inman. The only man she’d ever been in love with. The one she silently longed for, the one she compared every man thereafter to. And this is just the Prologue!!
Ten years earlier Callie had hated her job and wanted a career change. So she just up and quit her job, and decided to be an author. It was not quite as easy as just grabbing her laptop and going to Starbucks to write. But at Starbucks is where she did met Davis. The chemistry was undeniable and her life would never be the same. For nearly two years, she would love every moment of time with him. She saw him as part of her being, unsure where she ended and he began, and her life revolved around him. On their two year anniversary, the unthinkable happens……
I really enjoyed this book! It had all the “feels” with lots of angst. I like the writing and my favorite quote, “If I can’t purchase it on Amazon and have it shipped to me, I don’t need it.” This is so me!!
Reeling from the pain of a broken heart,Callie puts her love life on hold. Wow, is all I have to say as I don’t know where to start with this one without giving anything away. This is the first book I have read from this author and will not be the last. A tear jerker, highly emotional novel that will have you in a roller coaster of emotions. A beautifully written and developed novel with no plot holes. With compelling characters that are realistic with real emotions and flaws. I could not put this book down as I was hooked right from the beginning. A unexpected & beautiful love story journey to find acceptance, growth, & your place in society. With many twists & turns that will keep you captivated. A sweet & sexy spicy read that you won’t be able to put down. I highly recommend reading this amazing novel as you will not be disappointed.
This is the first book I have read by Stephie Walls, but you can be sure I will be checking out her prior work on Amazon very, very soon. I was pulled into Callie’s story from page 1 and didn’t want to put it down. Callie and Hayden’s friendship is amazing and one I sure wish I had in my life, someone who loves you unconditionally faults, mistakes and all. I laughed, cried, screamed and yelled while reading Beauty Mark and loved how Stephie’s writing style pulled me into the story. Not many books make me cry, but this one did in both good and bad ways. The relationships with Davis and Liam are both similar and vastly different and the emotions surrounding both are so well written that I felt everything Callie was feeling. I hope that we are gifted with Hayden’s story so we can also see what happens with Callie. Great emotional read
Don’t let the page count fool you. This is a quick read!
Such an amazing story!! No words to describe all of the emotions felt. It is much more than just a roller-coaster, more like a long, yet seemingly short, road trip through the mountains…
I can’t write an in depth review without some type of spoiler so I will just tell you how much I loved Beauty Mark. I love the the story Stephie created for her readers.
Callie’s story is told over numerous years and it flowed wonderfully. Stephie brought some amazing characters to life. It was impossible not to fall in love with all of them, especially Tripp. There wasn’t a part of this story I couldn’t relate to or feel like I was a part of, from the friendships, the romances, the good & the bad experiences, the struggles of Callie & Hayden.
Stephie as always makes you feel all the emotions behind her words.
A+ Stephie Walls…….