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Beautiful Liar Kindle Edition

by Tara Bond (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Responsible

Nina Baxter knows all about responsibility. With her father dead and her mother drowning her sorrows, it's up to Nina to take care of her younger sister, April, and try to hold the family together. But when her options run out, she is forced to take a job working for the wealthy Noble family.

Reckless

Alexander Noble is the rakish heir to an unimaginable fortune. Sexy, charming and entitled, he's never had to do a day's work in his life, and devotes himself to pleasure and partying. With a reputation for bedding a different woman every night, he doesn't appear to give a damn about anything.

Rotten

From their very first meeting, Nina knows Alex is bad news, and vows to stay away from him. But as their paths continue to cross, she can't help being drawn to his raffish charisma - especially when he makes no secret of his interest in her. For the first time in her life, Nina is on the brink of following her heart. But can she believe Alex when he tells her to trust him? Or is he just another beautiful liar?

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416 pages
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English
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Simon & Schuster UK
Publication date

May 7, 2015
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007MAN4LS
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster UK; UK ed. edition (May 7, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 7, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 521 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 416 pages

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Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2018

Interesting story

Sweet love story with an edge

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2015

3.5 stars

Nina knows nothing about life except that she must always be the responsible person. With an alcoholic mother and a young teen sister, the maintenance of her family falls to her. Unfortunately, her mother's alcoholism causes her younger sister to be sent to foster care, her mother to rehab, and Nina to the arms of the man who was her beloved father's boss. Her beloved dead father, who died in an accident while in the employment of this man.

But Nina is nothing if not practical, and so she gets a job, working in a nightclub, with someone she suspects should be her enemy. She meets Alex, a young, wealthy profligate and finds herself irresistibly drawn to him. Nina, the young woman with a ground, practical sensibility, can't fight the attraction.

The one thing Nina has always known is that she can trust her instincts. They tell her to RUN from Alex, but she can't. They also tell her to be far more suspicious of her boss than she is, but she can't. As strong as her practical, common sense may be, her need to live a little supersedes it. She's nineteen, and she's spent most of her life taking care of others. Isn't it time she get a chance to live a little?

If only her heart wasn't involved.

There is a sweetness to this story that isn't evident at first. Nina is tough, both on the outside and the inside. She does not suffer fools, least of which herself, and her BS radar is finely tuned. Yet when she meets Alex, she finds herself letting go of all of those rules, all of those worries. Alex gives her a chance to breathe and to feel free. What girl her age wouldn't jump at that, even with every cell in her brain screaming at her to play it smart and cautious?

The thing about Alex, though, is that Nina can sense a vulnerability to him that he wants to keep on lockdown. He's every bit as wary of Nina as she is of him, and he's also every bit as drawn to her as she is to him.

Like I said, there is a sweetness to this story that takes a while to develop. Alex presents himself as a Dionysian kind of man, one for whom responsibility is an anathema. Nina, on the other hand, needs stability. Alex's lifestyle will not help her get her sister back, nor will it help her mother stay sober.

So what will happen between these two? Well, I suspect you have an idea. Even with that sort of predictability, Tara Bond invests you in Alex and Nina's relationship and takes you on a few unexpected detours.

Oh, and she also writes some panty dropping sexy times. Strap on your vibrators, girls. Alex, for all of his self-indulgence, knows how to please a woman. BLESS HIM. Outside of the bedroom, though, is he the right man for Nina? Is she the right woman for him?

The ending may seem a tad too neatly tied, but the rest of this is sheer fun. Nina's story is a sad one, as is Alex's, which means you will root for these two to find happiness together.

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Jeannie Zelos

good drama filled NA read

Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2015

Beautiful Liar, Tara Bond
Review from Jeannie Zelos book reviews
Genre: New Adult
what I love about the NA genre is the drama and this book has it in spades! What I don’t like about so many of the novels though is that they also lack reality in many areas – sadly there’s some of that crept in here too. Its made for a mixed review though I really did enjoy the story.
Years ago a friend lent me a couple of Danielle Steele novels. we’d shared books before and both enjoyed them but these two – well I just hated how the heroine was able to go from almost destitute to a much more favourable position defying all reasonable explanations, and how everything fell into place for her just at the right time. There were echoes of that here in the way Nina goes from terrible accommodation to much better, how she is on what one would expect to be a minimum wage job and yet able to pay off a couple of hundred a week from debts to (cliché) Russian gangster-type loan shark, while still paying for a B&B and transport, food etc ( before the additional job and money) ....then later in the next min wage job is able to rent a three bed place in London for her family ( would be far out of her budget) ... the private clinic for her mum, even the uni options at the end, it was all just too easy and I need my reads to have an edge of reality if they are going to feel true. I have to mention alos that lack of condoms...come on, Nina knows he's a playboy type, sleeps around and yet no mention of condoms, in fact they can't use them as sometimes they just haven't time!! Bad role for authors to use in this day and age, safe sex every time please!
Against that there’s the characters – they were great. I loved Nina, valued her independence, understood her young sister issues, loved her friend Jas, even some “good” bitch types – I do enjoy those, and then of course there’s the delicious bad boy Alex....
Nina, she was a great lead, so giving, so supportive when many her age would have just abandoned the family to look after themself. She’s got a strong core of independence which gained her a lot of respect. That’s good – I like heroines that stand up for themselves, don’t take the easy route. She’s a hard worker and just kept on trying, even when it seemed there was nothing more she could do. Alex, he had me from first glance of those ice blue eyes! There’s something about him, bad man, playboy flirt and yet somehow we know he’s more than that outward facade. Sorting truth from fiction, reality from the appearances given isn’t easy. Giles, his older brother is a total contrast, and its very much Mr favoured nice guy good son v Mr playboy, flirt lightweight – or so its seems. It’s easy to see why their father favours Giles.
Together these characters made for some fabulous drama, incidents that did feel real as opposed to my crits earlier, and the story flowed really well. I love the way Tara let the drama extend into a good quarter of the book. Far too often its happy, happy, happy, then – oops, a hiccup, quick bit of tears, and over and done two pages later. This book let me wallow, let me feel how despairing poor Nina was, ( and Alex of course) she’s tried only to do her best for her family, but along the way fallen in love and then it seems life is out to bat her down again. That was perfect, a NA drama at its best and made the book for me.
Overall the good out weighed my niggles by far, and if those parts was a little more realistic, more rooted in what life is really like, and they used condoms!! - this would have been a five star read. As it is its a solid four, well deserved and very enjoyable.
Stars: Four, perfect drama filled New Adult read.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2015

Poor girl meets rich boy, sounds like a fairy tale.....Right?! But things aren't always that simple.

Nina Baxter has not had the best of childhoods since her father passed away. With an acholic mother and her 14-year-old sister to care for, she never really had time for herself. Nina has basically closed herself off to the world, in fear she would end up like her mother or worse having to rely on someone else.

So when she meets Alex Noble, an old family friends son. He offers to help her with a serious situation she has been placed in, with no fault of her own. But when sparks start flying. Is she right to keep him at arms length?

Characters:
Nina is a good girl, sensible. She like's to stick to what she knows in fear that everything will come crashing down. She will do anything to keep her family safe.

Alex is a man-whore, with a different girl in his bed every night. He's a party animal, but he's furiously loyal.

Overall:
What can I say, I was not expecting the twist's in this story. I was well and truly shocked. Beautiful Liar is a great read, which will leave your feelings running wild.

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AN ENJOYABLE PAGE TURNER...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 15, 2015

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Nina Baxter is trying to hold on to normality, supporting an alcoholic mother and vulnerable young sister April. Finding herself between a rock and a hard place she goes to the one person who can help her. Duncan Noble, her late father's ex-employer. Duncan offers her a job at one of his clubs and there she meets his younger son Alex. On the face of it Alex is a rich waster, someone who spends his time partying and bedding women. However, as the story progresses there are aspects of him that Nina finds totally out of character as her attraction to him develops.
Lots of twists and turns in this book, land secrets to be unearthed. I oved the way it was written and, of course, the wonderfully sexy Alex. I have given five stars because I really enjoyed it, but if there is one thing I would agree with - a couple of the other reviewers thought it ended too abruptly and I too would have like to have seen the story go just that little bit farther.

Derna Fearon

**3.5 stars** I like it, but I just need a little more.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 12, 2015

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*I received a copy in exchange for an honest review.*

Beautiful Lies by Tara Bond was a story about trust, secrets, lies, and responsibility.

At nineteen Nina should be living a carefree life, however with an alcoholic and a 14-year-old sister to take care off this wasn't the case. Life was hard, and it was about to become harder.

Alex Noble was a playboy, who loved the ladies and a life of partying. Unlike Nina, he defiantly lives a carefree life. Nina & Alex two come from different worlds, but when they meet they can't deny the attraction they have for each other.

“There was something in the way he looked at me –an almost penetrating stare that seemed designed to unnerve me”

“I never met anyone quite like you before. I find you intriguing”

I liked Nina, and my heart went out to her with all that she had been through he was a tough cookie with a great attitudes and fighting spirit. Alex had issue & Demons of his own, and I wasn't too sure about him. One minute I would like him and the next not as he would do someone to piss me off! He could go from being a Mr. Nice guy to being an a**hole in less than 60 seconds.

The storyline was interesting, with parts I liked, and parts I didn't. The author threw in plenty of twists and turns to keep the story interesting. There were some that took me by surprise, and others I did guess, but that being said, it didn't spoil the read for me, as I was intrigued to see how the story plays out, and if my theories were right. The attraction between Nina and Alex was there, but I felt that something was missing. I need more passion and sexiness between theses two, as what was there fell a little short for me.

It was any easy read, and I did become engrossed in the book at one point that I manage to get on the wrong tube and go five stops in the wrong direction before I realise my mistake. So it took me three tubes to great home instead of one. Ha-ha

"There was something in hi gaze that I hadn't seen before, and I could feel my heart speeding up. My lips suddenly felt dry and I wet them"

The ending took me by surprise as it felt it just ended. I remember thinking oh, is that it! I'm a big fan of epilogues, and this was missing from this one, especially as it was standalone. I wanted to see what the future had in store for Nina and Alex.

Overall, I liked Beautiful Lies. Love that it was set in London, as a West London girl myself; I knew a lot of the locations that were in the book! That's is always a plus for me. It was the first I have read by this author, and I would read more.

Mrs JL

A great read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 17, 2015

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A great read...Nina a young girl with far too much responsibility at such a young age...seeks help with an old family acquaintance the families stories entwine & the plot twists & turns had me gripped.Thoroughly enjoyed this book!

Mrs M.

Another good read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 13, 2017

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Again I have enjoyed this book

Emma (Book Angel Booktopia)

Gritty Romance

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 9, 2015

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Beautiful Liar is a gritty portrayal of family responsibility, secrets and how the most unlikely of relationships transpire against all odds.

With a UK setting and the grim portrayal of poverty, the harsh divide between the wealthy and the poor, Beautiful Liar is at times painfully realistic. I have to be honest and state the plot does contain a lot of triggers for me as a reader due to the nature of their mothers alcoholism and the struggle to raise emotionally healthy children while struggling to pay bills. The inclusion of statistics regarding children of alcoholics while providing depth to the plot did increase my anxiety levels where my own children are concerned having dealt with their father’s alcohol dependency.

Nina is an outsider due to her embarrassment of her family situation, she has assumed the parental role for her younger sister following her father’s death and mothers subsequent descent into alcohol. The way in which alcoholics become solely focused on getting their next ‘fix’ was extremely well portrayed. The deceit and selfishness was realistically portrayed within the narrative and very relatable (Unfortunately). Nina is understandably guarded where her emotions are concerned. Trust is a difficult thing for her to give due to the constant broken promises she has experienced.

Alex, on the other hand, is the epitome of a self-fulfilling prophecy. The poor, little rich boy acting out in order to gain Daddy’s attention. He exaggerates all of his bad qualities and does not take rejection well. In all honesty, I could not understand the attraction between Alex and Nina as they were so different. Maybe, that is the attraction *shrugs* Alex cultivates his image to gain the most impact. There are glimmers of the person he could become under the surface but just as I started to like him something would happen to make me dislike him even further. For me, Alex will not be joining my harem of book boyfriends 😉

This isn’t your standard romance, there are a lot of obstacles on both sides preventing a smooth, calm relationship. Least of all is the family issues shrouded in secrecy. The pacing is compelling, keeping you reading in order to uncover not only the secrets hinted at within the narrative but also to break through the barriers both characters have in place.

If you are looking for warm and fuzzy romance then Beautiful Liar isn’t for you. If you like your romance fraught with tension and a lot of angst, you will devour Beautiful Liar.