Beauty : A Novel (Hardcover)

from yourotherleft

Carol McLean grew up outside of Detroit, fixing up nearly beyond-repair cars, not pretty, just one of the guys. Well into middle-age, she's chasing the dream of running her own company by shuttering companies just like the factory her blue-collar father worked for when she was growing up. Her bos...

from musichick52

Carol is an employee of a NY firm that sends her to companies that are failing in order to kill them. Hence, she has acquired the nickname, "Beast." She was promised her own company after one last job by a corporate exec who trashes her to the bosses to save his own skin. She goes to a fishing vi...

from jennybek

I enjoyed this book. I loved the main character, dubbed Beauty by her fisherman fan. The details about the area the book is set in make me want to travel north and check out some of these fishing towns. A good, feel good book about overcoming many obsticles and gaining friendships along the way.

from Jmbusa

I don't review a lot of books (although I've been doing more lately). I rarely give a bad review, because I usually won't bother finishing a book I don't like. With Beauty, I kept waiting for it to get better, but it just never did for me. I get that the author knows a lot about business. That's ...