Before You Called Me Beautiful
by Yan Stellar
💖 A modern romance that explores a woman’s path from weak to strong and teaches how to rise as a phoenix after being bullied…
- Genre
- Steamy
- Chapters
- 30
- Status
- Completed
- Reads
- 532
18+Review by mydrama ·
Ava Lancaster is at her lavish engagement party, and she has everything she could ever wish for. She has a shiny ring, a beautiful dress, and the perfect future waiting for her. But inside, she is suffocating and unravelling.
When she collapses and wakes up back in 2010 in her teenage body, with braces, messy hair, she is forced to face the cruelty of high school. Ava must relive the heartbreak and humiliation of high school, including facing the boy who made her life a misery.
As the timeline blurs and her father’s broken watch starts to tick again, Ava understands this is not deja vu but the opportunity of a second chance.
Will she heal her past, forgive those who hurt her, or change everything she believed about love, herself, and rewrite it? You will love the journey this young woman will take you on.
Themes Discussed in Before You Called Me Beautiful
😈 Emotional healing after being bullied
🕊️ Self-worth and identity
🙏 Second chances and forgiveness
👧 Teenage love
Reasons to Read Before You Called Me Beautiful
❤️ Bittersweet, hopeful, and heartfelt romance
🧐 The wisdom required to give a second chance
🤩 Charming characters
👠 Modern topics female readers will appreciate
Meet The Main Characters
♀️ Ava Lancaster
Ava is presented to the readers as a fractured, emotional woman on the inside, yet her exterior is one of success and poise. After going back to her teenage years, she must face her deepest fears and wounds. She gets the chance to see herself with new eyes. Ava’s evolution is powerful, heartbreaking, and deeply human.
♂️ The Bully
A male character who made Ava’s time at high school a misery with all his bullying. He did not realise the amount of damage and hurt he was inflicting on Ava. He is charming, confident, and a complicated soul. Now, Ava sees him through adult clarity, and she questions everything she believed she knew about him. 🌸 This book explores the topics of bullying, which often marks the beginning of love in the teen years. Before You Called Me Beautiful will teach you to have boundaries and know your worth, regardless of judgment from outside.
Before You Called Me Beautiful synopsis
At her glittering engagement party, Ava Lancaster wears the perfect dress, the perfect ring, and the perfect smile, but inside, she’s suffocating. When she collapses and wakes up in her teenage body, braces, frizzy hair and all, she’s trapped in 2010—forced to relive the cruelty of high school and face the boy who once broke her. As timelines flicker and her father's broken watch begins to tick again, Ava must decide: is she here to fix her past, forgive it... or finally rewrite it?
Read Before You Called Me Beautiful – Chapter 1
Ava wasn’t the girl people picked first. Or second. Or at all.
Back then, Ava walked through hallways with her shoulders hunched, hoping no one noticed the braces, the baby fat, the shaky voice when she got called on in class. She wore oversized hoodies to hide her body, kept her head down to avoid the whispers.
Fat. Weird. Try-hard.
Those words stuck to her like gum on a shoe. She grew up thinking success was for other girls—the pretty ones, the ones with glitter in their laughter and hands that knew how to take up space.
Ava? She barely knew how to breathe in public.
Her home life didn’t help. A father who left too soon. A mother who worked two jobs and came home too tired to notice when Ava skipped dinner or spent hours crying over her reflection.
No one told her she could be anything. No one told her she deserved to be.
But Ava Lancaster was done playing small.
Silk clung to her skin like a second layer of lies. Diamonds danced at her ears, her neck, her fingers. Especially one. That ring.
Too bright. Too loud.
Nathaniel’s voice cut through the air, smooth as always. “To Ava Lancaster,” he said, lifting his glass. “The woman of my dreams.”
Applause followed. Smiles bloomed like roses on everyone else’s faces. Hers twitched into place a second too late.
“Breathtaking,” someone whispered nearby.
“Flawless,” another added.
But Ava’s heart didn’t beat like a bride’s. It beat like a bird in a cage, slamming against invisible bars.
Her fingers grazed the diamond ring as if to ask it why it felt so wrong. It stayed silent, cold and perfect, gleaming under the lights like it belonged in a museum—not on her hand.
Tropes
- Mystery
- Week to Strong
- Second Chance
- Suspense
- Bully Love
- Steamy