Review: The Outlaw triplets, Booker, Boone and Braxton are the bad boys in this town and damn they sound delicious!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2014
A Perfect Mess was an sweet, easy contemporary romance read. I read this in an evening and enjoyed my time with this book and these characters. This book centres around Aubree and it all starts when she gets a call in the middle of the night while she is away at college. That phone call starts a series of events that bring her back where she doesn't want to be.I was heading back to the place where Booker Outlaw and I had collided one of the worst nights of my life. I trembled just thinking about him and what he'd done for me.My experiences changed me. I'd never be the same girl I was before the secrets and the lies. Before Damien Langston changed my life forever.Now here starts the drama. Aubree hasn't been home since she left for school, avoiding it all costs and immersing herself in her studies and work where she excels. She has always strived to be perfect. But somewhere along the line something happened and it was Booker Outlaw, one of the Outlaw triplets, a group of boys from a family that will never lived down the stigma attached to their family name (This is a small town that loves gossip and where lineage plays a big role). The Outlaw triplets, Booker, Boone and Braxton are the bad boys in this town and damn they sound delicious!We are pulled along with Aubree and Booker as they explore their feelings with each other while coming to terms with what happened in their pasts and the event that ties them together. Although there were a few surprises in the story, I suspected what the big event was from the beginning.Along the way we also meet Aubree's two friends Verity and River Pearl, these girls will be the love interests and focus of the two future books in this series along with the remaining Outlaw brothers. The pot is already stirring with tension and secrets between them in this book.Booker has always had a thing for Aubree and their attraction is mutual. So why exactly they can't and aren't together took me for a loop, but then it's drilled into you that she wants to be perfect and the Outlaw boys are anything but.The book was written in parts with the characters speaking with a  twang (Cajun?) that I am not familiar with and it was distracting at times, but nothing I didn't get over within the first little bit of the book and it added to their character. The author was incredible at describing scenes, feelings and what was going and going forward I look forward to seeing that in her other work. My only problem was that I never connected with Aubree and it is hard to become invested in a book when you don't connect with the characters and without that connection I just didn't feel the angst that I think the author was going for.Even without that connection I enjoyed this story and am going to be jumping straight into book 2, A Perfect Mistake the story that will centre around Verity and Boone <3 Gotta say, I do love these Outlaw Boys!