Review: Delightful Story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 16, 2014
River is the girl next door. The girl next door to two very hot guys who happen to be brothers and more different than the sun and moon. They are her best friends, but she wants to be more than friends with one of them, only he doesn't know it. She sits by and watches as he dates bimbo after bimbo, each time wishing that the bimbo was her. Yearning for it, wishing it, hoping for it to come true. It kills her inside. To help her get over it, her best friend Tara throws guy after guy River's way. But none of them are right. None of them are Adam.Adam may not want her, but his hot hockey player brother certainly does. Bobby does everything he can to get River to be with him, to give him a chance. Any chance. But her heart has belonged to Adam since they were kids, now if only she could tell him.I loved the characters of this book from the very first page. These characters all have great chemistry, it's a great dynamic to read, but the entire time you're thinking.... this is a train wreck waiting to happen. River loves Adam, Bobby loves River, Adam loves.... well who the hell knows who he loves. Only Adam knows that as he keeps his heart under lock and key.Let me give you a low down on the characters... first there's River. The girl next door. She's pretty, has a great job, a great personality and is in love with someone who doesn't even notice. Then there's Adam... where do I start with Adam? See the guy on the cover? Yea that's him. He's sexy, sultry, dark, and mysterious. He plays the guitar, is super sweet, a player, a true artist and he has won the heart of his life long friend River. He is the black sheep of the family and loathes it. Last there's Bobby. The sexy as hell hockey player brother that is built like a God. He's funny, charming, sporty and is almost every girls dream. He is the golden child and can do no wrong in the eyes of his parents. He wants River, but she wants the other brother.Reading Flawed Perfection makes you feel like the friend stuck in the middle. You are that friend on the outside looking in. You get to see it all, you are the one who get's to see the whole story. And sometimes it feel's like you are the only one who knows what in the hell is going on. It's like seeing the love between two friends and both are completely oblivious to the fact that they both love each other and belong together. You just want to shake them both and force them to see what you see. Yup, reading Flawed Perfection is just like that. You want to grab these characters and shake some sense into them and help them see what you see. For most of the book I was torn between banging my head against a wall and smacking the crap out of the blind characters. I loved it and hated it. I knew where I wanted the story to go. I was just worried it was never going to get there. Good thing the feeling past.But after a bunch of back and forth and hair pulling moments, this story goes where you want it to go. It goes down the path that you want to force these characters into and it is beautiful. Of course happiness doesn't last forever and things happen to make the road a little rocky. And then tragedy strikes and leaves everything up in the air. You spend the whole story frustrated with the characters for being freaking blind as a bat, stupid, naive, or just plain freaking stubborn to have it smashed at the end.Flawed Perfection is a flawed yet delightfully fun book. It will frustrate you, but I promise you will laugh and swoon a lot too!*received a free copy in exchange for an honest review