Review: Poignant and beautiful my thoughts on perfectly broken
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 17, 2014
What a amazingly poignant book about pulling yourself together and fighting back to find confidence in yourself after tragedy and violation to you occurs. This is what Peyton has done with the help of her friends. She still is a little shaky and becomes a shell of herself but that is just so she can function and get out of bed. She makes herself stronger through running, more confident through her baking and when Reed enters the picture her world opens up like a rose in bloom.That is what Peyton is a rose in bloom. You don't know the beauty until it unfolds itself into the flower it is to become. Reed does this for her. Her sees her for who she is broken and all. He has a past too and that is something Peyton helps him with. Together they are able to find the courage and strength to conquer old ghosts and love in each other to support each other and just be.That is not to say the road isn't bumpy. I love how she makes him wait and wait for a date. I love how reed is with Gran and how they banter. The story about Little Mermaid cracked me up. I will not be able to watch that now with innocent eyes again. These two were meant to be. Peyton takes Reed from the endless stream of women and helps him find meaning in his life. Reed takes Peyton and wakes her up.A story of love and acceptance where the characters face adversity and pain in order to come out stronger and together.