Review: LOVED IT
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 27, 2014
SUMMER'S BOOK BLOGPeyton Mayfield feels broken. After years of therapy, she is still recovering from a traumatic experience that left her sure she would never be whole again. She hides her beautiful features under baggy clothes and a baseball cap, not wanting to draw the attention any man. Peyton owns a successful pie shop, Adelaide's, and spends most of her with her best friend, Quinn. Quinn is a great friend and she has been with Peyton through everything but she is a little overprotective almost to a fault.Quinn's fiancé, Brett, works very closely with his best friend Reed Langston. They plan to meet at Peyton's pie shop and that's where the sparks between Peyton and Reed start to fly.Now, Reed is a major player. He has never been in a committed relationship, probably stemming from growing up with a father who cheats repeatedly on his mother. Reed jumps from woman to woman, never spending the night. He treats them more as a buffet then as people. He is gorgeous, smart and sweet but he has a secret, too.Reed can not believe that this woman, hidden under these baggy clothes has taken such a hold on him. For a man who ran from any kind of relationship he feels drawn to Peyton and returns to the shop daily to try and convince her to go out with him. Peyton knows of his reputation and she isn't willing to be another entree on his ever turning buffet. "You can try a whole lot of different kind of pie and never be satisfied. So you just keep trying all of them. Or you can wait for that one special kind of pie that can satisfy you with just one bite. So the question is are you just looking for variety, or are you willing to hold out for the real deal?"Peyton does finally give into Reed's advances and they go out on a perfect date. She really likes spending time with him and starts to feel like she hasn't felt since before the attack. Reed, much to his dismay, is completely satisfied with being with only Peyton even though she makes him promise they will take things slow. But will their scars from the past be too much? Can two broken people be perfectly broken together?Prescott Lane put a very tough subject on the table in Perfectly Broken. How does someone recover from a viscous attack and move forward? She gave Peyton so many strong qualities even though Peyton herself thought she was broken. Peyton was a tell it like it is, tenacious, girl who through out the story grew in a very beautiful way. Prescott gave hope to many victims through this story and proved there is life on the other side. Recovering from something so awful is the toughest fight you will ever fight but it is worth it!Prescott also showed us that you can teach an old dog new tricks. You should never judge someone by their past! Even though that is so difficult at times it is not fair. Was Reed a player? Yes, but he never cheated or lied. He was always very up front with his woman of the minute about where they stood so for all of Peyton's friends to come down so hard on him, it wasn't fair but it was totally real life.The plot was well planned and the story was written in third person POV, which was a nice change- very old school. The story had a great pace- just like Peyton and Reed's relationship and it had the perfect balance of emotions.Perfectly Broken was so beautiful. A story of moving on- putting together broken pieces. I loved it so much! I was sad when it was over!!