Review: Perfectly Broken
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 9, 2014
Peyton, a young girl who used to be carefree and fun loving is now just a former shell of herself. She is super shy and keeps to herself and is just trying to get through each day. She is dealing with a trauma that happened to her years ago. While dealing with the repercussions of a brutal attack that happened to her, she runs her own bakery/pie shop. She has a ridiculously funny therapist who I LOVE and wish she really did exist so I could go to her just so she could make me laugh! The s*** that came out of her mouth had me laughing out loud more than once. As well as having a best friend who has stood by her side and has been like a sister to her. Not exactly the most exciting life but it’s a life. Every once in a while you do see a glimmer of the old Peyton but just as quickly she shuts it down. She blames her former self for her attack and thinks if she is her “new” self (which is dressing in baggy clothes and being an introvert) nothing will ever hurt her again. Ugh…my heart hurt for her at times during this book. I loved that even though she had been through hell and back, she wasn’t whiny or self absorbed. She had picked up the pieces and forged ahead trying to have the best and most normal life she would allow herself to have. She does not let her past define who she is today.Reed Langston is the town’s rich, hot, playboy and he makes no apologies about it. He lets women know ahead of time that he is not the relationship type of guy and is very straightforward with them. He also has his own demons that he deals with and because of them can not get close to any one women. These demons have shaped and molded him into who he is today and he is ok with that, well to a certain degree…that is until he meets Peyton. While you would expect him to be an arrogant D*#k, he is far from it and you see “you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover” in every sense of the words.From the minute he meets Peyton he is relentless in pursuing her…I mean relentless. But not in a super stalker, get a restraining order, creepy way, I mean in some of the most sweetest and funniest of ways. He is up there on the book boyfriend list for me!! Naturally because she has such walls built up, she wants nothing to do with his advances and refuses him at every turn but is quite amused by them. Naturally, the charming Reed wears her down and she gives in and goes out with him.“You’re not a buffet to me, you’re a five star meal” LOL…well played Reed, well played.As Peyton starts to let her walls down and she starts to let Reed in she realizes that maybe she can have a normal relationship but her past still looms over her head and she debates when and if she should tell Reed about her attack. She feels that when he finds out, he will not want used goods and feel she is dirty and not someone he would want a serious relationship with and she has an internal battle to tell him. Reed also has a past he is hiding and is struggling to decide how and if he will tell Peyton. You would think that this would be frustrating seeing them both struggling but it wasn’t, it felt very natural and not over done.The foundation and structure of their relationship is one of the sweetest I have read and I loved it. These two are compassionate, loving, patient, kind and I truly feel are meant to be together from the moment they met…They are each others missing puzzle pieces. Will that bond they have built be strong enough for them to come clean with each other. Will they be able to heal each other and move forward together? Will Peyton realize that she is worth loving and let Reed into her heart? I will say it is an interesting journey with heartache, healing, many laughs, and I loved every page. Such a sweet love story!I am looking forward to reading more about this group in the future!