Bobby Beckerson was the American All-Star hockey player–he was the spitting image of perfection to his family. Goofy, sweet and undeniably gorgeous, he had everything but the one girl he wanted: River Ahlers.

River Ahlers is successful in everything but love. She’s been in love with Adam Beckerson since they were kids. Worst of all she’s stuck right in the middle of the brother’s dueling over everything and anything, and she doesn’t even know she’s the ultimate prize.

Adam Beckerson was a boy with a guitar, a smile that sunk girl’s hearts and a stone wall around his own. He was anything but perfect, and no matter how hard he tried he was nothing compared to Bobby. Sweet, damaged, with boyish good-looks, nobody thought Adam loved anyone but himself.

Bobby loved River, River loved Adam and Adam only loved himself–or so everyone thought. Then one night everything changes, and as it threatens to destroy everyone involved a tragedy strikes that will break them all…

Series: Beautifully Flawed #1
Release Date: March 7th 2014
Publisher: Show n’ot Tell Publishing
Source: Provided by Author
Reviewer: Shannon
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4.5 Cocktails

Wow!  What a ride with this story.  I generally don’t like love triangles, because undoubtedly the guy I like isn’t the one that gets the girl.  But this one has a bit of a twist, involving a girl and two brothers.

River has been best friends with the Beckerson brothers, Bobby and Adam, since she was a little girl.  She’s best friends with both of them, but her feelings for have been very clear:  she loved Bobby as a brother and Adam as so much more.    I felt a little sorry for River, because she just couldn’t let go over her feelings for River.  She watched women parade in and out of his life, getting her heart broken a little bit each time.  As she pines away for River, Bobby is always there, flirting and dropping little comments that very clearly make her aware of his feelings for her.  You knew she didn’t want to be put in the middle of the brothers, but because of the feelings everyone had, there was no way not to get in the middle.

It was hard not to love Adam.  He grew up being cast aside by his parents, who only had eyes for their golden eldest son, Bobby.  So thinking he’s not good enough, because his parent constantly drum that into his head, he doesn’t think he’s good enough for River, who he loves.  He goes about dealing with the feelings he fights by having a revolving door of women, but we know who he wants.  You almost want to fist pump when he finally grows a pair and fesses up to his feelings.

There was a huge shocker towards the end of the book, one that changes the entire dynamic of the relationship between the brothers and River.  Luckily, we’re close enough to the Spring 2014 release day of book 2 in the series that I can patiently wait to see what happens next.

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Cassandra doesn’t remember a time when she wasn’t writing. In fact, the first time she was published was when she was seven years old and won a contest to be published in an American Girl Doll novel. Since then Cassandra has written more novels than she can count and put just as many in the circular bin. Her personal goal with her writing is to show the reader the character’s stories through their dialogue and actions instead of just telling the reader what is happening. In 2012 she became a published Young Adult author, releasing In Between Seasons (The Fall, #1) and the Amazon bestselling thriller, Walking in the Shadows. In 2013 she branched out by using her artistic illustrating talents to publish her first Children’s novel, The Adventures of Skippy Von Flippy: Tales of Friendship (Skippy Tales, #1). Cassandra released her first New Adult novel, Love Exactly, which became an Amazon Bestseller overnight in June of 2013. She’s currently working on her new New Adult Contemporary Romance, Beautifully Flawed. The first novel in the series, Flawed Perfection is scheduled to be published on March 7, 2014.

Besides being a writer, Cassandra is a professional photographer known for her automotive, nature and architectural shots. She is the owner of Gio Design Studios Photography and Gio Design Studios Publication Marketing . She is currently studying to receive a degree in Marketing. Cassandra is happily married to the man of her dreams and they live in the rolling hills of New England with the other loves of her life their dogs, Bubski and Kanga.

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