Review: Perfectly Broken – Prescott Lane

Even after years of trauma therapy, Peyton still believes she’s broken. She has little desire to date or show off her natural beauty, content simply to hang out with her best friends and run her pie shop in New Orleans. But her world turns upside-down when a handsome architect and self-confessed player shows up in her shop and thinks she’s perfect, much more than the usual hook-up. While Peyton does her best to resist his charms, believing she could never be enough for him, she can’t deny the obvious heat between them. With Reed determined to have her, Peyton must decide whether to continue to hide behind her apron and baggy clothes or take a chance and share her scars with Reed, a man with a playboy reputation and scars of his own — a dark past he can’t possibly share with Peyton, not after learning the horrors she’s endured. But if they can find a way to trust each other, and themselves, they just might be able to heal, to save each other, to live perfectly broken together.

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Release Date: March 1st 2014
Publisher: Self Published
Source: Provided by Author
Reviewer: Karen
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PERFECTLY BROKEN is a captivating story that grabbed me from the first page.  Peyton Mayfield lives in New Orleans.  She’s a young, pretty woman, still trying to recover from things that happened in her past.  Peyton doesn’t have any interest in dating and does her best to detract attention by wearing baggy clothes to hide her petite frame.  Peyton owns a pie shop called Adelaide’s and that’s where she first meets Reed. Reed Langston, an architect is discontented with his life.  He’s a playboy bored with his playboy lifestyle.  He feels unsettled, but isn’t sure what he wants.  He is a commitment-phobe who has never been in a relationship. Once Reed meets Peyton, he can’t get her out of his mind and he starts to pursue her.  Peyton knows Reed has a reputation as a man slut and isn’t interested in being one of his many conquests.  She continually tells Reed no, but, he is relentless in his pursuit.  The slow build up to their relationship makes the story feel real.

Although Reed is a philanderer, he is endearing and vulnerable once you have a glimpse beyond his playboy façade.  He is always patient, sensitive and sweet with Peyton and I loved that about him.  It touched my heart the way Reed was clueless, yet always trying to please Peyton.  I enjoyed Quinn, Peyton’s best friend and Quinn’s fiancé, Bret.  They were good for comic relief in this story.  Some of the things Quinn said to and about her boyfriend, Bret made me laugh out loud.  It’s hard for me to believe this is Prescott Lane’s second book, because she is such a talented writer.  This story has all the right elements for a perfect book, strong dialogue, realistic characters, a little angst to make the story compelling, but not too much and interesting secondary characters.  I didn’t want this story to end!