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REVIEW & GIVEAWAY: PERFECTLY BROKEN BY PRESCOTT LANE

Summary

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.

 

 

Excerpt

“Sometimes it’s better to push people away, so you don’t hurt them,” Peyton said, “and they don’t hurt you.”

“Bullshit!”

Peyton shook her head.  “I’m never going to be whole again.”

“That’s bullshit, too.  I won’t have talk like that, Miss Peyton.  I just won’t have it.”  Dr. Lorraine cocked her head to the side.  “It’s time for a change in direction — a serious change of direction.  This is what we are going to do.  You made a lot of progress with Reed – lots of good oral and other stuff.  But now you’ve cut him off, and I see you backsliding.  I don’t like to see it.  I won’t allow it.”  She stroked her chin then cracked her knuckles in preparation for some great declaration.  “I’m prescribing a little retail therapy.”

“What?” Peyton cried.

“Yes, that’s what I’m prescribing.  You get that friend of yours, Quinn, and hit the shops – Canal Place, Magazine Street, St. Charles Avenue, wherever,” Dr. Lorraine ordered, her whole body bouncing.  “I don’t want to see you in those sad, baggy ass clothes anymore.  Just looking at them, they mess with my head, and they screw up my whole day.  You ever think about how they make me feel?”

“No,” Peyton said with a laugh.

“Makes me sad.  I hate them.  So I want new shoes, clothes, athletic wear, undergarments!  Everything new.  Got it?”

“How is this therapy?”

“Honey, you’re hiding again.  You’ve flipped your sex switch back to off, and I’m not about to let it hibernate in some frozen tundra again for years.  We’ve worked too damn hard.  You need to get in touch with your sexuality without a man helping you do it.  You have to do it.  And clothes are the perfect place to start.”

Peyton shrugged.  “I don’t feel like it.”

“You don’t feel like it?  Tough shit!  I didn’t feel like getting my pap smear last week, but I did.”

Peyton smiled.  “It just seems like a waste of time and money.”

“Well, if you don’t want to do it through clothes, I can prescribe something else.  Maybe a pole dancing class?”

“I don’t think so.”

“Or daily masturbation?”

Peyton rolled her eyes.  “Fine, I’ll get the clothes.”

“Good,” Dr. Lorraine said, writing in Peyton’s chart, as if filling out a prescription to take to the drugstore.  “Among other things, I want you to get some power panties.”

“Power panties?”  Has she been talking to Bret?

“Sexy underwear,” Dr. Lorraine said, still writing.  “They can make a woman feel very powerful.”  She put down her pen and looked at Peyton.  “When a man wants to be taken seriously, he usually wears a red tie.  Ever notice that in presidential debates?  Lots of red ties.  Red is the color of power.”  Dr. Lorraine waved her hand and snapped her fingers.  “So get yourself some red panties, girl!  Take back your power!  Do it for yourself!”  She handed Peyton her prescription.

“I didn’t realize my power was in my underwear.”

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Erin’s Review

 Perfectly Broken is so much more than a romance. It’s a survivor’s story. Prescott Lane took a very real approach to a very brutal subject and at the same time wove a beautiful tale of romance and second chances all in to one story. 

Peyton is my hero. She appears fragile on the surface but she is stronger than she gives herself credit for. She is also smart, sassy and makes some killer pies! Wonder if she could guess my pie personality?? 

 There’s something about Reed that has you cheering for him from the first time he’s introduced. He’s funny, tenacious and hot as hell. He hides behind a carefree attitude but the truth is, he is hiding from his past, one that he hopes won’t haunt him forever. 

 The secondary characters are just as wonderful. Quinn is a ball of Southern sass and a spoiled brat but I LOVE her!! She loves Peyton and has been there for her though the darkest of times. Her brother Griffin has also been there and has quite a few things to say about Reed. Quinn’s fiance, Billy, that poor sap, is as loveable as they come and you got to feel bad for the guy as he and Quinn get ready for their upcoming wedding. 

 It was hard not to get frustrated with Peyton as she pushed Reed away time and time again. He was trying, but he didn’t understand. Peyton wasn’t ready to share that part of her past with him yet. Even her therapist, the unconventional Dr. Lorraine, gives Peyton grief and tells her it’s time. But Peyton is afraid, she is nervous, and she is terrified that Reed will see her differently than he does. The last thing she wants is a pity party. She wants someone to accept all of her, but she thinks she is too broken to be worthy. 

 Reed has to overcome his own struggles too. While not as traumatizing  as Peyton’s they cast a skewed view on his outlook on life, especially his parent’s marriage. Reed comes to find out not everything is what it seems and the one that appears to be the most fragile, actually calls the shots and is the glue that holds things together. 

 I love Peyton and Reed and was so sad to see their story come to an end. This book is a definite 5 star read. There are certain situations that may be difficult for some readers. If you are looking for a book that has it all, Perfectly Broken is the one, and if you don’t agree, the first slice of pie is on me! 

 

 

 

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