Perfectly Imperfect
by: Harper Sloan
Blurb
Mirror, mirror ... who's the fairest of them all?
I still cringe when I hear that line. A fairy tale that had girls pretending they were the fairest, the most beautiful, and the most entitled. A fairy tale most couldn't grow out of turned my haunted childhood memories into a living nightmare. Girls who grew up believing that pile of garbage became the meanest of all 'mean girls.'
And those mean girls were right - it was a line meant for all the beautiful people in the world - and I knew the answer would never be me.
The women with long legs, flat stomachs, and perfect chests.
The type of women Kane Masters gravitated toward.
Well, that's definitely not Willow Tate.
No. That will never be me.
Because I'm completely imperfect.
And ... I hate myself.
I have no idea what Kane could possibly see in someone like me when he could have them.
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Excerpt
“Are you nervous right now?”
I nod.
“Tell me why.” His demand, steady and calm, gives me the courage I need to tell him. To open a vein and bleed my insecurities.
“I’m not perfect,” I whisper.
“And neither am I, Willow. I don’t want perfect. What so many see as perfect, to me, is fake. Perfect isn’t achievable naturally. No one, and I mean no one, is perfect.”
I’m shaking my head before he’s even done speaking, but one long finger comes up and presses against my lips before I can speak.
“No, let me finish. There isn’t beauty in perfection. It’s as fake as the image the word projects. Beauty is found in imperfection, Willow, because to admit you’re not perfect means you’re admitting you’re not whole and absolute. When I think of myself, I see someone willing to admit he’s as far from complete as it gets because, in order to get to that perfection, I need to find the other part of me who will make my life better. To take all the faults I have and fill them, and only then will I be there. You see, the way I see it, the only way to become perfect is to find that perfectly imperfect person who brings it out of you.”
When he stops, I swear I might have stopped breathing. How am I supposed to respond to that?
“Do you trust me?” he asks, his voice strong and sure.
“Yes, Kane. Nerves or not, I do.”
“Then let me show you what I see when I look at you.”
He brings his hands up, framing my face once again in a way I’m quickly becoming addicted to the feeling of. His warm eyes implore, begging me without words to let him continue. I do not intend to stop him, regardless of the butterflies currently taking over my system. I’m all in.
~~~Selina's 5 Star Review~~~
*ARC provided for an honest review*
When I first read the Dear Reader part I of course knew this
book was going to be a tear jerker. Then
I read the Dedication and I was like “Alright, Harper is just getting us ready”
then I read the Prologue… let me just say that once I started this part I immediately
regretted not buying that Kleenex box at bulk from my super market. It’s a bad day when you start using your
shirt sleeve to wipe off the mess on your face.
Especially when you get a knowing look from your kid basically calling
you a hypocrite with their eyes because I admonish her for doing the same
thing. Hey, I’m the one who has to do the laundry. Oh yeah and that tear jerker comment earlier? What a crock.
Harper freaking obliterated my soul.
You know when people day that they ‘ugly cried”? Well, there’s another stage that happens
beyond ugly cry. There’s not even a word
for it that I know of. The only thing
that I know for sure is I hit that stage and it was devastating.
Never have I ever read a book that I physically felt like my
soul was being ripped out. I also know why
this hit home for me too. I have a
little Willow in me as well. So reading
this cut me open and left me bare. I felt
thing that I suppressed throughout the years hoping to forget. At points I had to put the book down and step
away because what I was feeling left me so raw.
I’ve read hundreds of books and not once have I ever had a connection
like I did with willow. I felt her
sorrow, her personal disgust, her neglect from the ones who are supposed to
love you unconditionally, and her need for acceptance.
I can say that Willow is my new hero and Kane is the teacher
that nourished her.
Willow lived a life of cruelty after tragedy hits her
home. She was a conditioned soul that
was taught to hate yourself because that is what she in life received. But then came along a spark, a speckle of
hope in the package of Kane Masters.
Kane is a successful actor trying to branch out and be someone other
than an actor. He’s trying his hand at
directing and in trying to make his dreams possible he comes across
Willow. Beautiful, voluptuous, Doe eyed
Willow. He feels her before he sees her
and wants nothing more than to make her his.
However, with his life in the limelight he’s not sure if he can put
Willow in that predicament. Kane knows
that one thing is for sure, though. Kane
Masters is going to show Willows her true worth and he’s prepared to never
stop. But how can Willow stop being her
own worst enemy?
The dynamic between the two characters are explosive. I loved the side stories as well. The execution couldn’t have been more
perfect. When I read the last sentence I
was content. My soul was weeping with
lightness. I think Harper and Kane are
right. By creating this story you’re
giving someone the strength they need to shed their old Willow and become the
new Willow they need to be.
This book is going in my top five favorite books to
date. I’m going to recommend this book
until I’m blue in the face and then I’ll take another breath and keep
recommending. Thank you Harper Sloan for
sharing a piece of you and hopefully make a change in someone’s life. I know you did that for me.
About the Author:
Harper lives in small town Georgia just a short drive from her hometown of Peachtree City. She (and her 3 daughters) enjoy ruling the house they dubbed 'Estrogen Ocean', much to her husband’s chagrin. Harper has a borderline unhealthy obsession with books; you can almost ALWAYS find her with her eReader attached. She enjoys bad reality TV and cheesy romantic flicks. Her favorite kind of hero--the super alpha kind!
Harper started using writing as a way to unwind when the house went to sleep at night; and with a house full of crazy it was the perfect way to just relax. It didn't take long before a head full of very demanding alphas would stop at nothing to have their story told.
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