A review by Abi
The girl with the haunted eyes reentered his life on the other side of the lowering casket, humidity and the shrill song of cicadas tangling together in the South Carolina heat.
~First line of A Broken Kind of Beautiful~
Ivy Clark is beautiful on the outside and kind of ugly on the
inside. She's on a race to save her career when it takes a turn into washed-up
fashion avenue. She has the habit of validating her worth by flaunting her
beauty to get anything she wants. Including men. Sadly, Ivy Clark feels she is
worthless unless she has the fashion world to shore her up. As long as she
keeps her opinions to herself, and does as she's told, Ivy feels she's got it
made—until her agent sends her a place she despises—her hometown.
Until a man from her
hometown guides her through the back roads of honest emotion, self-worth, love of family, faith and friendship, Ivy was a wreck waiting to happen. Ivy
really did not have direction in her life, and was coming to a dead end. I
honestly did not like Ivy, until she began to open her eyes far away from the
runway's blinding lights.
The story certainly
showed growth in character and honesty—not quickly—but in a slow, believable
progression. I grew to love Ivy, and cringed at her bad decisions, then cheered
when she made the right ones. Just when I thought I had her pegged, she surprised
me with another spurt of her new found realizations, acceptance, and
inner-growth.
The only thing I didn't
like about this book was the "tell-everything-in-one-breath"
epilogue. It actually robbed the satisfying ending. I wish I had simply left
the epilogue unread. In my opinion, it isn't needed.
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
Page Count: 320
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