Accidentally Perfect by Marissa Clarke – a Review
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Description:
Workaholic Lillian Mahoney has given everything to her job. The hugely popular lifestyle show she helped create monopolizes her time, energy, creativity, and anything remotely resembling a life. But all it takes is the show’s womanizing, egomaniac star throwing a massive hissy on live TV to utterly implode Lillian’s career in a New York minute.
Now Lillian’s hiding out in the gorgeous and completely unknown seaside village of Blink, Maine. Out of gas. A stolen wallet. A broken heel. And worse, she’s somehow managed to completely piss off the town’s resident hunk, Caleb Wright. She’ll show that hot, grumpy single father exactly what she’s made of.
But Blink isn’t quite what Lillian expects—and neither is Caleb…or his feisty teen daughter she can’t help but love. And while her entire life and career are in shreds, Lillian might just discover what happens when she gives her bad first impression a second chance…
Review:
Accidentally Perfect begins with Lillian Mahoney and her team doing a national “good morning” show on the east coast. The face of company Lillian has created is an ego driven jerk, but he fits the bill. As the face of the company is preparing a recipe on live t.v., he makes a mistake and then once the cameras stop rolling, blames Lillian for “sabotaging” him. He throws a tantrum that is filmed by lots of fans and Lillian finds herself odd man out. After discussing the tantrum with her sister (who is her right hand person), it’s decided that Lillian just needs to lay low for a few days and let things blow over. Her sister had purchased a cottage in Maine so that’s where Lillian heads……at night……not knowing exactly what awaits her.
Several hours later, Lillian finds herself out of gas and out of money due to her wallet being stolen. When she starts to walk to a restaurant that she sees in the distance, someone stops to offer her a ride, but she refuses, which doesn’t sit well with the person offering to help. He pulls away and Lillian continues walking with a broken heel and then in the rain.
Once Lillian enters the restaurant, she feels all eyes on her so she sits in a corner with her back to everyone while she tries to figure out what to do. What she doesn’t expect is for complete strangers to come to her rescue and ask for nothing in return. She also doesn’t expect it to make the person who offered her a ride to act as if he’s mad at her.
Caleb Wright is a lifelong resident of Blink, Maine and is immediately suspicious of Lillian. It doesn’t help her case when, unknown to her, one of the people whom she offers to help is very wealthy. Caleb decides that Lillian is running a scam and trying to take advantage. Of course, Lillian is wealthy in her own right, and her running a scam couldn’t be further from the truth.
Caleb takes it upon himself to watch Lillian and make sure she doesn’t take advantage of anyone he cares about. Lillian keeps trying to figure out what she did to make Caleb dislike her. Neither expected what follows them getting to know each other.
Accidentally Perfect is a nicely story with great and relatable characters. Lillian and Caleb have amazing chemistry from the first moment they meet, even though they both deny it. The secondary characters are well written and add so much to the story. This is a story where you can hear the laughter, the water lapping on the boats and the seagulls squawking. Most of all, you feel connected to the characters from the very beginning. I can’t wait for the next installment! Well done, Marissa Clarke!! Very, very well done!
Reviewed by Vickie
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