This is the second book I’ve read by Cory Cyr, and I absolutely adored it. Her characters are rich and vibrant, and the story hooked me from the first page. The relationship between older woman Jensyn and younger man Lincoln was so beautifully crafted, even if it did start out with Jensyn selectively omitting the truth about who she is and what she looks like.
Jensyn was a top model before a car accident changed her life and she was horribly disfigured. Growing up in a world where appearance is EVERYTHING, Jensyn retreated to the quiet of compound in Hawaii, where she mostly lives as a recluse. Then, her therapist asks her to do a personal favor and assist his younger brother, a successful, adrenaline-junky writer who was recently blinded in an accident and needs help working on his latest manuscript since no one knows of Linc’s blindness.
He is a man who can’t see, she is a woman who doesn’t want to be seen. But they see something so special in one another, their age difference and disabilities don’t matter. The banter between the characters is witty when it needs to be, and tender when it needs to be.
The Perfect 1 reminds us all in a wonderful way that all of those clichés are true: Beauty is only skin deep and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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