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Book Review of Almost Perfect (Perfect, Bk 1)

Almost Perfect  (Perfect, Bk 1)
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Three friends decide to risk it all after a college roommate uses them as examples of how women let fear hold them back. In this first book, Maddy Hills sets out to get a piece of her art into a gallery, and as a stepping stone, she takes a job at the camp of her high school sweetheart, Joe, whose heart she broke when she put her independence ahead of his marriage proposal.

I enjoyed this book a lot, though I think it could have had about sixty more pages added to it. Joe and Maddy have undeniable chemistry and honest issues to work through, like Joe's resentment of the past, Maddy's fear of failure and losing her independence, and the fact that they live in two different states. Maddy is a character you can imagine beings friends with and she's a very real, very flawed woman. There were a few things that I would have liked to see more of, namely interactions with the campers, a little more sexual tension (they jump into that part of the relationship fairly quickly) and more inner dialogue as Maddy worked through her issues.