Pretty Broken Doll

Continuing on a TBR/Beat-The-Backlog kick (and ignoring my ARCs kick). Here's "Pretty Broken Doll" by Bree Wiley.

["Beauty isn't always whole.

Shilo
I’ve always been the outcast—awkward, invisible, a loser. My pet rat and my computer are my only friends. I've accepted the fact that I'll probably die a lonely virgin—until I pick up the hottest man I’ve ever met for a ride home.
An impulsive invitation, a strange encounter. He's way out of my league. Then he tosses me out, sending me back into the hole I'd crawled out from.
I didn’t think I’d ever see him again—until I walk into my new job two months later.
Turns out, he's my new boss.

Ryann
My life is an endless cycle of work, sleep, and meaningless hookups. It's been this way since I gave up my college dreams fifteen years ago.
One reckless decision—a disappointing fling with a stranger—shouldn’t matter. But when that stranger walks into my office two months later, everything I’ve built begins to crumble.
Because now he’s not just a stranger.
He's my new employee.
And my twin is dating his sister."]

The hurt-comfort in this was agonizing. My chest ached for half---nope, most---of this novel. It was sweet and fluffy and almost perfect one moment, and then Ryann is being an asshole and Shilo is crying and I'm crying. And then we're back to the feelings-not-feelings and the obsession and the possession and the nicknames (the nicknames!!!! D: ). It was a cycle of caring to spice to tears (not the best of cycles). 

Luckily, the kindness and the Feelings won in the end. The love (the oh-shit-I-love-him moment?!?! D: ) and the knowing looks and the HEA were hard won, but they made it. 

Trigger Warnings: depictions of eating disorder and body dysmorphia, puking, mentions of childhood bullying, bigoted parents, homophobia and homophobic slurs, mentions of parental death due to house fire, MC with mild burn scars, violence, and more.

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