A review by 1bookobsessionconfessions
Beautifully Scarred by P. Rayne

5.0

4.5 STARS

Lilah and Jimmy’s story spans from their traumatic childhood together, their tumultuous young adult years trying to make it in Hollywood and the years after Jimmy has become an A-List actor.
It’s a bit gritty, exceptionally emotional and heart wrenching.
It’s a story of two damaged people who share extremely painful experiences, secrets and a one of a kind love.
Jimmy is the stable, caretaker of the two. Lilah is self destructive and she numbs her pain with vices.
Both, are flawed in different ways. Their love is never a question, it’s very special and yet, their relationship is so very toxic at times.
I found myself riveted by their messy, yet beautiful friendship and relationship. They are complicated characters, I never judged their “bad” behavior. They were doing the best they could given a really terrible start in life.
It’s a story of survival and loving yourself enough to do the right thing.
The tragic and tumultuous times were balanced with enough lighter scenes between the characters and enough loving beautiful moments to be enjoyable, not so dark that it was depressing to me.
It has plenty of pain, it’s what makes the beautiful things shine brighter.
I really love these characters and their beautifully written journey of love in many forms.