Just not for me. This one felt formulaic. Like, for new adult, it needed to check this box, then this one, then this one. I just didn't connect with Kat. I did find her twist of a struggling interesting, it just didn't feel like a new story. Gavin wasn't nearly as interesting as I'd hoped.

I wish I'd felt the heat of their connection or felt pulled into their drama, but this one just didn't work for me.

A huge thank you to the author and publisher for providing an e-ARC via Netgalley. This does not affect my opinion regarding the book.

Thank you for approving me for this title! However, I unfortunately was unable to download/read this book prior to it being archived on Netgalley. I hope to read and review this book on my own soon, and hope to read other books from this author and publisher. Thanks again!

Requested this book when I first opened my netgalley account, many, many years ago. I'm a different person now, and my reading tastes have changed - so unfortunately, I will not be reading and reviewing this book. I thank you for the opportunity and apologise that it has taken so long to offer any sort of feedback/response.

I really wanted to like this one but I just did not care for it. I found a hard time getting lost in to the story, I found myself not being able to focus or connecting with the characters.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an ecopy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

I am way late in getting this book read but better late than never right. Going into this book I was expecting it to be an emotional read and it definitely was. What I wasn’t expecting was the steaminess. That was a nice surprise. Kat has had to go through a lot of difficult things in her 18 years of life. We learn about everything she has had to endure throughout the story and it’s not pretty. How one person can go through as much as she has and still fight and have some semblance of hope is amazing. She’s not perfect and she has her own coping mechanisms which is how she ends up meeting Gavin one night.

Gavin is a swoon worthy hero. He literally is the perfect man. Don’t get me wrong he has his own set of flaws but he is perfect where it counts. Neither one of them expect their one night to lead to a deeper connection but it does which in itself has its on set of difficulties because it turns out that Gavin is Kat’s teacher. Neither one of them knew this when they hooked up and Kat is legal so the relationship didn’t bother me.

There was one scene in particular that literally ripped my heart out. I almost starting balling. That particular scene showed how much Kat had grown and I hurt for her because I just wanted her to be happy. She deserved to have something good in her life. I loved how we got a glimpse 4 years into the future because it ended how I wanted it to end. I really loved this book. There are definite trigger warnings so if you have triggers I would look into those before reading this book.

this is a beautiful book about a very important subject matter. I cried all the way through. What a strong subject and dealt with with so much poise and sensitivity. everyone should read this novel.

I could not ever finish this. I tried so many times but it was over the top and unbelievable which made it hard to finish the book. I wanted to like this book as the synopsis was good but the story didn't match the emotion that I had when I read the synopsis. I tried so many times as I hate being a quitter when reading but I had to eventually abandon the reading process. Sorry.

The story was overall good but I felt like I've read it before?? Student-teacher romance is not my favorite trope to read so I was a bit sceptical to read it first. But the synopsis convinced me otherwise. Anyhow, in the end I didn't find any surprises or big moments to made this book any different from what I have read before.

Kat was an interesting character. She uses sex as a way to run away from her past and problems. She is afraid of relationships but when she meets Gavin, she felt an immediate attraction. Gavin, though being good, couldn't resist Kat's advances. Kat feels like Gavin is the only person who can fix her. I wasn't into the romance very well. I didn't find Kat and Gavin to be suitable for each other and the spark was missing between them.

But Kat's character was really strong. She knew what she wanted from her life. She had a hard past but doesn't play a victim role. She wants to make something out of her life and I admired her personality. Obviously she made some bad decisions, but there were a few good ones which I didn't expect from her.

I certainly would've loved this book more if I would have felt a better connection between the characters. I guess I was just not fully absorbed into the book. However, the author's writing was easy to read and had a great flow which kept me moving forward with the story.

I really liked this book. it was a bit cliche and predictable but I was still engrossed. Thanks Netgalley for the Arc

This book surprised me. I didn't expect to like it as much as I did. It wasn't perfect and there was some issues and cliches that I wasn't entirely happy about. Nevertheless, I found it enjoyable and was invested in their relationship. My main issue with the story was that the only way Kat could "fix her broken self" was by finding a man.

I had very high expectations before reading this book and maybe that was my fault. I don't know, I'm still trying to understand what happened.

great read awesome writing i really enjoyed this author and this book i would reccomend to other for sure

Beautifully broken was an another romance book that make me feel so much.

Kat meet Gavin in a bar and the quimical was so intense... The know each other that night and something more happen... But when Kat realized that Gavin is her new professor, she need stop her feelings but nothing is that simple.

This book was so good. I really enjoyed the history. The beggining was a little bit slow but then I read it in one day. The caracters were the best part of the book, they were so much complicated and I really love they relationship.

I do enjoy the student-teacher trope in New Adult fiction, so I was very excited to read this one. It lived up to all of my expectations: a tortured heroine, the teacher who loved her, and a few years that separated their initial meeting from their ultimate HEA. Usually stories like these go directly from the meet-cute to HEA, but this one was more realistic which I was thankful for. I'd highly recommend it to anyone who likes this genre and trope.

Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for the opportunity to read this book in return for my honest opinion.

I really wanted to like this book. It has such high reviews form so many others, but I guess it just turned out to not be my kind of book. I liked that character of Kat, and I did like some of the aspects of the book, I just found it babbled on about sex too much and I felt like the story could have been told in a different fashion and I may have liked it more. I found it was all wrapped up too neatly. It started out as a good book but by the end it almost had that cheap romance novel ending.

I had so many different emotions, while reading this book. I Highly recommend Beautifully Broken. Thanks Laura Lee for this Smashing book!!

It was an interesting read, to see what happens when people pretend to be who they aren't. Great concept.

The only way Gavin could save Kat, was to break her. This emotional story touched me deeply and had me shedding tears right along side of her.

So, this storyline has been done before in one shape or another so going in I expected it to be "just another" forbidden romance story. It really isn't. Don't let that topic fool you into thinking thats all this is about. I connected with Kat. Loved her friend Dylan. I struggled with Gavin at times. Not in an angsty way...more in an annoyed way. The first half of the book was good then it slowed down but kicked in high gear around 75%. The story was well written and I feel like I discovered a new author to ass to my go-to list

So many other stories interfered with me getting to this one. I really wanted to read it but so much time has passed.