Hello dear Readers,
Below my book review of All Your Perfects: A Novel by Colleen Hoover.
Title: All Your Perfects: A Novel
Rating: 3/5 Stars
Genre: NA/Contemporary/Romance
Author: Colleen Hoover
Publisher: Atria Books
Publication Date: July 17, 2018
Publication Date: July 17, 2018
Language: English
Book Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us—whose writing is “emotionally wrenching and utterly original” (Sara Shepard, New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars series)—delivers a tour de force novel about a troubled marriage and the one old forgotten promise that might be able to save it.
Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart. The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair.
All Your Perfects is a profound novel about a damaged couple whose potential future hinges on promises made in the past. This is a heartbreaking page-turner that asks: Can a resounding love with a perfect beginning survive a lifetime between two imperfect people?
My Thoughts
I have read Colleen Hoover before and have enjoyed and loved her books. Of course I was excited to read All Your Perfects. One hundred pages into it I could see why it was said this was her best work yet. In terms of her writing style development it is, and I still think it is, however, in terms on how the subject of infertility is treated and presented, it was a complete disappointment for me.
Reason I said that is because it was so painful and frustrated at times to go through the pages. I could never connect with the characters. As much as I wanted to like the book, to somehow connect, relate with these two people, with all they go through, that never happened. Some of the key events in the book were not treated with the seriousness I would have expected. Some of the dialogues between Graham and Queen felt like they did not care. The excuses or justifications they give each other for their behavior or why they did what they did felt almost childish at times and that irritated me a lot. I kept on reading in the hopes that the ending was going to bring some sense but except for this thing that happens towards the end that actually made me cried, the story, the characters, the dialogues, never felt real to me. Except for the writing being better than her last book, but this book did not make it for me.
Wendy
I have read Colleen Hoover before and have enjoyed and loved her books. Of course I was excited to read All Your Perfects. One hundred pages into it I could see why it was said this was her best work yet. In terms of her writing style development it is, and I still think it is, however, in terms on how the subject of infertility is treated and presented, it was a complete disappointment for me.
Reason I said that is because it was so painful and frustrated at times to go through the pages. I could never connect with the characters. As much as I wanted to like the book, to somehow connect, relate with these two people, with all they go through, that never happened. Some of the key events in the book were not treated with the seriousness I would have expected. Some of the dialogues between Graham and Queen felt like they did not care. The excuses or justifications they give each other for their behavior or why they did what they did felt almost childish at times and that irritated me a lot. I kept on reading in the hopes that the ending was going to bring some sense but except for this thing that happens towards the end that actually made me cried, the story, the characters, the dialogues, never felt real to me. Except for the writing being better than her last book, but this book did not make it for me.
Wendy
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