Readers, this is going to be the last review before the end of the year! How do you feel? I would love to say that is time to terminate this year with a good review… but it’s a lie. Yes, this read was a big delusion for me.
Anyway, do you like the new banner I created for the reviews? I really like it ❤ Hope you will appreciate. By the way, I’m gonna talk more about the new graphic in the last post of the year.
Title: Perfect
Author: Cecelia Ahern
Series: Flawed #2
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 314
Rating: ★★
Celestine North is Flawed.
Ever since Judge Crevan declared her the number one threat to the public, she has been a ghost, on the run with Carrick, the only person she can trust.
But Celestine has a secret—one that could bring the entire Flawed system crumbling to the ground. A secret that has already caused countless people to go missing.
Judge Crevan is gaining the upper hand, and time is running out for Celestine. With tensions building, Celestine must make a choice: save just herself or risk her life to save all Flawed people
Perfect is the lat book of the political and moral dystopia duology written by Cecelia Ahern. And It was a huge disappointment. I really really really loved the first novel, Flawed, but the second book doesn’t have the same strength and structure. It was different but not in a good way.
I think that this book has been kinda empty: a lot of words for a concentration of emotion and facts that is contained only in the end. And that’s totally sad for my poor readers heart. And was the growth of Celestine, the main protagonist, in Flawed that made her dear to my heart. In Perfect I could do not feel the same.
I suppose that a good part of my feelings “this is a bad book” is part of plot’s fault. There’s politic, legal battles, contracts, black mails. And that’s totally legit. It makes sense if we look at Celestine and who she is. She’s a normal girl, with no particular superpower. She’s not a warrior. She just have herself and a lot of allies. But that doesn’t mean that allies are really going to help her.
But everything happens fast, maybe too fast, including some moral and soul changing. Also, many other characters pass by during the narration but none ast enough to make a big and decent impression.
Talking about the characters, well that was a general disaster. Not on Celestine’s side that remained much the same, surviving and confronting the doubt that wrap her own choices: fighting or running away. The bad parts are Art and Carrick.
While Art’s events weren’t such an incredible revelation, I had big difficulties to stand Carrick way of act. What he did, during the whole book, was getting angry. And so the romance started in the first book didn’t interested me at all.
So Perfect hasn’t been able to resist a confrontation with the first novel, both for quality and for the story. I don’t think that I’m gonna read another young adult book written by Ahern, unless the blurb will sound amazing.
