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Yesterday I was fortunate to hear about upcoming releases from Hardie Grant Egmont at their roadshow. Kate Brown, marketing manager, opened by informing us that there has been an 81.58% growth in the children’s book market since 2003. When comparing this with the 8.84% growth in adult fiction and 6.55% decline in adult non-fiction, the […]

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Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry (September 13th 2011)
ARC: 544 Pages
Series: Impulse # 2
Genre: YA Contemporary
Book from: Publisher*

Everyone has something, someone, somewhere else that they’d rather be. For four high-school seniors, their goals of perfection are just as different as the paths they take to get there.

Cara’s parents’ unrealistic expectations have already sent her twin brother Conner spiraling toward suicide. For her, perfect means rejecting their ideals to take a chance on a new kind of love. Kendra covets the perfect face and body—no matter what surgeries and drugs she needs to get there. To score his perfect home run—on the field and off—Sean will sacrifice more than he can ever win back. And Andre realizes to follow his heart and achieve his perfect performance, he’ll be living a life his ancestors would never understand.

Everyone wants to be perfect, but when perfection loses its meaning, how far will you go? What would you give up to be perfect?

Review by Jess
PERFECT, by Ellen Hopkins is beautiful yet heart-breaking, magical and tragic, the title says it all, this novel was perfect.

I have read all of Ellen Hopkins novels and I was more that excited to read this, and I had very high expectations and those expectations were definitely met. Hopkins' writing is in one word, breathtaking. I found myself hanging on every sentence and every happening treasuring the beauty.

The characters in this novel were real, I felt like I could connect with the characters and relate their troubles to my own life which made the read so much more intoxicating. I loved reading Cara after already having read Impulse where her twin brother is featured. Getting to see the two P.O.V.'s was amazing.

I liked that the individual stories of each of the characters connected with each other in some way. There was not one point in this book where I didn't want to be reading it. This is a book you can read over and over again too. I was constantly anticipating what was going to happen and how each character would react to some situations, and there were some points where my predictions were COMPLETELY wrong and that is a welcome change sometimes.

All and all, this novel is a masterpiece. Ellen Hopkins nailed it AGAIN! If you have read Impulse then I highly highly suggest reading this, or if you love reading books you just can't put down. I am excited to read more from Ellen Hopkin in the future.

*FTC Disclosure: I received this ARC from the publisher. I do not receive payment of any kind in exchange for a review. I do not receive monetary compensation from any book links in my review.

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