review: perfect …

Review : Perfect …

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Introduction …

As part of ME Awareness 2021, I am fundraising for The ME Trust UK by taking up one of their challenges.

I am going to read 10 books in 10 months and will review each one once I’ve finished it. Below you will find the review for one of the ten books that I read as part of this challenge.

Why …

I have been sick since 1984. It took till 2001 for doctors to diagnose me with ME. Initially, I was mildly sick then moderately but in recent years I’ve progressed to being severely affected. I am housebound and often bedbound for months on end.

I really want to raise awareness and to raise money to help research #endME.

I am planning on reading ten books in ten months starting 12th May, which is international ME Awareness Day. At one time in my life I could have read ten books in ten days. But this challenge will be hard for me to do.

So please please if you can support me and help raise money for the ME Trust UK

YOU CAN DONATE BY CLICKING THE LINK BELOW:

ME Awareness Fundraising : Ten Books In Ten Months

Perfect by Cecelia Ahern …

Cecelia Ahern was born and grew up in Dublin. She is now published in nearly fifty countries, and has sold over twenty-four million copies of her novels worldwide. Two of her books have been adapted as films and she has created several TV series.
She and her books have won numerous awards, including the Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction for The Year I Met You.
She lives in Dublin with her family.

Book Synopsis … (taken from book cover, can be skipped ↴)

The thrilling, shocking and romantic sequel to the bestselling YA debut FLAWED is finally here. When we embrace all our flaws, that’s when we can finally become PERFECT…

Celestine North lives in a society that demands perfection. After she was branded Flawed by a morality court, Celestine’s life has completely fractured – all her freedoms gone.

Since Judge Crevan has declared her the number one threat to the public, she has been a ghost, on the run with the complicated, powerfully attractive Carrick, the only person she can trust. But Celestine has a secret – one that could bring the entire Flawed system crumbling to the ground.

Judge Crevan is gaining the upper hand, and time is running out for Celestine. With tensions building, Celestine must make a choice: save only herself, or risk her life to save all the Flawed. And, most important of all, can she prove that to be human in itself is to be Flawed…? 

Book Genre …

Perfect falls into the Fiction, Young Adult, Science Fiction, genres.

About The Book …

See above in the synopsis for additional information.

As well as the kindle edition I bought the audible version just in case I wasn’t well enough to actually read the book.

The kindle edition has 340 pages and at my reading speed a suggested reading time of 5 hours 36 minutes.

On audible it has a listening time of 10 hours 46 minutes. It is narrated by: Anshan Kala who reads Celestine vibrantly and captivating.

Perfect picks up where Flawed left off. Celestine is an evader, on the run. She is hiding from the Whistleblowers, and Judge Crevan is determined to flush her out using dirty tricks such as imprisoning her beloved Grandfather. The story takes us on an emotional journey where Celestine has the power to bring the Flawed system down and the dilemma of saving herself or all the Flawed. She is also reunited with Carrick and ends up on the run with him. However, she comes across her ex boyfriend Art and Celestine is definitely conflicted but has to make a choice.

Why I Chose This  Book …

I chose this book because I’ve actually read it before and enjoyed it so much. It is also the follow on to Flawed and Flawed is so good that you want, and need, to know what happens in Celestine’s life. It’s an easy to read, interesting and gripping, at times, well written novel. I knew I was going to enjoy the book because I did last time I read it and I was hoping to get to grips with some of the moral issues it presents.

How I Found The  Book …

The book definitely met my expectations and, as I expected, it was even better the second time around. It was equally as addictive as the first time and I part read / part listened to the whole book in just two sittings. It was easy to get lost in and to also feel everything that was happening. Can’t wait to read more of Cecelia Ahern novels, she’s a great writer.

Critical Comments …

As with ‘Flawed’, I can’t find anything negative to critic with the book or the author’s style. Both the storyline and the author’s style are gripping and excellent. On the other hand, I actually do feel that the style and themes touched on encouraged, in the reader, critical thinking of systems that are in motion, which is a good thing. If a book makes you think then it makes you question, which is always good.

The main idea that the book highlights is that if one person does the right thing it can be enough to set the ball of change in motion. So be brave people … you never know what can come from it …

Lessons To Learn From The Book …

Not everything that is accepted as the right way is the morally right way and sometimes we need to let our hearts move us instead of living from the acceptable norms of rules written inside our heads.

Favourites Quotes …

a weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place … (grandad Cornelius)

PERFECT: ideal, model, faultless, flawless, consummate, quintessential, exemplary, best, ultimate; (of a person) having all the required or desirable elements, qualities or characteristics; as good as it is possible to be.

there’s the person you think you should be and there’s the person you really are.

My Likes & My Dislikes …

See below …

Book Vs Movie …

No movie yet. But lots of Cecelia Ahern novels would make good movies, and this is no,exception. I’d love to see it turned into a movie.

Final Notes & Recommendation …

I really enjoyed reading this book. I found that it made me think deeply about rules and morals and why we often follow the rules that we may feel are morally wrong.

I would recommend the book to both its targeted audience of young adults as well as older adults too.

I also suggest that this book would be a great, and enjoyable, book for schools to cover in the curriculum. 

I found nothing at all that I didn’t enjoy about the book and so I had to give it a full 10/10 for every area that I score on.

See below for my most important pros and cons in relation to the book.

The Important Bits …

Perfect …

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Disclaimer

I bought Perfect with my own money and all the views and opinions stated are my own. Anything in the review should not be used as law, it is simply my own honest and personal opinion. It is not medical advice, I am not medically qualified, and should not be used as such.

Please see Reviews Disclaimer … for my full disclaimer policy.

 fragmented.ME xXx