Reviews with content warning for Infidelity - Was perfekt war

I just wanted to preface that this book took me over two months to read because I lost interest at first and the main character, Quinn was insufferable but yet I had sympathy for her because of her infertility.

COHO tackled the issue of infertility both perfectly and imperfectly. I know it sounds contradictory but I don’t know how I feel about this book. I guess it was just ok.

I love that they made lemons out of lemonade at the end of the book. They moved to Italy and adopted a dog named, August. They came up with funny answers to strangers ignorant question about “when are they having kids or do they have kids”?

Oh I loved the LETTERS as well!! This wasn’t my favorite COHO book since this took me a while to read.

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kryfrh's review against another edition

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Loveable characters? No

2.0

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timedothwasteme's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

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emotional sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Emotionally-gripping quick read. Content-wise, this was a tough to get through. Tough relationship and marital topics explored here. My book ratings/reactions are never a result of characters because I appreciate when authors write imperfect characters because that's real. But I still need to comment that I dislike Quinn and Graham. Quinn was good at psycho-analyzing and knew perfectly well what was wrong in their marriage, yet she wanted Graham to love her more than she him. That was so toxic. And Graham is honestly too much. He comes on too strong throughout their relationship with how fast he moves and all the gran gestures. In real life it wouldn't be healthy.

He also gaslit her about his cheating.

And both of them have major communication issues.

While the letters were eloquent, all of those feelings should have been voiced out loud in real time. I was a bit frustrated with the "happy ending." I'm thankful that the epilogue acknowledged that the letters didn't fix everything.

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