angrygreycatreads's review against another edition
3.0
Perfect Love by Elizabeth Buchan is a women’s fiction novel, about Prue a woman, wife, mother, and stepmother in her forties, who begins to be lured into infidelity. This is a classic midlife crisis family drama novel, with complex family relationships and situations. There is also an awkward running Joan of Arc metaphor that really doesn't work and could be eliminated from the novel altogether.
I have read several of Elizabeth Buchan’s books and I have a strange relationship with them, I always find them very well written, with fully developed characters with all their flaws, and interesting plots. On the other hand, I would not say that I like them, if that makes sense. Her stories are too realistic, there are never satisfying conclusions, no neat endings, no punishment for the wicked or rewards for the good. It always seems like things just trudge along and end with the characters still having numerous issues to work through, much like real life. As someone who reads women’s fiction, for an escape from reality I am always frustrated, but I still keep reading them for some reason
I gave this book 3 stars because of character development and writing.
I have read several of Elizabeth Buchan’s books and I have a strange relationship with them, I always find them very well written, with fully developed characters with all their flaws, and interesting plots. On the other hand, I would not say that I like them, if that makes sense. Her stories are too realistic, there are never satisfying conclusions, no neat endings, no punishment for the wicked or rewards for the good. It always seems like things just trudge along and end with the characters still having numerous issues to work through, much like real life. As someone who reads women’s fiction, for an escape from reality I am always frustrated, but I still keep reading them for some reason
I gave this book 3 stars because of character development and writing.
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