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A review by kylieenicole
The Perfectionists by Sara Shepard
3.0
*KIND OF SPOILERY*
THINGS I LIKED:
-i love sara shepard's writing style and i always have, so no matter the plot/subject of the book i knew that i would end up enjoying it.
-the exciting parts were very exciting. the last hundred pages or so kept me engaged and i ended up not being able to put it down.
-i liked the characters with this one more, they all had interesting side stories and the characters were more diverse than i expected (Iranian girl and Asian girl).
-jeremy was my favorite character. very cute. love that kid.
THINGS I DIDN'T LIKE:
-the beginning was so incredibly slow. i wasn't necessarily bored, but i didn't find myself jumping to read it. i kind of just got to it when i got to it.
-as a result of being very slow in the beginning, it was kind of hard to understand. not to get too spoilery, but the whole plot of the book is that these girls plan a murder but don't carry it out, but then the person they plan to murder ends up being murdered the exact way that they planned. it was kind of confusing because we're told that they slip him an oxy and then he's found dead, which is how they plan it, so how do they know that they didn't actually kill him? it's not until way later that we find out that the oxy didn't kill him, cyanide did, which ended up also being part of the plan that they came up with. i don't know, it was just confusing.
-book ends on a complete cliffhanger. nothing is resolved, we get no answers. i did end up liking this book, but when i finished i didn't find myself dying to order the next book and solve everything. my immediate thought was, "i can just look it up to find out who actually did it." still undecided if i'll read the next one or just look it up...
THINGS I LIKED:
-i love sara shepard's writing style and i always have, so no matter the plot/subject of the book i knew that i would end up enjoying it.
-the exciting parts were very exciting. the last hundred pages or so kept me engaged and i ended up not being able to put it down.
-i liked the characters with this one more, they all had interesting side stories and the characters were more diverse than i expected (Iranian girl and Asian girl).
-jeremy was my favorite character. very cute. love that kid.
THINGS I DIDN'T LIKE:
-the beginning was so incredibly slow. i wasn't necessarily bored, but i didn't find myself jumping to read it. i kind of just got to it when i got to it.
-as a result of being very slow in the beginning, it was kind of hard to understand. not to get too spoilery, but the whole plot of the book is that these girls plan a murder but don't carry it out, but then the person they plan to murder ends up being murdered the exact way that they planned. it was kind of confusing because we're told that they slip him an oxy and then he's found dead, which is how they plan it, so how do they know that they didn't actually kill him? it's not until way later that we find out that the oxy didn't kill him, cyanide did, which ended up also being part of the plan that they came up with. i don't know, it was just confusing.
-book ends on a complete cliffhanger. nothing is resolved, we get no answers. i did end up liking this book, but when i finished i didn't find myself dying to order the next book and solve everything. my immediate thought was, "i can just look it up to find out who actually did it." still undecided if i'll read the next one or just look it up...