Wednesday, October 10, 2018

REVIEW: All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover



All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover




Synopsis

Quinn and Graham have a perfect love story, but their unique connection is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart, day by heartbreaking day. The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair. So do they risk it? Is their history worth saving?


All Your Perfects is a profound novel about a damaged couple struggling with a relatable issue – infertility – whose potential future hinges on promises made in the past. In Colleen Hoover’s inimitable style and brilliant narrative voice, this heartbreaking page-turner asks: Can a resounding love with a fairytale beginning survive a lifetime between two imperfect people?  - 





 Add to Goodreads





Is it possible to sue for emotional whiplash? What about lost wages or overuse of tissues? I mean… while I’m seriously joking about suing… my heart FEELS different after reading All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover. It feels like my heart has been jarred out of place. I might have missed one day of work due to reading, and oh my word, the amount of tissues I used should be embarrassing to even mention! All Your Perfects was the rawest and most emotional story I’ve read in years… IN YEARS! Ms. Hoover does not hold her punches. She comes out swinging with brass knuckles on and my heart, my poor heart, is feeling the effects!

Nothing I write will truly convey how brutal this book is on your heart. I’ll be honest, if you stuggle(d) with infertility like I did (do) than it’ll hit you a bit harder. It’s a sad and ugly truth and hits you upside the face like a full force semi. The struggle that is infertility is something that can’t be explained fully to someone that hasn’t experienced it. It is a heartache in itself unlike anything else. To be denied what should be a God-given right, is unfathomable. Seriously, you can’t even begin to understand the feelings that Quinn and Graham went through. Sex, which is a true and beautiful expression on love… showing and sharing your love with your other half, your person, it begins to feel like a mandatory event and it loses that “loving feeling”.

However, what Ms. Hoover lasers in on is the feelings of hope and eventually betrayal. I can’t go into that latter feeling as, hello SPOILER alert, but Ms. Hoover tackles feelings, hopes, and thoughts so perfectly. Hope can be such a touchy subject, a slippery slope for people hanging on by their teeth. Hope can be the perfect emotional boost needed for some, however, if you’re hoping for something that is nearly impossible. It becomes the one thing that keeps you searching for that needle in a needleless-haystack. It becomes destructive.

So, more on the book and less of my impressions and feelings because I fear I could go on and on with the psychology behind All Your Perfects. Quinn and Graham were incredibly relatable characters. I loved them, even though there were times when I was screaming at them! Quinn's mind was a bit much to handle at times and I can remember those days way too vividly. I wanted to both shake and hug her at the same time! All Your Perfects takes a realistic look at infertility and how it can tear a marriage apart. I've personally been there and done that but feel so lucky that my marriage survived and we have one beautiful daughter that came from our struggle, our love. However, the dark areas of this book are nicely swaddled inside the romance of the characters memories of their budding relationship. I’ll be honest; this helped the book feel a lot less harsh when it came to reading the most painful moments of their deteriorating marriage. All Your Perfects is a heartbreaking and completely endearing story that gave the infertility I struggled with a bit of an outlet.


I received an ARC of this book with the hope that I would leave an Unbiased Opinion. I was not required to leave a review, positive or otherwise, and my opinions are just that... my opinions.
 









About the Author
COLLEEN HOOVER is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Slammed, Point of Retreat, This Girl, Hopeless, Losing Hope, Finding Cinderella, Maybe Someday, Maybe Not, Ugly Love, Confess, November 9, It Ends with Us, and Without Merit. Colleen has won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance three times—for Confess in 2015, It Ends with Us in 2016, and Without Merit in 2017. Confess was adapted into a seven-episode online series. In 2015, Colleen and her family founded The Bookworm Box, a bookstore and monthly subscription service offering signed novels donated by authors. All profits are given to various charities each month to help those in need. Colleen lives in Texas with her husband and their three boys. Visit ColleenHoover.com.


Connect with Colleen Hoover






Twitter: @ColleenHoover


Instagram: @ColleenHoover


No comments:

Post a Comment