This is a heartbreaking page-turner that asks: Can a resounding love with a perfect beginning survive a lifetime between two imperfect people? The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair.Īll Your Perfects is a profound novel about a damaged couple whose potential future hinges on promises made in the past. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart. Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. I know I shed some solid tears a couple of times in the book, not necessarily because something bad had happened, but because their love seemed so pure and so beautiful.Colleen Hoover delivers a tour de force novel about a troubled marriage and the one old forgotten promise that might be able to save it. It is convincing enough to leave you blubbering at least once. When you read it, you’ll come to realize that Quinn, Graham and the others are just like real people with real issues that bother them. Something I truly appreciated about this novel is that Colleen Hoover doesn’t try to make her plot cheesy or her characters deliver lines that can be construed as highly exaggerated.

Since it is an adult fiction novel, it is quite explicit in its sexual content.

The author’s writing style is neither full of ostentatious wordings nor too simple as to take away from bringing these people and their stories to life. That helps ease the genuineness of their relationship into the minds of the reader and I found myself, soon into the book, growing to love their bond. What I particularly loved about this book is that all the chapters go back and forth between two timelines – one when Quinn had just met Graham and another when they had been married for a few years. And since heartbreak is something that can very well bring two people together, I wouldn’t call it cliched.

Their relationship, although predictable, was a perfect segue from the disaster that was Quinn’s previous relationship. I’m not going to condone that kind of behavior.īut for the majority, he wasn’t egoistic or selfish or superficial in anyway. Well, almost ideal because that misdeed towards the end of the novel made me desperately wish for an undo button. While this book is all about learning to not shine too much light on your flaws, the male MC, Graham comes across as a near-perfect ideal partner. The people that adorn the pages of her books are some of the most realistic and relatable characters I’ve ever read! There is almost nothing about them that makes you feel like they’ve been copied off a blueprint of typical contemporary fiction characters.

Colleen Hoover’s writing never fails to tug at my heartstrings.

All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover