Book Review: All Your Perfects By Colleen Hoover


Book: All Your Perfects

Author: Colleen Hoover

Genre: Romance

About 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 twice--for Confess in 2015 and It Ends with Us in 2016. 

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.

About The Book

Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart. The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair.

All Your Perfects is a profound novel about a damaged couple whose potential future hinges on promises made in the past. This is a heartbreaking page-turner that asks: Can a resounding love with a perfect beginning survive a lifetime between two imperfect people?

Book Review

This is the story of an anonymous epidemic affecting so many families, and one couple’s struggle to save their crumbling marriage from divorce as life continues to deny them the one thing they long for the most. People are led to believe that a marriage ends only when the love has been lost. When anger replaces happiness. When contempt replaces bliss. But Graham and I aren’t angry at each other. We’re just not the same people we used to be.

Graham and Quinn might have met at one of the lowest points in both their lives, but the instant spark between them felt fated and impossible to ignore. Their whirlwind romance was picture-perfect from the start, yet when we meet them years later, we find them grappling with very real obstacles in their marriage, barely talking about their problems, and hiding their pain and grief behind smiles that never reach their eyes. 

Told in fragments, their story cuts between past and present, between their happiest and they are most difficult of times, to reveal an unflinching portrait of two people whose pain has made them forget their most important vows to one another. And every single glimpse into their happy past only makes their present woes all the more saddening to witness. 

As the whole story is told in her voice, in Quinn we find a woman who is drowning in grief and shame as she comes to terms with the very real possibility that her greatest wish in life might never come true. Time and time again, she hopes for joy but prepares for devastation, a feeling she’s grown accustomed to in all the years she believes she’s failed her marriage and her pain is so real at times, it took my breath away.

A marriage on the brink of divorce between two people who’ve forgotten how to communicate with one another, Graham and Quinn’s story is cutting and honest until the very last page, paced to perfection and incredibly relatable, and told in Colleen Hoover’s unique style, full of short, crisp sentences that pack a punch and a half. 

While not a ‘light summer read’, this wonderful novel will fill your heart with hope and have you dying to discuss it with someone else who’s read it. And if you’re anything like me, the ending will leave you smiling through the ugly tears. I highly recommend this amazing piece of art by Colleen Hoover.