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Title: Better Than Perfect
Author: Melissa Kantor
Narrator: Caitlin Davies
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-26-15
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: Teens, Fiction & Literature
Publisher's Summary:
They say the higher you climb, the harder you fall - how will Juliet cope when her perfect world starts to crumble around her?
Juliet seemingly has it all. Popular, pretty, with laidback, loving parents, a devoted boyfriend, and an effortless, straight-A report card. But then the cracks start to show: Her parents separate, which leads to her mother taking an overdose. With the stress of college applications looming on the night of her mother's hospitalization, Juliet takes comfort in the arms of a stranger.
Now her relationship with Jason is on the rocks, too. Can she piece her perfect life back together before the shockwaves threaten to collapse it completely?
Members Reviews:
Loved it until the end
Loved it until the end, leaves way to many open doors for me, I like closer at the end of books, this left way to much guess work.
Better Than Perfect
3.5 stars
(Source: I received a digital copy of this book for free on a read-to-review basis. Thanks to HarperCollins and Edelweiss.)
17-year-old Juliet has the perfect boyfriend and a perfect life planned with him, until her mother tries to commit suicide, and she ends up in the arms of Declan, a boy with a guitar and a band.
Can a perfect SAT score lead to a perfect life? And is a perfect life really what Juliet wants?
This was a good contemporary story, about one girls struggle to find what she really wanted from life, but it wasnât better than perfect.
Juliet was someone that I could really relate to. I felt sorry for her and the position her mother put her in, and I also felt her confusion and pain over whether her life was really heading in the direction she wanted it to. I personally felt under a lot of pressure to go to university as well so I really sympathised with her.
The storyline in this was pretty good. There were so many things going on in Julietâs life for her to try and cope with, and I liked how the whole book didnât revolve around the romance, although I have to say that Declan was so sexy! How this girl was supposed to choose between her boyfriend of 4 years and Declan was quite beyond me!
On the minus side, it was wrong of her to cheat the way she did, and to not really get caught doing it didnât seem very realistic. I totally expected her to get caught in the act! I also wasnât a fan of the whole âJ Powerâ thing which Juliet and Jason seemed to say to each other far too frequently, which coupled with the âpinky-linkingâ became a little sickening.
The ending was okay, but I didnât feel like things were really resolved completely. Juliet did make a decision about college, but that was all. I didnât feel like she made a decision about Declan, I didnât feel like she really knew where she wanted her life to go, I just felt like she was delaying things. That may be a realistic ending, I know plenty of people who still donât know where they fit in who are much older than 17, but it just didnât feel like the best ending for the book.
