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[Following is a volunteer review of "Perfection and Other Illusive Things" by J Mercer.]
One day, out of the blue, Eden woke up looking like everything she wanted to be. Fuller lips, longer and darker eyelashes, thinner nose, healthier hair, and a skinnier body. What happened? Was it magic? Did she always look this way? She could only hope that it lasts because this new Eden is about to do things that the old Eden wouldn’t have even considered.
Let me just say it outright: I liked this book. It wasn’t perfect, but its imperfection is its charm. The characters weren’t perfect either. Eden started off sounding insecure and whiny. She hated her thighs, her crooked tooth, her nose, and her curves. She wanted to be delicate, skinny, and feminine. All the while, I was thinking “Girl, people would kill for those curves. I would kill for those curves.” At some point, I had enough of reading the words “kind of girl”. It was getting kind of repetitive, but eventually, she stopped.
Hawk was swoon-worthy. I love his poems, his laugh, his charm, how he talked to Reese, and everything else about him. He was the typical outsider, but a romantic guy, yet he made me smile so often without me even realizing. The problem here was Eden’s friends. I get that they don’t want to see her ruining her life, but it’s her life to ruin, isn’t it? All they had to do was be there, and they couldn’t even do that. Isaac, Wes, and Billie have a superiority complex and they live inside their little bubble. They don’t care about anyone else and look down on people that have fun. Because fun is lame, right?
As a girl confident enough with myself, I couldn’t stand to read Eden’s insecure thoughts. But when she started her journey towards finding herself and her confidence, I was inspired. I loved it when she started loving the parts of her that she hated and realized that the only one focusing on her imperfections was herself. This was a really good read, and I would recommend it to every girl out there, no matter what they see in their selves when they look in the mirror. This book will help them find their confidence, make them love themselves more, stop them from caring for what others might think, and stop them from comparing themselves to every seemingly perfect girl out there. Because newsflash: no one is.
Perfection and Other Illusive Things, by J. Mercer, is professionally edited. I found no errors, grammatically, or typographical. I’m giving this book 4 out of 4 stars for Eden’s well-written journey towards loving herself, and for making me love myself more. Perfection is indeed an illusion and no such thing exists.
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Perfection and Other Illusive Things
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One day, out of the blue, Eden woke up looking like everything she wanted to be. Fuller lips, longer and darker eyelashes, thinner nose, healthier hair, and a skinnier body. What happened? Was it magic? Did she always look this way? She could only hope that it lasts because this new Eden is about to do things that the old Eden wouldn’t have even considered.
Let me just say it outright: I liked this book. It wasn’t perfect, but its imperfection is its charm. The characters weren’t perfect either. Eden started off sounding insecure and whiny. She hated her thighs, her crooked tooth, her nose, and her curves. She wanted to be delicate, skinny, and feminine. All the while, I was thinking “Girl, people would kill for those curves. I would kill for those curves.” At some point, I had enough of reading the words “kind of girl”. It was getting kind of repetitive, but eventually, she stopped.
Hawk was swoon-worthy. I love his poems, his laugh, his charm, how he talked to Reese, and everything else about him. He was the typical outsider, but a romantic guy, yet he made me smile so often without me even realizing. The problem here was Eden’s friends. I get that they don’t want to see her ruining her life, but it’s her life to ruin, isn’t it? All they had to do was be there, and they couldn’t even do that. Isaac, Wes, and Billie have a superiority complex and they live inside their little bubble. They don’t care about anyone else and look down on people that have fun. Because fun is lame, right?
As a girl confident enough with myself, I couldn’t stand to read Eden’s insecure thoughts. But when she started her journey towards finding herself and her confidence, I was inspired. I loved it when she started loving the parts of her that she hated and realized that the only one focusing on her imperfections was herself. This was a really good read, and I would recommend it to every girl out there, no matter what they see in their selves when they look in the mirror. This book will help them find their confidence, make them love themselves more, stop them from caring for what others might think, and stop them from comparing themselves to every seemingly perfect girl out there. Because newsflash: no one is.
Perfection and Other Illusive Things, by J. Mercer, is professionally edited. I found no errors, grammatically, or typographical. I’m giving this book 4 out of 4 stars for Eden’s well-written journey towards loving herself, and for making me love myself more. Perfection is indeed an illusion and no such thing exists.
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Perfection and Other Illusive Things
View: on Bookshelves | on Barnes and Noble
