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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I loved Flawed but I think I loved Perfect even more. Cecelia Ahern is my favourite author and I love her writing. I was so excited when she announced she was going to write YA a few years back and I knew I wasn't going to be disappointed. The characters in this book are great. Celestine is great but I love the characters of Art and Carrick. There were some powerful scenes in this book. Chapter 61 had me crying because of a speech Celestine gave and just the last hundred pages were so tense and incredible. As a whole, I thought it was brilliant and I know these two books will be ones I read again and again. Also, this needs to be a film please!
buen libro. rápido, sencillo y con muchos capítulos.
me gustaron los nuevos personajes y los pequeños plot twist. un poco lenta nuestra protagonista pero se lo dejamos pasar.
el amor fue un meh, demasiado rápido para mi gusto
buenas últimas 100 hojas, no pude soltarlo.
un crack el abuelo y la madre
me gustaron los nuevos personajes y los pequeños plot twist. un poco lenta nuestra protagonista pero se lo dejamos pasar.
el amor fue un meh, demasiado rápido para mi gusto
buenas últimas 100 hojas, no pude soltarlo.
un crack el abuelo y la madre
I don’t want to spend too much time on this review and I’m still undecided on how I feel about it. I did like it a lot more than the first one, so there’s that. I think my overall problem with this series is that the premise of the story isn’t my favorite. To have a perfect society is impossible and not logical. The major theme of this series is “Compassion and Logic” so I just find that this series just didn’t need to happen. I can appreciate a book that makes me feel anxious, happy, excited, etc. and this book did. It has a strong start with an “okay” middle and an unsatisfying ending. It wasn’t terrible and I found myself enjoying it, but it just left me with an uncertain feeling and I don’t find that to be a good sign.
Celestine North lives in a society that demands perfection. After she was branded Flawed by a morality court, Celestine's life has completely fractured--all her freedoms gone.
Since Judge Crevan has declared her the number one threat to the public, she has been a ghost, on the run with Carrick--the only person she can trust.
But Celestine has a secret--one that could bring the entire Flawed system crumbling to the ground. A secret that has already caused countless people to go missing.
Judge Crevan is gaining the upper hand, and time is running out for Celestine. With tensions building, Celestine must make a choice: save just herself or to risk her life to save all Flawed people.
And, most important of all, can she prove that to be human in itself is to be Flawed?
Rating: 5/5 Penguins
Quick Reasons: this series has RUINED me; life-ruiner; my poor penguin heart is still pitter-pattering; emotional, dramatic, and horrifying; the moral implications are just spot-on; whoever designed these covers is BRILLIANT; I need this duology on my physical shelves
Huge thanks to Cecelia Ahern, McMillan Children's Publishing Group, and Netgalley for sending me a free digital ARC of this title in exchange for an honest review! This in no way altered my read of or opinions on this book.
"When you put food in your mouth, odor molecules from that food travel through the passage between your nose and mouth to the olfactory receptor cells at the top of your nasal cavity, just beneath the brain and behind the bridge of the nose."
I raise an eyebrow. "And when you swallowed the encyclopedia, what did it taste like?"
Okay, penguins.... can we just TALK ABOUT the choices the cover designer made for this series?! I mean seriously...these covers? Say SO MUCH about the story without really saying anything until you've read the books. For Flawed, we see Celestine from the mouth down. She is sort of bland, an unknown from the beginning--until she steps up and sparks a revolution. In Perfect...she IS the revolution, so we see her from the neck up. The colors also sort of play on this. She was perfect, "pure"...until she was found NOT to be. It's just.... GAH, whoever designed these covers? Did a fan-fracking-tastic job of it.
And this book? The closure to this poignant, powerful, intense duology? Delivered a hundred percent what I've been hoping it would. There are SO MANY moral and societal implications explored throughout each of these reads, but this second book brings everything to a head and makes readers STOP, SIT DOWN, and THINK about what's going on. It horrifies; it disgusts; it wrenches and tears in two every thought, every assumption, every feeling a reader could possibly be having at any point in the read. Everything is examined; everything is called into question, and then studied more, and then flipped on its head. And there was a LOT of head-flipping in this book; I think I gave myself whiplash trying to keep up with all the rapid changes and out-of-nowhere twists.
There's the person you think you should be and there's the person you really are. I'm not sure who I should be, but I now know who I am. And that, I say, is the perfect place to start again.
This is an intense read, though. The moral implications, the examination and redefinition of "society"....there are some tough, mature themes happening throughout this book. There is abuse of power. Obsession. Determination to "hide" or "right" a mistake. There is judgment, segregation, and political motivation/power struggles. All of this comes together in a fast-paced, important revelation. The characters are strong-willed and head-strong, the plot is heavy and nonstop, and the ending...while perhaps a bit TOO tidy...a poignant powerbomb. I just... I am in awe, and need this duology on my bookshelves PRONTO.
Overall, my first and second foray into Cecelia Ahern proved some of the best decisions I've ever made. These books changed my outlook on a lot of things, and are so, SO important in the messages they carry. This is a series I am proud to have picked up and fallen in love with, and I definitely recommend it to lovers of dystopians, political agendas, and intense reads. Perfect is bound to brand you, penguins--grit your teeth and wear the mark with pride. I know I will.
Also loved, I feel I was definitely more invested in the first book but this one was still great!
I love that this story is only 2 books! Book 2 has a good satisfying end. The series gives you a lot to think about.
This was a "Perfect" ending for a perfect series.
I love everything that Cecelia Ahern writes, this is her first YA series and she delivered according to the expectations. She created a world that was both, unique and unfair, were everybody had the legal rules and the moral ones, the last ones were by far the worst of all.
The story is filled with tension, plots, sub plots, romance, friendship, there is angst and self discovery, coming of age and much more.
I love everything that Cecelia Ahern writes, this is her first YA series and she delivered according to the expectations. She created a world that was both, unique and unfair, were everybody had the legal rules and the moral ones, the last ones were by far the worst of all.
The story is filled with tension, plots, sub plots, romance, friendship, there is angst and self discovery, coming of age and much more.
3.5 stars.
Positives:
I enjoyed the writing style, and the plot kept me on the edge of my seat.
Negatives: I was really not a fan of the main characters. Celestine annoyed me, and I just straight up hate Carrick.
Positives:
I enjoyed the writing style, and the plot kept me on the edge of my seat.
Negatives: I was really not a fan of the main characters. Celestine annoyed me, and I just straight up hate Carrick.