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A review by amarachireadss
The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry
4.25
I devoured this book, I couldn’t put it down and read it nonstop for hours. The writing was great, easy to understand and kept me interested in the story. This is a thriller and the main characters are a doctor and a nurse that foster and then later adopt a child that comes into the emergency room with serious neglect. I don’t even know what to say about this book but normally when I can separate it from real life but for this it was so real.
The couple deals with taking care of this child that is not okay and has issues surrounding her past and the neglect and trauma she’s faced. Bringing this child into their home causes the couples relationship to change and leads them to do things that aren’t great. There are a lot of themes dealing with trauma, mental illness, manipulation, child abuse and neglect so be aware if you choose to read this. While I was reading the only thing I could think of was that the child should not be in a home. They should have be in 24/7 therapeutic program or something cause i would have also gone insane as the parent.
The last 10 percent of the book was crazy, a lot of things happened, were revealed and it happened too fast. It also annoyed me because I needed to know more about the child past and I had so many questions. Read this book if you like thrillers, the author was a trauma psychologist and it shows in the she wrote this book and the character interactions. I definitely need to pick up the short story because I need to know more.
The couple deals with taking care of this child that is not okay and has issues surrounding her past and the neglect and trauma she’s faced. Bringing this child into their home causes the couples relationship to change and leads them to do things that aren’t great. There are a lot of themes dealing with trauma, mental illness, manipulation, child abuse and neglect so be aware if you choose to read this. While I was reading the only thing I could think of was that the child should not be in a home. They should have be in 24/7 therapeutic program or something cause i would have also gone insane as the parent.
The last 10 percent of the book was crazy, a lot of things happened, were revealed and it happened too fast. It also annoyed me because I needed to know more about the child past and I had so many questions. Read this book if you like thrillers, the author was a trauma psychologist and it shows in the she wrote this book and the character interactions. I definitely need to pick up the short story because I need to know more.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Violence, and Excrement