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A review by thephdivabooks
The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton
5.0
YOU’VE NEVER READ A LOVE STORY AS TWISTED AS THIS.
You can find my full review and more at PhDiva.blog!
You know when you read a book and you know who you are supposed to like and dislike, and somehow you feel the exact opposite? That describes how I read The Perfect Girlfriend in a nutshell!!! This book is T-W-I-S-T-E-D!!! I sat down to write this and I wasn’t even sure how to begin because this is one of the strangest and most entertaining books I’ve read in ages—in a good way!
Told in first person narrative, Juliette tells the story of what happens after the love of her life breaks up with her. Ok, so maybe she didn’t handle the break up that well. But now she is giving him exactly what he asked for—space! So he will come back to her at the end, right? He will definitely understand what she did to meet his needs.
Juliette is playing the long game. She could arrange a meet-up at any time if she wanted to, but she has this planned out. Slow and steady. Stick to the plan. Everything will work out if you stick to the plan. And so we see her applying for Nate's airline, going through the long flight attendant trainings (seriously, flight attendant training at many companies takes about 8 weeks), and then building up her seniority on her flight schedule.
“Perseverance always pays off. It never, ever fails.”
Juliette should have friends to show she isn’t needy, right? So she makes a friend. Their friendship was SO entertaining! Amy’s reactions to a few odd things Juliette does are spot on, and then in Juliette’s monologue we hear her “I guess it was a bit odd…” Juliette is at a minimum a bit odd, and more accurately she is off her rocker.
And this brings me to who I should like and dislike, and I oddly found myself rooting for Juliette and all of her crazy ideas! She was just SO entertaining and persistent. And even though she is absolutely someone who needs serious help, everyone who has been cruelly dumped, bullied, or mistreated will find a small amount of delight in her revenge plots.
“You think you can use people and discard them when it suits. Like I was nothing. Like I meant nothing. Like we meant nothing.”
The writing on this book is divine. So much of this book happens inside of Juliette’s head, and yet she often doesn’t clue you in on her plan in advance, so we see it unfold in shocking real time. And here is where we should give all of the credit to Karen Hamilton’s writing. Her story is gripping and hard to put down, though much of it is inner monologue. And she also finds a way to humanize and make Juliette sympathetic, despite the fact that she is absolutely vindictive and crazy.
Thank you to Harlequin Books for my copy. Opinions are my own.
You can find my full review and more at PhDiva.blog!
You know when you read a book and you know who you are supposed to like and dislike, and somehow you feel the exact opposite? That describes how I read The Perfect Girlfriend in a nutshell!!! This book is T-W-I-S-T-E-D!!! I sat down to write this and I wasn’t even sure how to begin because this is one of the strangest and most entertaining books I’ve read in ages—in a good way!
Told in first person narrative, Juliette tells the story of what happens after the love of her life breaks up with her. Ok, so maybe she didn’t handle the break up that well. But now she is giving him exactly what he asked for—space! So he will come back to her at the end, right? He will definitely understand what she did to meet his needs.
Juliette is playing the long game. She could arrange a meet-up at any time if she wanted to, but she has this planned out. Slow and steady. Stick to the plan. Everything will work out if you stick to the plan. And so we see her applying for Nate's airline, going through the long flight attendant trainings (seriously, flight attendant training at many companies takes about 8 weeks), and then building up her seniority on her flight schedule.
“Perseverance always pays off. It never, ever fails.”
Juliette should have friends to show she isn’t needy, right? So she makes a friend. Their friendship was SO entertaining! Amy’s reactions to a few odd things Juliette does are spot on, and then in Juliette’s monologue we hear her “I guess it was a bit odd…” Juliette is at a minimum a bit odd, and more accurately she is off her rocker.
And this brings me to who I should like and dislike, and I oddly found myself rooting for Juliette and all of her crazy ideas! She was just SO entertaining and persistent. And even though she is absolutely someone who needs serious help, everyone who has been cruelly dumped, bullied, or mistreated will find a small amount of delight in her revenge plots.
“You think you can use people and discard them when it suits. Like I was nothing. Like I meant nothing. Like we meant nothing.”
The writing on this book is divine. So much of this book happens inside of Juliette’s head, and yet she often doesn’t clue you in on her plan in advance, so we see it unfold in shocking real time. And here is where we should give all of the credit to Karen Hamilton’s writing. Her story is gripping and hard to put down, though much of it is inner monologue. And she also finds a way to humanize and make Juliette sympathetic, despite the fact that she is absolutely vindictive and crazy.
Thank you to Harlequin Books for my copy. Opinions are my own.