Colleen Hoover - Ka Praleidau, Kol Miegojai (All Your Perfects - Lithuanian Edition)
4.5⭐
Genre: Romance, Contemporary Romance, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction
Original Title: All Your Perfects
Original Language: English
Translated by: Mykole Lukosiene
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Baltos Lankos
Date Published: 17th July 2018
Book Blurb:
My Review:
This book was hard to
read…Emotionally more than anything. It explores such a heavy topic that is
still not talked much about in our society but affects so many. I really
respect the author she took this taboo topic and explored it in her writing. Again,
the writing was brilliant, as usual with Hoover books and she managed to
capture all the right emotions at all the right times.
The book follows Quinn and
Graham, who are soulmates, or so Quinn thought. After a few amazing years of
being together, their marriage is slowly but surely falling apart. Both of them
are also growing apart. Quinn can’t seem to get pregnant and the idea of this
amazing little family that they have planned for years is slowly sinking. Both
of them now have one choice to make, to try and build their marriage back up or
give up and leave each other…
I loved that this book was
written in alternating timelines, past and present. In the past chapters, we
see the main characters Graham and Quinn falling in love, getting married,
planning their future, and experiencing all the perfect moments together. In
the present chapters, however, we see Graham and Quinn going through
infertility, miscarriage, crumbling down marriage and loss of communication
between each other. Both timelines give so much to the story, as well as shows
how the marriage and their love changed over the years and why.
A big part of this book explores
the topic of infertility and how it affects the main character Quinn day in and
day out through her 7-year-long marriage but it also displays the reality of how
going through something like that can change both wife and husband, and can
affect love the marriage has. It also shows how something like fertility can have
a devastating effect even on the strongest of marriages and loves.
Quinn goes through so much in
this book and I felt so much for her. She lost all the options available to her
to have a child and on top of that, she is constantly under pressure about
having children from her family and friends. As much as I felt for her
character, I also felt that if she communicated with Graham from the very
beginning instead of blaming herself and assuming what he thinks of her not
being able to get pregnant, they could have shared the burden and minimised the
hurt. In my opinion, if he was/is the love of her life then communication is
the key with that person, since no matter what that person will stay with you
and love you.
I can’t comment on Graham’s
character as much, mainly because there was not much of him or not much from
his POV to allow me to fully get a sense of who he is. From what I read I felt
that he was loving and caring but just found it really hard to communicate with
Quinn, especially as she was pushing him away most of the time. I didn’t hate him
but I didn’t really like him either. I also felt that this book was more Quinn’s
side of the story, her grief and her going through a range of emotions and
horrible pain.
I also really liked that Hoover
didn’t shy away from discussing pressures for women to start a family and have
children. I felt that this is not talked about much in any media, especially in
books, so it was a positive thing to see being discussed in a book.
Overall: I enjoyed this book,
although it was definitely not an easy read, what I liked was the discussion
about fertility, expectations for females to have families and children, and pressures
from others. It also displayed that love or being soulmates is not everything
in life and marriage, especially in the face of adversity.
About the Author:
Colleen Hoover is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-two novels and novellas. Hoover’s novels fall into the New Adult and Young Adult contemporary romance categories, as well as psychological thrillers.
Colleen Hoover is published by Montlake Romance, Grand Central Publishing and Atria Books. Colleen also has several indie titles, including Heart Bones.
In 2015, Colleen’s novel CONFESS won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance. That was followed up in 2016 with her latest title, It Ends With Us, also winning the Choice Award for Best Romance. In 2017, her title WITHOUT MERIT won best romance.
Colleen founded The Bookworm Box, a charity subscription service and bookstore, with her family in 2015. The Bookworm Box is a subscription service that provides readers with an exciting opportunity to receive signed novels in the mail each month from authors all over the world. All profits from the subscription service are donated to various charities each month. To date, The Bookworm Box has donated over $1,000,000 to help those in need.
https://www.colleenhoover.com/about-coho/
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