Perfected by Kate Jarvik Birch: Critics (me) say that this book is "stunningly bad"

 

Publication Date: July 1st, 2014

Read: February 3rd, 2024

Rating: 1/5 stars

goodreads synopsis

It’s amazing how I managed to entirely wipe this book from my mind, and yet when I saw it on Kindle Unlimited, I felt a glimmer of recognition nonetheless. Because I read this book. I don’t know when I read it, or even if I finished it at the time, but I know that I read this book.

And now, I have read it again. 

Great news! It’s bad.

The premise of this book is: What if there were some congressmen who had campaigned tirelessly to make it legal to keep genetically engineered petite teenage girls as pets? Specifically so they could abuse these girls with absolutely no consequences? Wouldn’t that be messed up? 

And then the plot of this book is: Wearing pretty dresses, eating lentils, and sitting on the edge of the pool & yearning for literally the first human boy you’ve ever laid eyes on.

Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid: Oh Dear. Maybe Don't Read This Book

Here's another cross-posted review of a book I read this month. I think this review has the dubious honor of being the first one star review of this book posted to Goodreads. So...that's fun!

I read an e-arc of Lady Macbeth through Edelweiss pretty much as soon as it was available for me to download, because I was very curious as to how a retelling of Macbeth that makes Lady Macbeth a 17-year-old girl was going to work. And I'm now forced to conclude that it...doesn't work, actually!

Full review below. I feel like there are at least a few spoilers, so proceed with caution if you care about that sort of thing.

At least the cover's pretty