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3 Stars/5
Thanks to Netgalley and Spencer Hill Press for giving me
this book to review.
Hitler had won the 2nd world war, and everyone
has to conform to his version of perfection, fair skinned, blond hair and blue
eyes. Ellyssa has been created to be the perfect soldier, strong, intelligent
and telepathic but she is not perfect, unlike her siblings, as she feels
emotions, which she has been hiding and repressing for all her life. When Ellyssa
discovers her father’s plan for her, she runs away and encounters a group of
rebels who are seen as flawed in the eyes of society. She grows closer to the
rebels, especially Rein, but is she able to be happy without putting her new
friends in danger?
Perfection is an interesting and likeable dystopia with
action and romance, however, the first half was slow and I struggled with it,
but the second half was much better. I do not know much about history so I might
be wrong but, while I know that Hitler thought blonds with blue eyes were the
ideal, I didn’t think that he thought brunettes were imperfect, as he was one.
Ellyssa is a strong yet vulnerable character, and very naïve
as she does not understand emotions and how people think but she did get better
as the book went on. Rein is protective, brave and would do anything to look
after his “family”, however, I did not like the insta-love in this book between
him and Ellyssa.
Interesting concept let down a bit by the slowness of the
first half of the book. I would recommend Perfection to fans of The Darkest
Minds by Alexandra Bracken or The Host by Stephenie Meyer.
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