All Your Perfects: A Novel: 4 (Hopeless)

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If you’ve read Colleen’s Hopeless trilogy ( Hopeless, Losing Hope, and Finding Cinderella), you may notice a special cameo in the Epilogue. If you know Six’s story, what could this connection potentially mean for Quinn and Graham? Our marriage didn’t collapse. It didn’t suddenly fall apart. It’s been a much slower process. It’s been dwindling, if you will. I’m not even sure who is most at fault.” When you meet someone who is good for you, they won't fill you with insecurities by focusing on your flaws. They'll fill you with inspiration, because they'll focus on all the best parts of you." My thoughts on this book are complicated. There are so many things about this book that were contradictions for me. I loved it and hated it at the same time. I could relate to the story and the main characters in ways I’ve never related to another book/character, yet there were many choices made and things done I couldn’t relate to at all. When it’s all said and done, this is the journey of Graham and Quinn. And I could never judge this couple on how they handled the hand the had been dealt. Unless you’ve walked a mile in their shoes, neither could you. It’s a sarcastic question, but I immediately see the regret in his eyes after he says it. That’s nice of him—finding it in himself to feel compassion for me when he’s obviously experiencing the same thing. “I followed them,” he says. “They’re in there together. My girlfriend and your . . . boyfriend.”

God! perfect is His way, The saying of Jehovah is tried, A shield is He to all those trusting in Him. What role did the box play in Quinn and Graham’s relationship? Do you think all couples should go through a similar exercise? I did get emotional but I didn't cry and that was only because of Graham's character and his affection/words. Graham deserves someone better than Quinn and I stand by that. Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart. The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair. I also just felt so bad for Quinn too because she wanted to talk to someone when Graham cheated on her, but it was hard for her to open up to her mom. I understood why. It’s hard to talk to someone who never cared much about you, but themselves more. I wanted to give Quinn a hug when she sat on the front steps of her mom’s house, too scared to go in because she would feel trapped. If that’s not heartbreaking, I don’t know what is 😿 But past Graham was so sweet about meeting the mom because he knew how nervous Quinn was. He eased her mind by saying she could blame wedding things on him because the mom’s going to hate him anyway, so might as we’ll give her a reason. Like how sweet. But the absolute best thing was when he told her how he was inspired or amazed by her in how she turned out despite growing up in a very harsh environment. That was the moment they said I love you to each other, and it was just the best moment for them to do that when they saw each other for their strengths and not their weaknesses. Get you a man or woman who can see you as you are: strong.Graham has brought the box containing their letters with him. Even though Graham is angry that their relationship has crumbled to the point that they are opening the box early, Quinn reads the letters Graham has written to her. He added letters explaining things she never really wanted to hear. In these letters, Graham tells Quinn how devastated he was for her that she was never able to become pregnant. He explains how he ached for her when people asked insensitive questions about when they were going to have a child. Graham tells Quinn that he had an affair because he had reached a point where he believed he would never be enough for Quinn if they were unable to have a child. I'm going to take a moment here to state upfront how raw this review will be, because this book focused on a subject that has made my heart both hard and tender over the years- infertility. I put off reading this book until the last second before a review was needed (I'm so sorry if I made you nervous Ariele!) because I was unsure of how it would affect me. Would it put me in a funky reading slump? The short answer is no, it didn't, and I'm 100% glad I took a chance on reading All Your Perfects, because I have never consumed a novel that felt so intimately crafted toward myself as a reader before. During the Halloween scene, I liked how Ava dressed up as the mother and Quinn thought she was being a prude and wondered what she was supposed to be. Then Reid tells her your mother. Honestly, such a good inside joke.

That is a very miserable truth. “Same,” I say, disappointed. “Although, I’m relieved I’m meeting you now rather than next month, after the wedding. At least I won’t be wasting marriage vows on him now.”

The elevator dings and my attention is swept away from my phone and to the doors. When they open, I feel a knot form in my throat. My hand clenches in a fist around my phone when I see the containers of food. The delivery guy begins to walk toward us and my heart takes a beating with every step. Way to pour salt on my wounds, Ethan. We immediately understand that this is a woman who wants to have a child desperately but can’t and it’s slowly tearing her on the inside that she can’t and is barely holding on. Quinn’s POV benefited a lot from Hoover’s sparse but emotional prose which captured Quinn’s pain so well.