I had the honor of reading AYP last month, and I was completely blown away by it. This story is so important, so real, and ended up changing the way I think as a mother. To have a book impact me so deeply speaks volumes.
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All Your Perfects addresses the extremely real and sensitive topic of infertility. Though I can’t say I’ve been in this situation myself, I have known others who have struggled through this. This story addressed this struggle with such grace and realism, I’m honestly at a loss for words.
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I can’t recommend this story enough. It’s emotional, hopeful, heartbreaking and inspirational. It will leave you thinking long after you finish reading it. @colleenhoover is a romance queen, and I can’t say it enough: READ THIS BOOK!!

If you only shine light on your flaws, all your perfects will dim.”

How does she do it? How? Every time I’m going through something traumatic and I feel like I’m all alone, a Colleen Hoover book comes out when I need it most. Confess, It Ends With Us, and Without Merit all dealt with subject matters that I was personally going through at the time of their publications. So again I ask the question. How? All Your Perfects are the words I didn’t know I needed to hear.

“I probably didn’t notice because sadness is like a spiderweb. You don’t see it until you’re caught up in it, and then you have to claw at yourself to try to break free.”

If you’re wondering if she did it again...fuck yeah she did! Very beautifully, I might add. This is a story about the complexities of marriage and all it comes with it. The highs, the lows, and eventually the indifference that sometimes sneaks up on you when you least expect it. Graham and Quinn met on crappy circumstances that ended up being a blessing in disguise for them both. Now years later, the beautiful spark that ignited from the moment they met, is on the verge of going out for good. Is there a way to save what has been lost?

“My husband’s heart is my saving grace, but his physical touch has become my enemy.”

I realize that a lot of you like to go into Hoover books blind— I don’t blame you, because I do too. So for those that don’t, you need not worry about me spoiling the main plot line for you. I love CoHo books because she writes in a simplistic yet very beautiful way on subjects that are realistic. Women (and men) are able to connect in some way or form in every book she writes. I guarantee you that many will see part of themselves in the main characters.

Graham and Quinn are probably one of the best couples she’s written to date. I feel like I say that every time her books come out though. The new couple finds some way to up the last ones that were written. The issues this particular couple faces is heartbreaking. I wanted them to work—I rooted, cheered, and cried right along with them. I loved how they loved each other. When they were going through the lowest times of their lives, the love was still present—even if they were unable to show it.

“I miss you, Quinn. So much. You’re right here, but you aren’t. I don’t know where you went or when you left, but I have no idea how to bring you back. I am so alone. We live together. We eat together. We sleep together. But I have never felt more alone in my entire life.”

The story is told in Then and Now intervals. We are taken back in time to when they first met and how it wasn’t exactly a “meet-cute” but started something that ended up turning into everything. I enjoyed the present day storyline a lot more—mainly because I wanted to know how these two imperfect characters would find a way back to each other. If they even could.

Overall, All Your Perfects is an intense read that will no doubt tug at your heartstrings. Luckily, it has balance to the intensity in the Then chapters. Which are full of swoon-worthy goodness. Hoover fans, prepare yourselves for another five star read.

“As if he knows this, I feel his arms slide around me. His loving, caring, selfless arms pull me to him, and even though we’re on opposite sides of this war, he refuses to pick up his weapons. My face is now pressed against his chest and I am so broken. So broken.”

I put reading this one off. Hoover's books have been very iffy for me lately and I wanted to give it a fair shot. I really really should have listened to the hype for once and read this one earlier. It was heart-breaking, uplifting, beautiful and sad all in one go. Emotions all over the place and I wasn't sure if it would be okay in the end. Quinn and Graham's story is raw, realistic and relatable for so many people. This is Colleen Hoover at her very very best.

This book broke my heart. But what else is new? Colleen Hoover manages to do that almost every time and I wouldn’t expect anything less. It took me a little while to actually get to this book because I knew once I started it, I wouldn’t be able to stop it. So let me explain why it took me longer than most CoHo’s books to read.

I was reading it on my phone and in small bits, while on my commute. That alone made it more difficult to read because I hate reading on my phone and usually have a physical book with me for my commute. But after reading a few pages here and there every couple days, I finally sat down and read a good chunk. And then came the part where I couldn’t put it down.

This is another very beautiful love story, with a very sad turn of events. I cried like a baby, but loved every second of it. I can’t wait to read this later in life. This book made me feel sad but also gave me hope. I don’t know how she does it, but Colleen has given us another unforgettable story and a new favorite book of mine.

Just based on the author alone, you’ll probably already know that this book is going to be categorized as: 1) an emotional roller coaster; 2) a tear-jerker; 3) heartbreaking; 4) real and raw; 5) honest and breathtaking; 6) beautiful; 7) unforgettable; 8) a must-read. Need I say more?

I will say right off that this wasn't my favorite Colleen Hoover book. I just couldn't get into this one. The writing style was fine, I just couldn't connect with the characters.

Let me start of by saying that this an emotional story that had me asking many questions and at times had me questioning my own relationship. Quinn & Graham met in the most unusual way and ironic enough, that is what brought them together. Though I wasn't sure how it was really going to work out for them yet I was rooting that it would!!

Their story was so realistic, especially when someone is dealing with what they are dealing with because I've gone through something similar. It really hit home and at times I had to put the book down and collect myself before I could continue. So be prepared to laugh, cry, want to slap someone and sigh with happiness because this book brought out so many emotions I didn't know what to do with myself. Kara~4.5 Stars

One of my favorite things Graham usually asks Quinn is "What did I miss while you were sleeping?"

Colleen Hoover's books need to come with boxes and boxes of tissues. It's been awhile since I read a Colleen Hoover story. Not because I didn't want to, well okay, a little. In order to read a beautiful book by Ms. Hoover, you need to be in a good head space and All Your Perfects is no exception. This story is Quinn and Graham's story, past and present. Good and the bad. This book will pull at your heartstrings. So prepare yourself for an emotional journey. I really need to catch up on more of Ms. Hoover's back list of books.

*An ARC was provided via Net Galley

I loved the characters, even though there were times when I was screaming at them! Quinn's psyche was a bit much to handle at times; I wanted to both shake and hug her at the same time! All Your Perfects takes a realistic look at infertility and how it can tear a marriage apart, I've personally been there and done that. However, the dark parts are nicely wrapped inside the shiny romance of when the characters first meet, which helped to harshen the blow when it came to reading the most painfully awful moments of Quinn and Graham’s deteriorating marriage. This is a heartbreaking and completely endearing story that gave the infertility I struggled with a bit of an outlet.

5+++++++ Stars!

Once again, Colleen Hoover delivers a book that is heartfelt and leaves me with my heart soaring.

We are taken from the future to the past and the relationship built by Quinn and Graham over many years. I have no words to describe my feelings during this book....hopeful? Sad? Anxious? Happy at times? But also devastated at times? There are too many emotions to say it all in just simple words.

What Quinn and Graham went through is something I know many couples struggle with and some do not survive the heartache.

Could Graham be any more perfect? Even with his "one mistake" which had me fuming but for some reason I completely understood why it happened. Avoidance and ignorance does not help fix a marriage.

The ending rocked my world.....those letters! Gah! Loved! I didn't know where the Epilogue would go at that point, but damn.....August! Perfect ending!

Colleen Hoover is my all-time favorite writer, so I may be a little bias. This book was fantastic. It amazes me that no matter what genre or topic Colleen writes about, she delivers it so well and with such grace. Grab your tissues, this is a good one.

”If you only shine light on your flaws, all your perfects will dim.”

Sometimes you read a story that knocks you off your axis, so unbelievably amazing that you’ll never be prepared for the force of feels that strikes from this journey you’ll forever feel. All Your Perfects is a book I never expected to knock me off my axis, but one that hit my heart so hard as it struck my soul. Colleen Hoover takes a deep dive into marriage territory with All Your Perfects, a book so broken, so brutally honest, and so beautiful that it nearly brought me to my knees. All Your Perfects broke me in the best way and BLEW ME AWAY!



Emotionally rich and relatable, All Your Perfects connected to me from the start, one that tore at my heart with words that stole my soul, stomping on it with each breath. I was ENRAPTURED with this story! I WAS RENDERED POWERLESS to All Your Perfects’ power—this force of feels that awakened everything inside of me. My heart both raced and ached, beating so hard yet breaking so hard too. I wanted to hug someone. I wanted to punch someone. I wanted to sob for everyone. I cried for everyone. I felt it all.

It’s strange how I can miss a person who is still here.

No marriage is perfect. Through All Your Perfects, Colleen Hoover shines a light on the imperfections, struggles that many couples face, and brings an emotional depth that it is so real that it’s sometimes hard to read. Told through a struggling wife of a heroine, All Your Perfects shows the imperfections of marriage—the ups and downs, and the storms under the umbrella of love—and makes you feel every emotion this couple endures. All Your Perfects is so achingly honest and personal that it feels like an invasion upon reading. Deep. Dynamic. Devastatingly beautiful.I could not help but feel every emotion that this hero and heroine did. Their marriage became mine too.

”I hate you right now.”

Ironically, my husband of almost 24 years, my teenage love, and I had a fight shortly before I picked up All Your Perfects to read. The fight wasn’t major but it still was meaningful. Reading this story, though the particulars are different, emphasized both a struggle and a triumph I already knew: Marriage is your home that’s sometimes hit with hurricanes. You have to do your best to weather those storms, putting everything you have into saving your home. That’s what All Your Perfects is about: weathering those storms while holding onto and fighting for your home—all while remembering the foundation of your home and the glue that holds you together. Without the rain, there wouldn’t be rainbows. The imperfects make the perfects more meaningful ... more real ... more everything.

I’m not sure anyone had ever made me feel as beautiful as he makes he feel when he looks at me.

No one writes complex relationships in the most raw and real of ways—messy love at its best—like Colleen Hoover. No one. A deep dive into marriage territory that tackles tough issues, All Your Perfects is about as real as you can get. It’s so believable, so broken, and so breathtaking that I couldn’t put it down. It may just be my favorite book of this author’s to date. Colleen Hoover has truly outdone herself in All Your Perfects, a tear-jerking journey of marriage that shines an honest light on the perfects and the imperfects, and stamps a forever mark on the heart and soul. All Your Perfects is EXTRAORDINARY, an EMOTIONAL JOURNEY that has left a lifelong mark on my heart and soul.

”I love you. I always have. No matter how much you wish I didn’t.”

This soul stunner of a story turned me into a bawling baby where I sobbed so hard that I shook like an earthquake. I seriously cried straight up UGLY TEARS, tears that touched my kindle. All Your Perfects is ALL THE THINGS! It wowed the woman in me. It wrecked the wife in me. It’s gripping. It’s gut-wrenching. It’s messy. It’s moving. It’s meaningful. It’s broken. It’s beautiful. It’s so raw that it feels real. All Your Perfects is a Category 5 hurricane that hit my heart so hard that I felt every word of this emotional journey, one that wrecked me in the most wonderful of ways. I felt everything in a story that’s everything. All Your Perfects is EVERYTHING!!!

”I promise I will love you more during the storms than I love you doing the perfect days.”

A TOP 2018 & LIFETIME READ!

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 perfectly imperfect stars

Hoover writes the ultimate love story, one that is not filled with only rosy tones and happily-ever-afters, but rather, the construction and deconstruction of a relationship on the brink of failure.
Quinn and Graham meet at the doorstep of Quinn's cheating fiancee while he is having sex with Graham's equally unfaithful girlfriend. From that they on, they encounter each other again, go out, fall in love and ultimately marry. But as the years go by, Quinn becomes angry for not being able to have a child, and resentful for Graham's inability to talk about about it. Graham also grapples with Quinn's interest in sex only when she's ovulating and her increasing silence and coldness towards him.
Hoover's writing is in equal parts emotional and raw, telling us what lies at the end of the fairy tale and if there's a way to spark up the magic once it's seemingly gone.

Colleen Hoover never fails to astound me. The skill in which she makes a fictional story, all the highs and lows of a relationship, seem so real, blows me away. All Your Perfects was real, raw, and an all-consuming read for me. Colleen takes what should be an idyllic marriage and slowly picks it all apart in front of the reader, making you feel the pain and devastation, the sheer want and the soul-deep love until you’re left with little more than an ache in your chest and a tear in your eye.

I was not expecting this book to affect me in the way that it did. I was, of course, anticipating an emotional read, but I was not prepared to be so fucking SAD for this couple. This was such a true-to-life story. Watching this couple struggle, taking this journey with them, feeling how deeply in love they are, yet so broken at the same time, was hard. Anyone in a committed relationship could easily put themselves into Graham & Quinn’s shoes, realizing how their problems could so easily be their own.

This story reached a part of me that few ever do. It opened my eyes to how delicate love is, how we need to nurture our relationships and remain open and receiving to our partners, even when we don’t like what might result from that.

As with any Colleen Hoover book, I was emotionally wrung out after reading All Your Perfects, my heart full while at the same time aching. There are so many facets to this story to reveal and understand, and I look forward to re-reading this story very soon (much more slowly, this time!) just so I can more acutely feel everything that Colleen was trying to convey in this story.

In my eyes, All Your Perfects was much like a successful marriage…the painful parts hurt like a bitch, but the end result is so, so worth it.

There are some stories that move you so deeply and so unexpectedly, that you end up shedding buckets of tears in the end, feeling too much all at once. As I read the last few pages of this beautiful book, I could barely see the words through all my tears, because nothing prepared me for the sheer emotion running through this stunning, wrenching, gem of a novel. This is the story of an anonymous epidemic affecting so many families, and one couple’s struggle to save their crumbling marriage from divorce as life continues to deny them the one thing they long for the most. I don’t know how Colleen Hoover manages to create such authentic, heartfelt stories time and time again, leaving us utterly breathless and incoherent in their aftermath, but I do know that this book is one of my absolute favourites. Ever.

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Colleen Hoover takes on a troubled marriage here in a heartwrenching but insightful story. Quinn and Graham first meet when she unexpectedly shows up at her fiance Ethan's apartment door to surprise him, and finds a fuming Graham waiting outside Ethan's door. Graham announces to Quinn that his girlfriend is in Ethan's apartment, having sex with him at this very moment.

After the initial shock wears off, Quinn and Graham wait for Ethan and Sasha to come out the door, and steal and eat the Chinese takeout food that Ethan's had delivered to his apartment. As a running theme, we have this quirky but profound advice from Quinn's fortune cookie: "If you only shine light on your flaws, all your perfects will dim."

All Your Perfects was a difficult but engrossing novel. It alternates between two timelines: Quinn and Graham's meeting and initial romance (sexytimes alert!) and seven years later, when their marriage and relationship is on the rocks after years of struggling with Quinn's inability to get pregnant. She's so deeply distressed by her infertility that she's torpedoing her marriage, and Graham is at his wit's end. Both make mistakes - some huge, serious ones.

It was helpful to have the uplifting early timeline to balance out and leaven the profoundly sad and angsty later chapters. I was unhappy with the characters for many of their choices (omissions as well as actions), but people do behave in self-destructive ways when they're deeply unhappy.

It's a heavier story, more drama than fun. It's not really subtle in its message, but if you don't mind a bit more heavy-handed approach in literature, it offers a great lesson in hanging on to what's important in life and not letting the problems, however large, ruin what's good in your life. There are some good secondary characters, especially Quinn's sister Ava, and the earlier timeline is a very heartwarming romance. Really in the end it's all heartwarming (I don't consider this a spoiler because, CoHo romance novel), but this romance ship has a lot of stormy seas to sail through.

All Your Perfects is the story of a troubled marriage and the one promise that might be able to save it. Quinn and Graham meet under horrid circumstances. They find themselves in the hallway outside her fiancee's apartment in which her fiancee is in the act of cheating with Graham's girlfriend. As they wait for the cheaters to emerge, they commiserate over the Chinese food her fiancee ordered. It's the same order he normally places for Quinn. The fortune contained in the cookie? "If you only shine light on your flaws, all your perfects will dim."

Months later, Quinn finally gives in to her feelings and embarks upon a relationship with Graham. It is clear that they are meant to be together, But their struggle with infertility threatens the beautiful union they have formed.

Author Colleen Hoover approaches the subject with compassion and unflinching insight. As Quinn and Graham's struggle continues, they become increasingly isolated and estranged from each other. Although the story is told from Quinn's perspective, Hoover also credibly conveys the disappointment and frustration Graham experiences. The result is a heartbreaking story of two people who are so entrenched in their own sorrow that they are unable to reach to the one person in the world who can best understand their feelings -- and lend unconditional support and comfort. It is not until their situation reaches a breaking point that they turn to the promise they made each other at the beginning of their marriage. Because within that promise lies the answer to the question they can no longer evade: Can their marriage survive? In order to remain together, they will have to accept disappointment, forgive each other, and accept that their future will be very different from the way they originally envisioned it.

Hoover's ability to convey her deeply flawed characters' emotional struggles and evoke empathy for them is simply mesmerizing in its depth and straight-forward honesty. Sans plot contrivances, Hoover pulls readers into the painful journey of Quinn and Graham, realistically depicting her characters' individual descents into despair and inspiring readers to ponder their own reactions when life delivers disappointment. Hoover delivers a believable resolution to her tale that readers will find deeply satisfying. All Your Perfects is a nearly perfect story.

This book needs a disclaimer. Like a big one! Because this is a very painful book to read and I mean that as the biggest compliment to the writing. It’s painful because you can feel how hard it is for Graham and Quinn. This book shows just how hard it is to make a marriage work regardless of how perfect your personalities fit.

This story really shows how circumstances can change the course for this couple. So besides the painful struggle for the couple to make it in their marriage, they have to deal with infertility issues. The story made me see how painful and how much it breaks down someone’s confidence not only in themselves but in the relationship.

The story does go back and forth between the present and the past. So Hoover shows us how the couple gets together and let me tell you it’s not in the most conventional way. These parts make up a great love story but when it’s coupled with the ‘Now’ parts of the story it only enhances just how hard it is for them. You know that the couple loves each other but this story really proves that love sometimes is just not enough.

I love Colleen Hoover’s books because she is always able to grab you and have you so enthralled with the story that you literally feel every emotion that the characters are feeling. This story is no different. Every pain, every tear, every struggle. You feel it. Down to your core so much that it may even cause you to go into a depression. Yet another reason to have a disclaimer.

I've read a few of Colleen Hoover's books back in college but I have yet to pick up one of her newer ones. I've enjoyed them but I have to be honest, many of her books are what I would consider emotional porn. They're made to bring you intense emotions and I swear they're made to make you cry.

Going into this book I only knew the bare minimum about this book. I saw a few quotes here and there and I knew that it was about a failing marriage. What I did know is that I wanted to finally pick up another Colleen Hoover book. When I saw this book on Netgalley as a "wish" I knew I needed to click that button. I was lucky enough to be approved for this book.

I have to admit, I struggled with this book. I struggled with some of the actions of characters and honestly the characters themselves. I never truly felt connect with the characters. Now, Graham & Quinn were wonderful characters that were flawed and realistic, but I couldn't connect with them. Their story was tragic and beautiful at times and I can see why so many people have grabbed onto their story. Unfortunately, I just couldn't connect how I normally do.

As expected with any Colleen Hoover novel, it is well written. You are going to feel emotions and you're going to feel them very deeply. Colleen Hoover does emotions well, I may not have felt connected to the characters but I did feel emotions and even tear up a bit at moments.

All in all, it was a good book & well written.

All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover
Standalone. Women's Fiction/Romance
All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover was probably my most anticipated read of 2018. Colleen has been one of my top favorite authors since she first published Slammed (She was at the very first Wicked Book Weekend in February 2013). So I knew to expect amazing writing and a TON of emotion. And I got it, that’s for sure. All Your Perfects is not an easy read by any stretch of the imagination. While the ending made it worth it, I am super glad I didn’t read it on vacation like I planned, because it put me in a bit of a depression for a couple of days.

I am married for close to 28 years. We have had some really rough patches in our marriage, so maybe some of it just hit too close to home for me. But All Your Perfects was so well-written, despite my melancholy mood, I couldn’t stop reading it. Colleen was genius in the way she told the story alternating past and present. Just when the present gets to be too much, we jump to the past, where Quinn and Graham fall in love.

"I haven’t felt alive inside in years. I’ve slowly been rotting away, and that rot is now eating at my marriage to the point that I can no longer hide it."

Quinn is going through hell. And though she still loves her husband, she is feeling so much guilt and hopelessness, she has just been retreating into herself and her depression.

"I call it the divorce dance. Partner one goes in for the kiss, partner two isn’t receptive, partner one pretends he didn’t notice. We’ve been dancing this same dance for a while now."

Oh, I so get that dance. We’ve done that dance at several points in our marriage. It’s so much easier to pretend than confront the real issues. I think reading this book brought back those feelings for me and perhaps they were just a little too much because I am starting to sob as I pull the quotes to write this review.

When they first connected, sigh, Graham….he was so awesome. He was so confident that Quinn was the one. He wanted to know everything about her, and I loved this:
"What did I miss while you were sleeping?"

I wish we had a little more of the good times. That’s when Colleen’s fun and quirky sense of humor comes out, but as soon as I started smiling and swooning, we would jump back to depression. Quinn and Graham were so great together at first!

"I promise that I will love you more during the storms than I will love you during the perfect days. I promise to love you more when you’re hurting than when you’re happy. I promise to love you more when we’re poor than when we’re swimming in riches. I promise to love you more when you’re crying than when you’re laughing. I promise to love you more when you’re sick than when you’re healthy. I promise to love you more when you hate me than when you love me."

And the thing is, the love didn’t go away, circumstance and depression pushed it to the back burner.

“I miss you, Quinn. So much. You’re right here, but you aren’t. I don’t know where you went or when you left, but I have no idea how to bring you back. I am so alone. We live together. We eat together. We sleep together. But I have never felt more alone in my entire life.”

I am so torn on rating and reviewing this book. The story is important and unique, the writing is brilliant. The couple is so relatable and so REAL that perhaps that is the problem. Maybe just a little too real. I loved the “then” chapters of the couple meeting and falling in love, but I couldn’t totally get lost in and enjoy them fully because I already knew what a mess they become. So while going back to the good times was brilliant in breaking up the rough times, at the same time, the rough times took away from the good ones.
People are led to believe that a marriage ends only when the love has been lost. When anger replaces happiness. When contempt replaces bliss. But Graham and I aren’t angry at each other. We’re just not the same people we used to be.

Likes:
•So well written, despite my emotions, I couldn’t put it down.
•Real and flawed characters.
•Even though I knew the story arc right from the beginning, I still needed to see how it played out.
•I think any couple will find something relatable in this story.
•Some amazing quotes.
•Graham’s politics (I had to mention it because they are EXACTLY mine).
•One of the best pieces of marriage advice I’ve ever read given by a couple married 60 years:
“Our marriage hasn’t been perfect. No marriage is perfect. There were times when she gave up on us. There were even more times when I gave up on us. The secret to our longevity is that we never gave up at the same time.”

Dislikes:
•It was a very difficult read and put me in a bit of a depression.
•Counseling was poo-pooed as “boring”. If anyone needs counseling, it is this couple. There could have been a bunch of other reasons counseling didn’t work for them, but boring kind of felt irresponsible to the storyline.
•I wish there was more of the good times to balance out the bad.
•I started getting annoyed that she was just stuck and didn’t look for ways to help herself, but I only went through something similar (but perhaps worse) for a short time, and I haven’t walked in her shoes.

The Down & Dirty:
How can you review the words of a genius? Who am I to give anything less than 5 stars to CoHo? I’ve read all her books and they have all been 5 stars. All Your Perfects was 5 stars for the last third, but I really struggled with it being a little too hopeless and depressing in the first half. Please keep in mind, this is coming from a girl who loves romcoms and avoids most ugly cry books that are not written by Colleen Hoover. This story is fairly straightforward, there were no real twists or surprises, so it’s all about the emotion and how it plays out. While all of Colleen’s books are filled with emotion, and I have ugly-cried during them all, All Your Perfects affected me differently and just kind of put me in a funk that lingered when I wasn’t reading. Do I still recommend it? Well, YES. It’s Colleen Hoover. You will FEEL. She will BREAK YOU. But she will put you back together, and it’s worth the suffering.

Rating: 4-4.5 Stars, 4 Heat