Book Review: No Perfect Places by Steven Salvatore

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Beautiful and thought-provoking, I was not prepared for this hard-hitting story. No Perfect Places by Steven Salvatore is a poetic telling of grief, family, love, and loss. This is NOT a romance novel: it is a hard read, but a good one.

Meet Alex. She does everything to escape her grief (and feelings in general) since her father was imprisoned, and then passed away, becoming a ghost. Meet Olly. He is trying to fight the rage welling up inside of him, as he lives with immense guilt for hiding his father’s secret. Meet Tyler. He never met his real dad but he is getting to know his siblings, twins named Alex and Olly. Will one of these siblings self-destruct before they’re able to see the light in the darkness?

As a reader, you need to open your heart while reading this story.

The three siblings beg for you to care for them and see them to the end of their journey. As someone who lost their father last year, the premise of how when someone is alive, there are infinite opportunities to fix what broke, but once they’re gone, so is their potential to make things right.

Thank you NetGalley and Bloomsbury Children’s Books for a temporary e-ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Publication Date: 30 May 2023 Publisher: Bloomsbury Children’s Books ISBN: 9781547611072 Format: EPUB Pages: 384 Genre: Teens & YA

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