Review: The Perfect Read.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2014
Amazing, beautiful, shocking, intense. I count myself to be a lucky, lucky Beta reader for Kol Anderson. It is an honor I don't take lightly.The Perfect Place is a complete departure for Kol. It is beautifully written (as are all his books), but you can tell from the cover that I mean a different kind of beautiful. The words are as beautiful as any of Kol's work, but the way he uses them is stunning.There is lightness and life and happiness. Not three things usually found within the pages of a Kol Anderson book. His mind is a dark place and to find such sweetness and love in The Perfect Place was shocking. But shocking in the most pleasant way. I couldn't stop reading. I had to explore this bright, sunny place in this author's usually dark, heavily shadowed creativity.After the initial tragedy, it appears that Kol has written a good, old-fashioned love triangle. It unfolds over time from when Liam was six years old to the present. Jax represents Liam's past, of which we are given glimpses through flashbacks. Ryan is Liam's present. We see him in present phone calls, then also in flashbacks of the more recent past.It appears that Liam and Jax left some feelings unresolved. If you have read any of Kol Anderson's previous work, you know that appearances can be and most often are deceiving.I will not spoil the end of this story. I am dying to share how it ends, but I want everyone who read it to be as shocked as I was and to love it every bit as I did. It is an ending that had me saying, out loud, "What. The. F***!?" That was the message I sent him immediately after I read it. It is a finale that would make M. Night Shyamalan proud.Read this book. It will make you smile and laugh and break your heart. It will make your head spin. I expect nothing less from Kol.