Review: Better Than Perfect!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2014
Better than Perfect is one of Tricia Drammeh's best books yet. Though I have loved them all, this one resonated with me the most. I can relate to the feelings of inadequacies of being human. It's the human existence that pulled me in and made me feel somehow a part of the story. Karlie can be any of us. She is real, flawed and not without quicks. It's the quirks about her that I admire the most. There is an honesty to the writing that makes me wonder how much of this story is from real life. Sometimes her life gets in her way. Whose doesn't. This is an accurate account of a life and I was pulled in. Every word of it made sense to me.How can things go so right but at the same time so wrong? Yes, I can relate to that very much in my own life. It's something about the yin and yang of things but we only have the tools we were given. Some more than others. There is a vulnerability to the writing that I find almost addictive.I was sorry to put this book down as I enjoyed all the highs and lows. This is more than a romantic story but one about life and getting through our everyday obstacles. There is growth that happens to all of us when we are brought into something new.This is a great reminder that life can always change for us. We are never stuck no matter how bad or hopeless it seems. Something good is always waiting around the corner but we have to pay attention long enough to notice.Better than Perfect is so many things and compelled me from start to finish.Quote~"I spend the next thirty minutes biting my ragged fingernails and pacing. I'm so nauseous and anxious. I feel like I am about to lose my mind. Is this what I put my parents through when I stayed out past curfew? If so, I'm desperately sorry. It's the worst feeling in the world. I alternate between peeling out the front window and checking the time on the cell phone. When my phone finally rings, I nearly drop it in my haste to answer."