Perfect Ten is one of those books that was on my radar and was attracting my attention all over social media so I couldn't wait to read it. I was not disappointed! It's such a fantastic story of revenge, one of the best I've read actually.
I was cringing all the way through. Surely that's not a good thing, you're probably thinking, but it was the main character's behaviour I was cringing over. Caroline Atkinson is a fantastic creation - a psychologist so fully aware of the way people's minds work, but also unhinged by the way her ex-husband, Jack, treated her.
Jack gaslighted her. That means he manipulated her psychologically into doubting the sanity of her own mind. He caused her to lose her children and become an alcoholic hoarder who sleeps around. Hmm, what a great guy! When some of Jack's things are delivered to her address by mistake she finds a journal in which he details every woman he's slept with and gives them marks out of ten. Caroline uses the contents of the journal to launch a social media campaign, not just against Jack but against the women he slept with too, who most definitely knew that Jack had a wife.
This book is utterly addictive. I read it a stave a day through The Pigeonhole and I couldn't wait to find out what Caroline would do next. Some of it was read through my fingers as she does some quite shocking things in her mission for revenge. But honestly, when you've had your life ruined by a manipulative control freak, what have you got to lose? I was most definitely #teamcaro throughout and just hoped that she wouldn't jeopardise getting her kids back one day.
This is such a clever book too. I don't know how the author kept up with the plot but she did a brilliant job of pulling it all together and staying on top of Caroline's exploits. It's dark, disturbing, thrilling, exciting and, despite everything that happened, moving - I felt a tear emerge from my eye at the outcome. I absolutely loved every minute I spent reading it.
I was cringing all the way through. Surely that's not a good thing, you're probably thinking, but it was the main character's behaviour I was cringing over. Caroline Atkinson is a fantastic creation - a psychologist so fully aware of the way people's minds work, but also unhinged by the way her ex-husband, Jack, treated her.
Jack gaslighted her. That means he manipulated her psychologically into doubting the sanity of her own mind. He caused her to lose her children and become an alcoholic hoarder who sleeps around. Hmm, what a great guy! When some of Jack's things are delivered to her address by mistake she finds a journal in which he details every woman he's slept with and gives them marks out of ten. Caroline uses the contents of the journal to launch a social media campaign, not just against Jack but against the women he slept with too, who most definitely knew that Jack had a wife.
This book is utterly addictive. I read it a stave a day through The Pigeonhole and I couldn't wait to find out what Caroline would do next. Some of it was read through my fingers as she does some quite shocking things in her mission for revenge. But honestly, when you've had your life ruined by a manipulative control freak, what have you got to lose? I was most definitely #teamcaro throughout and just hoped that she wouldn't jeopardise getting her kids back one day.
This is such a clever book too. I don't know how the author kept up with the plot but she did a brilliant job of pulling it all together and staying on top of Caroline's exploits. It's dark, disturbing, thrilling, exciting and, despite everything that happened, moving - I felt a tear emerge from my eye at the outcome. I absolutely loved every minute I spent reading it.