REVIEW: Almost Perfect by Susan Mallery

Almost Perfect by Susan Mallery

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Okay, to start off I am going to review Almost Perfect as a stand alone book. I was originally thinking about it terms of the whole series, but really that isn’t fair to the book (or any book).

The hero of the story is kind of an idiot, and Susan Mallery does him no favors. Every time he makes a mistake or gets angry it is magnified. Meanwhile, unless it is disastrous, all his quiet good moments are “off screen.” Ethan finds out about Tyler, but the heroine (I suppose rightly) demands that he forgive her. She tried to tell him – twice! I understand that the situations were very complicated – Ethan turned his back on Liz; Liz found him “in bed” with Pia and later told his wife about Tyler, and Rayanne kept it all a secret; Ethan has a very difficult time blaming the dead. And he would also not freely throw his wife under the bus. Liz was a decent heroine. She saved her nieces from foster care. She had a lucrative career and survived a single mom. She is more or less someone to admire.

And I really enjoyed Liz’s relationship with Montana (my favorite of the triplets – though knowing they are triplets I imagine them all exactly the same and frequently confuse them).

That all being said – do any of your feel we actually read a romance? I felt that Almost Perfect was more about the reuniting of Ethan and Tyler, and how Liz must cope with that. I know that I did not read about Ethan and Liz falling in love (though, they may have still been in love from high school).

My absolute favorite part of this book was when Ethan and Liz first reunited and his mentioned how the characters she kills off in her novels have more than a passing resemblance to him – and he thinks it’s funny. What a charming moment!

After a number of disastrous Susan Mallery books, this one (actually this series) was a welcome surprise. I loved it.



Overall: 4 stars.



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