It didn’t dilly dally and got right into the juicy stuff. The best thing about the book was that it was interesting and suspenseful from the very start. Once I sat down and started reading, it was hard for me to tear myself away. I really enjoyed reading this book and finished it in mere hours. But as Janie’s behavior threatens to tear Christopher and Hannah apart, the truth behind Janie’s past may be enough to push them all over the edge.” Goodreads What I Loved

Hannah knows that Janie is manipulating Christopher and isolating him from her, despite Hannah’s attempts to bring them all together. Unable to bond with Janie, Hannah is drowning under the pressure, and Christopher refuses to see Janie’s true nature. Janie is fiercely devoted to Christopher, but she acts out in increasingly disturbing ways, directing all her rage at Hannah. When Janie, an abandoned six-year-old, turns up at their hospital, Christopher forms an instant connection with her, and he convinces Hannah they should take her home as their own.īut Janie is no ordinary child, and her damaged psyche proves to be more than her new parents were expecting. “ A page-turning debut of suspense about a young couple desperate to have a child of their own-and the unsettling consequences of getting what they always wanted.Ĭhristopher and Hannah are a happily married surgeon and nurse with picture-perfect lives. Maybe we’ll start seeing new books compared to The Perfect Child for a change? Anyway… The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry Synopsis If you’ve already beat me to it, you will also notice that other people actually liked this book! It is rated 4.09 which is a better rating than Gone Girl at the time of this review. Let me start with a summary from Goodreads.

The Perfect Child is a great book, offering a unique story that cannot be compared to anything else. However, the only thing in common is the parent-child dynamic. This may sound familiar to a book recently reviewed, Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage. The child comes in between the couple because the father fails to see her shortcomings including her treatment of the mother. The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry: Janie is a young child who loves and manipulates her father but fails to bond with her mother.