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Mrs.
Perfect
By Jane Porter
Release date: May 2008
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5 ways
to know you’re Mrs. Perfect. 1) You
volunteer for everything because no one else volunteers. 2) You hate relinquishing control because you
can do the job better than anyone else.
3) You wouldn’t dream of showing up late for Back-to-School-Night. 4) You know when your kids’ reports are due,
even if they don’t. 5) Your Christmas
cards are already addressed and stamped by December 1. So reads the back cover of Mrs. Perfect by
Jan Porter. This is the story of Taylor
Young. She is beautiful, wealthy and
dressed in designer’s clothes. She has a
gorgeous wealthy husband and three lovely daughters. Her friends are equally wealthy and look up
to her to volunteer the biggest fundraiser at school every year. The year starts off with a surprise when
When I
opened the first pages and realized the first chapter was about how the
characters looked, what they wore, and how wealthy and perfect they are, I
thought, “There is no way this book is for me”.
What I soon discovered was that the author designed Taylor to have a lot
more layers to her character than first expected, and as the story went on, the
reader gets to peel off each one slowly, until we begin to fully discover a
rich, complex woman. I was pleasantly
surprised a few times. The author does
like to tidy things up a bit in the end, but there’s nothing wrong with that
when the storyline keeps you engaged and you have come to care about the main
character. The women in the book have a
book club that
Book Room Grade
B-
Review Posted: May 14, 2008
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