A theme that runs through many of my stories and books is conformity and people not standing up for what they believe, instead choosing the mass opinion. I also love the difference in people and find it fascinating how we label a person as odd if they are not following the "rules" of life, perhaps they are just being themselves? Violet discovers that Bungalow, one of the Watchers that she can now see, goes into people's houses at night after the curfew, collecting imaginations from the rose coloured glasses and transferring them to jars in the Archers Optical Emporium. Violet from following Bungalow, sees that the jars glow. One jar has her name written on it and says 'processing'. Imagine living in a perfect town where everything is neat and tidy, the kids are polite and well behaved and the tea tastes like the best thing you can imagine. Sounds great, right? Well, not if the tea is actually hypnotising you and the glasses you are made to wear twist reality to make everything seem perfect and hide the truth… This book was a mixture of horror and mystery which is one of the reasons I like this book.Since this book was fiction something that interested me was that they were going to replace the perfect glasses for perfect eyes. The thing that interested me most was that George and Edward Archer made coffee which made people blind I thought of this surprising because they seemed nice but I thought they were a little to nice. Something else that surprised me was the fact that some people that weren’t perfect according to George and Edward Archer we’re sent to No-Man’s-Land where they would become invisible to the people living in perfect also know as perfectionists. Then Violet met Boy, a little lad from a place called, No-Man’s Land, whom she could only hear when she didn’t have her glasses on, and only see with a pair of gold rimmed glasses that she found. Boy agreed with Violet that something was not right in Perfect. The two set off on an adventure to locate Violet’s dad and find out just what it was that Perfect was hiding.

J’ai aimé les personnages, l’univers, l’intrigue, et j’y ai vraiment trouvé beaucoup de bonnes choses. C’est une petite lecture simple et facile parfaite pour la période de fêtes.What can I say. Absolute PERFECTION! Love this book, it will keep you guessing until the very end and then throw a plot twist at you. Love this combination of mystery and horror and it is the perfect book to read if you like any of the things listed above. I would recommend this book to anyone in the age range of 9+ because it could get a bit scary for younger readers, but an absolutely phenomenal book, would read again! Violet was a wonderful character, though at times a bit too impulsive, and also a bit selfish (though I do get why she acted like that, I would probably have done the same if I was her age + it was my dad). But most of the time I just liked her a whole lot. She had a giant imagination, and she was also the one with the biggest plans. She never gave up, even when everything seemed hopeless. I cried along with her when her mom totally changed. Oops, I did it again. I bought a book because of the cover. And I ended up not liking it. Disappointed even. I liked the idea of it. The characters were dull. I was utterly bored throughout the whole lenght of this book. The plot seemed too slow at some points, and too rushed in others. This book was so exitingand full of mystery. So much happens in just the first few chapters. It can also be creepy but I loved this book and would 100% recommend it to anyone over 7. Once they move to Perfect, Violet finds things to be very strange indeed. For one, the town is ridiculously perfect- and the people, even more so. The tea is delicious, and the rose-tinted glasses everyone has to wear seems to protect them from blindness- what even, right? Violet hates all this (except for the tea, which, admittedly, is absolutely delicious), and once her parents start turning into people she barely recognized, with her mom taking up baking and what not, and her father suddenly disappears on a mysterious business trip, Violet realizes that something is definitely not right about Perfect.

The cover art by Karl James Mountford captures the quirkiness of Helena’s world and I was often drawn to the detailed map to remind myself where I was in Perfect.

But when her optician father has been offered an almost perfect job in this new location and despite her unwillingness, Violet must do as she is told, so she moves to Perfect.