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Book Review By Nandini Seshadri
Perfect by Judith McNaught

Zachary Benedict's life, love and Academy Award winning acting/directing carrer is shattered when a real gun is substituted for a fake on the set, and he ends up killing his adulterous wife. He escapes from a Texas prison, abducts Julie Mathison and ends up falling in love with her as he holds her captive in a mountaintop masion in Colorado.

Julie, who was adopted by the Mathisons at a young age, has spent her entire life trying to make herself perfect in the eyes of her loving family. Her feelings for Zack scare her, but she knows that she has fallen in love forever. The trouble intensifies when Zack, unwilling to hold Julie captive, lets her go back home. Julie is determined to uncover the truth about the murder Zack is accused of and in the course of her haphazard investigations, she meets his grandmother, who convinces her that Zack has always been violent - perhaps mentally ill.

Julie betrays Zack's whereabouts to the authorities after they promise to treat his 'mental illness', but suddenly, the true murderer is discovered and Zack's name is cleared. Now, Zack believes Julie to be a betrayer, and wants nothing to do with her. Can Julie go back to her 'perfect' small-town life as if Zack had never come into her life?


Plot & Themes
Time/era of story
Forbidden/mismatched love? Yes
How mismatched?
Captor, in love with Yes

Main Male Character
Profession/status:
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Sex makes him

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Profession/status:
Effect of sexing
Unusual characteristics:

Setting
United States Yes
Mountains/Cliffs Yes
Small town? Yes
Small town people: - nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Misc setting - Fancy Mansion

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
What % of story is romance related? - 60%
How explicit is the sex? - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - impregnation/reproduction - actual description of sex - Boob talk - Vagia talk - Weiner talk
Focus of story - equally on him and her
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much sexing? - 3-4 sex acts
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