Almost Perfect

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Summary: An indepth look at a woman questioning love with Adonis
Review: Highly recommended for anyone who's ever been mixed up with someone with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Unfortunately highly realistic and distressing.

I was moved to write a review by the Kirkus Review -- all the dramatic faults noted are not Adams's artistic failure but rather her artistic success, for narcissists are like this: weirdly static, while also alternating between extremes of vainglorious grandiosity and nihilistic emptiness and despair. NPD doesn't make good drama because it doesn't go anywhere.

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Summary: Not exciting...but made to savor slowly
Review: I found this book very easy to read. Indeed after picking up the book for the first time I put it down at the 6th chapter. I think that I enjoyed Superior Women more, although this book was also good in its way. It is far more personal with only one main character. And doesnt really draw out on more themes other than male-female bonds and rich-poor bonds. It is a study in to the needs-wants and what makes them up especially in love. I enjoyed this and would recommend this to anyone who likes character portrait books rather than a plot driven novel. I think I will remember this book for a long time.

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Summary: Good writing, not her best work
Review: I read Almost Perfect right after I read Adams' Superior Women. Almost Perfect is not as good, but still display's Adams' talents: character studies, touching upon the protagonists' motives, describing the ambiance and politics to romance and keeping it all readable and engaging. I walked away from this book still not really knowing the characters and I know that Adams does better at getting inside her characters' heads.

Read it anyway. Then read Superior Women.

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Summary: Almost Perfect
Review: Story of a dysfunctional romance, compelling at times, but eventually tiresome.