My Flawless Life

My Flawless Life
by Yvonne Woon
 
Book: Stand Alone
Publisher: Katherine Tegan Books
Pub Date: February 14, 2023
Genre: Young Adult, Mystery, Thriller
Format: eARC
Source: NetGalley
Book Links: Goodreads  Amazon
 
Yvonne Woon, author of If You, Then Me , has crafted a slow-burn thriller about fixing—our friends, ourselves, and our complicated pasts. For fans of Allegedly and We Were Liars , My Flawless Life features a compelling narrator who grapples with the secrets of her private school classmates as well as her own life. At the most elite private school in Washington, DC., whenever anyone has a problem that they need to go away, they hire Hana Yang Lerner. Hana is a fixer. She knows who to call, what to say, and how to make sure secrets stay where they belong—buried. She can fix anything. Except her own life, which was destroyed when her father, senator Skip Lerner, was arrested for an accident that left one woman nearly dead. Now Hana’s reputation is ruined and her friends are gone. So when she gets a job from an anonymous client called “Three” to follow her former best friend, Luce Herrera, Hana realizes this might be her way of getting back her old life. But the dangerous thing about digging is that you never know what you’ll unearth. As Hana uncovers a dark truth about her supposedly flawless classmates, she’s forced to face a secret of her own.
 

My Review: This book starts as if it's setting the scene for a mystery. Hana is walking around St. Francis dissecting the paintings, deciphering what each adult in the room is. An artist, Non-Profit head, you name it, but Hana is spot on. 

While figuring out who does what, Hana is tasked with a job. While she doesn't accept from those she doesn’t know, a $5,000 payment sure changes that plan. 

I do have to say that the first few chapters are hard to get through. It is detail heavy, which isn't too bad. But it reads at such a slow pace for me. The most annoying part was all the hints at what happened with her dad and it still hadnt been explained. But eventually got there. 

I struggled to enjoy this book; it took me about 80% to finally be grabbed in. Which is tough because of just how much I loved her Dead Beautiful books. I really wanted this book to be so much more, but it just fell short for me.

I hope her next series will get me back to the same feeling as her Dead Beautiful books.
 
  

My Rating:

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