WOW – Pushing Perfect

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature hosted by Breaking the Spine. This feature highlights an upcoming release that I am excited about.

Pushing Perfect by Michelle Falkoff

Release Date: October 25, 2016

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary

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Goodreads Book Description

A girl’s quest for perfection results in dangerous consequences in this layered, suspenseful YA novel by the author of Playlist for the Dead.

How far would you go to be perfect?

Kara has the perfect life. She gets perfect grades. She never messes up. Until now. Because perfection is an illusion, and Kara has been struggling to maintain it for as long as she can remember. With so much pressure to succeed, it’s hard not to do whatever it takes.

But when Kara takes a new underground drug to help her ace the SATs, she doesn’t expect to get a text from a blocked sender, telling her to follow a set of mysterious instructions—or risk her dark secret getting out. Soon she finds herself part of a group of teens with secrets of their own, who are all under the thumb of the same anonymous texter. And if they don’t find a way to stop the blackmailer, their perfect futures will go up in flames.

This dark, emotionally resonant contemporary YA novel is perfect for fans of We Were Liars and The Secret History.

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Why I’m Excited

Hello A – is that you again, did you find another victim in Kara? This book sounds a hell of a lot like Pretty Little Liars, which I’m a huge fan of. I also loved We Were Liars, so yes, this book sounds right up my alley.