"All your perfects" by Colleen Hoover: Review:

«  I promise that I will love you more during the storms than I will love you during the perfect days. I promise to love you more when you’re hurting than when you’re happy. I promise to love you more when we’re poor than when we’re swimming in riches. I promise to love you more when you’re crying than when you’re laughing. I promise to love you more when you’re sick than when you’re healthy. I promise to love you more when you hate me than when you love me. »

There are some stories that hit you so deeply and so unexpectedly, that you end up crying so hard after finishing it. This is the first novel of Colleen Hoover that I read, and I can’t tell you how much I love it.

Told in an alternating chapters of « then » and « now », « All your perfects » tells the story of two soulmates, Queen and Graham, that might have met in their lowest point of their lives, but the love story that was born in that time is magnificient, which lead to a marriage. Yet when we met them 8 years later, they were about to tear apart, due to many problems they’re dealing with. Queen is struggling with infertility, and Graham just want the old Queen to come back.

An honest story that shows how infertility can sometimes break a marriage, from all the comments that can a couple hear about having a child, to seeing all their loved ones and even strangers getting pregnant, the adoption problem, hope and most of all how can infertility affect psychologically a person, and a couple’s sex life.

A marriage on the brink of divorce between two people who forgot how to communicate, how to be husband and wife.

The « then » moments where harmful, and just gave us hope that this marriage could be saved.

A story in which, at the end, you’re going to use a lot of tissues. It’s an easy and a very fast read novel. It’s my first Colleen Hoover book, and it didn’t miss on keeping it’s amazing effects on me. It won’t be the last one for sure !

For all the fan of romantic and emotionnal books, this one is for you.

“What's the secret to a perfect marriage?' The old man leaned forward and looked at me very seriously. 'Our marriage hasn't been perfect. No marriage is perfect. There were times when she gave up on us. There were even more times when I gave up on us. The secret to our longevity is that we never gave up at the same time.”