Perfectly Weird

The Perfects #2

by Amy Martin

Book 2 of The Perfects series.

Mean Girls + Freaky Friday + Sabrina, The Teenage Witch = The Perfects

High school senior Dani Maguire has it all—money, popularity, and a hot boyfriend. Her life is perfect…or it would be if she could shake the guilt she feels over dumping her childhood friends on her way to the top.

But when Dani wakes up in the body of her former friend Janey Douchette, her almost-perfect life gets turned upside-down. Not only is she stuck in a new body, but that body’s been kidnapped by a mysterious family with connections to both Dani and Janey. And when her kidnappers reveal long-held secrets that will impact Dani’s family and friends, Dani must figure out how to outwit her captors and deal with her weird new reality—and all its imperfections.

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First published November 23, 2017

About the author

Amy Martin wrote and illustrated her first book at the age of ten and gave it to her fourth grade teacher, who hopefully lost it in her house somewhere and didn't share it with anyone else.

The first novel she published as a grown-up, In Your Dreams, was a 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Semi-finalist in Young Adult Fiction. In Your Dreams was the first of a four book series (In Your Dreams, As You Wake, Before You Sleep, and Beyond Your Dreams). Her second YA series is titled The Perfects.

Amy lives with her husband and a ferocious attack tabby named Cleo, and when not writing or reading, she can usually be found watching sports, drinking coffee, or indulging her crippling Twitter habit (and, sometimes, doing all three at once).

Reviews

[Jennifer Tooker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Strange Days

Perfectly Weird is the second in The Perfects series of books by Amy Martin. Following the same timeline as Perfectly Normal, this instalment tells Dani McGuire’s story as the popular cheerleader wakes up on the floor of her former friend’s childhood home. Having assumed the body of her former friend Janey Douchette, she is lost and alone. When she tries to attempt to get back home, Dani finds herself kidnapped by a pair of brothers and their mysterious mother. The longer she is held captive, the more is revealed about not only her but her family, friends and her fellow Perfects. Dani’s life is turned upside down and inside out as she learns that not all is as it seems in Ridgeview and the surrounding areas. The only problem is, will she ever be able to get back to herself to do anything about it?

For as much as I enjoyed Perfectly Normal, I believe that Martin has upped the ante with Perfectly Weird. As the timelines run concurrently between both books, you could technically read these in any order; but getting Rachel’s version first, followed by where Dani was during the same time frame was very effective. I really loved watching the prim and proper cheerleader homecoming queen trying to come to grips with the fact that her once Barbie blonde hair is now blue and her designer clothes replaced with Cure concert t-shirts. Toss in twin captors, Jackson and Joel, and now Dani is questioning her loyalties even as she is inhabiting another person’s body. Even though the same story is told from a different angle in Perfectly Weird, Martin has still crafted a totally unique story that serves to advance the overall storyline and has left me looking forward to the next in the series to find out how the story ends.