Perfected

By: Kate Jarvik Birch

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

As soon as the government passed legislation allowing humans to be genetically engineered and sold as pets, the rich and powerful rushed to own beautiful girls like Ella. Trained from birth to be graceful, demure, and perfect, these "family companions" enter their masters' homes prepared to live lives of idle luxury.

Ella is happy with her new role as playmate for a congressman's bubbly young daughter, but she doesn't expect Penn, the congressman's handsome and rebellious son. He's the only person who sees beyond the perfect exterior to the girl within. Falling for him goes against every rule she knows, and the freedom she finds with him is intoxicating.

But when Ella is kidnapped and thrust into the dark underworld lurking beneath her pampered life, she's faced with an unthinkable choice. Because the only thing more dangerous than staying with Penn's family is leaving...and if she's unsuccessful, she'll face a fate far worse than death.

©2014 Kate Jarvik Birch (P)2015 Tantor

Critic reviews

"Compelling, imaginative, and unique. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough!" (Mary Lindsey, author of ( Shattered Souls)

Perfected Is Perfect

First, the idea for Perfected is striking in it's originality, if nothing short of revolting in it's nature and origins. People as pets? How can you not be intrigued? How can you not be disgusted? How can you not read it?

Layered with nuanced lessons about different types of freedom, Perfected will leave the thinking person feeling both grateful and wary.

Ok idea

Ending could've been better but interesting enough. Kind of short, could have been more detailed and fun to have a sequel.

Good job but the narrator need two more enthusiasm

This book is amazing they need to put the second book tarnished on here called tarnished

great narrator beautiful emotional performance

performance too loud you to be in the situation good definition of age fears frustration wonderful listen a new insight to what ifs

Loved this story

This story is wonderful. Even though it is written simplistically and the romance involved is cheesy, I think it really captured the feelings and thoughts of the naïve, innocent main character. The story left me wanting more and left me thinking deeply, which I didn't really expect. I recommend it for sure.

Goodish

This was a fun book. It had an interesting premise. I felt there was a lot more that could have been done with it, however. The narrator was great, but couldn't breathe much life into Penn, who just wasn't that exciting a romantic interest. I enjoyed the concept enough that I don't regret the purchase.

The Ending is just wow.

The whole story is pretty good and the whole book makes you want to continue going and not stop listening to it. And then the ending is just well wow but if you don’t go through the whole book and skip to the ending, you won’t care too much about the characters until the ending.

I wanted more.

People say a good story leaves you wanting more and in this case I wanted to see the development of the Pet learn to read and write but even more, I'd like this to have been a non 11-13 book, without being graphic though, I'd like to learn more of other pets lives. Only seeing two pets left some to my imagination but i needed more story. Indeed a sequel after Niagara
i also would have liked to know more of how they/she was born and how they were treated before she was purchased. definitely more prefacing or at least flashbacks other than the same red door felt like the writer wrote a lot but then some crazy editor just bulldozed chunks of paragraphs, deleting what i would like to have read.

VERY intriguing opening to the series

I was very intrigued by the premise of this book. it's exactly the style I was looking for. The pace was perfect. It lleft me curious every time I put it down and I couldn't wait to get back to it. immediately moving on to the next book in the series!

Horrible

Just bleh, the story line was just boring and super slow. I just finished it because I paid for it. But I’m not listening to the rest of the books.