The Perfectionists
Sara Shepard
- Reading
- Try reading a few chapters together or check in after the opening setup. This offers a chance to gauge how the suspense and sexual situations are handled before deciding how to continue.
- Themes
- Perfection and pressure: The five girls are described as driven to be perfect, whatever the cost. The premise connects perfectionism with high personal pressure, but does not establish whether the story questions or endorses that drive.
- A joking plan and a real death: The girls imagine killing Nolan jokingly; after he is killed in the way they discussed, they become suspects and search for the real killer. The premise turns an imagined act into a murder mystery; it does not establish what the story says about responsibility or the seriousness of the joke.
- Worth knowing
- The story includes murder, a plan to kill someone, and sexual situations. The nature or detail of the sexual content, and how directly the death is depicted, are not specified.