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Perfect Red {Review and Giveaway}

March 16, 2013 by Jennifer

Perfect Red features some of a booklover’s favorite things — publishers, one writer chasing the story that won’t let go and another writer searching for the next big hit, and a passionate independently-owned bookseller. I loved these details! These themes and an interesting historical setting makes a good story great. It takes place amidst 1950’s McCarthy-era persecution of suspected communists that hit the arts community especially hard.

Lucy Lawrence is a top editor’s secretary, but she has dreams of writing. She comes alongside him, helping him to hide a secret that interferes with his ability to do his job, hoping to gain more of an “in.” When the handsome author TJ Wright meets her, he calls her his muse. She certainly feels he’s attractive, but more than that she teams up with up wondering what he can teach her.

In the meantime, her sister doesn’t understand her choice to live on her own in NYC when she is perfectly happy to settle down in their hometown with a husband who can provide for her financially. Her cousin June wants her to do what all the other young single ladies are doing — use the lipstick called “Perfect Red” to lure in a man, be it TJ Wright or someone else.

Lucy’s goal isn’t to land a man, but she does long to experience some passion, and she is intrigued by the myths surrounding the creation of Perfect Red, which leads to the idea of a story that won’t let her go. Her father is a chemist, and he too is pursuing the elusive perfect red color, a passion that won’t let him go either.

All of these people (and others in the novel as well) are trying to follow their passions. This brings disaster to some and ultimate fulfillment to others and created the kind of dramatic tension that I love getting lost in.

Jennie Nash is another one of those authors who I’ve enjoyed following, loving both of her novels that I reviewed The Threadbare Heart and The Only True Genius in the Family. She decided to self-publish this novel, and knowing that makes the themes in this novel ring even more true. I’m happy to be able to help her get the word out.

She has offered up a copy to one winner, available as an ebook on any platform, or a hard copy if you prefer (and check out the price on the ebook version — worth the money if you don’t win!). Leave a comment telling me how you like to read your books if you’d like to win.The giveaway has closed.

You can get an extra entry by leaving a relevant comment on Jennie’s On Reading post “Shopping at the Department Store of Ideas“.

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Filed Under: Fiction, Historical, Jennifer

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Comments

  1. Sarah T says

    March 16, 2013 at 8:22 pm

    Sounds intriguing! I’d love to have a hardback copy.

  2. Liz V. says

    March 17, 2013 at 1:17 am

    Another new-to-me author. Thank you for the review and giveaway. I would prefer hardback, should I win.

  3. diane says

    March 17, 2013 at 10:59 am

    This novel sounds fascinating and unique. thanks.

  4. Don says

    March 17, 2013 at 11:47 am

    My wife would like to read this one.

  5. ellie says

    March 17, 2013 at 12:04 pm

    I would enjoy reading this novel. hardback would be great. The post was enlightening.

  6. april yedinak says

    March 17, 2013 at 12:20 pm

    I would like a hardcopy, since I don’t yet have an e-reader.

  7. Anne says

    March 17, 2013 at 12:37 pm

    Exceptional giveaway which interests me.

  8. riTa says

    March 18, 2013 at 9:45 am

    Writers, publishers, booksellers…yes, I’m in! e-book, preferably.

  9. Katie says

    March 19, 2013 at 3:11 pm

    I have a Kindle, which i use for the gym, but I also love reading hard backs! Sounds like a fun read!

    • Jennifer says

      March 26, 2013 at 9:02 pm

      Katie–You won! Please let me know if you’d prefer the Kindle version or paperback, and the best way to get it to you (which email address or physical address).

  10. Beth C says

    March 19, 2013 at 8:10 pm

    I have a kindle so I read both ways but I prefer the hard copies.

  11. Jessica Tan says

    March 19, 2013 at 11:50 pm

    On my kindle . . . snuggled in bed!

  12. Anita Yancey says

    March 21, 2013 at 7:36 pm

    I like to read my books in hard copy. This book sounds really good. Please enter me. Thanks!

  13. Wehaf says

    March 23, 2013 at 12:18 pm

    I prefer physical copies, but ebooks are good for traveling.

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