Laura Smith's Reviews > Perfect Glass

Perfect Glass isn’t a book you just read. It is a book you absorb and that absorbs you. You become immersed and invested in the story and the words and the characters. You’ll be conflicted between wanting to fly through the chapters to see how the story is revealed, and wanting to savor each delicate emotion and precise description.

Laura Anderson Kurk’s writing is solid, fragile and reflective, just like glass. And the perfect story she has crafted is filled with soul searching and discovery. In the sequel to Glass Girl, Meg and her boyfriend, Henry, must test long distance romance. Throw in the new boy at school, reflective, indie musician Quinn and their challenge gets even harder. Kurk does an exquisite job of changing point of views between Henry and Meg, showing something we rarely get to see—both sides and emotions of a conflicted relationship. Throughout their separation, Meg and Henry learn answers aren’t easy or obvious, and solutions are rarely where you look for them. Instead clarity appears in the unexpected—in ways too beautiful to predict or explain.