Perfect by Judith McNaught
Perfect by Judith McNaught is a novel with a very
interesting story line. This novel too, like the other novels of the author is
a love story but yet again McNaught has surprised the reader by choosing a
completely out of the box set up.
The novel is about
a foster child named Julie Mathison who is completely unaware of her roots. She
never developed a curiosity to probe
about where she was from because she was raised in a very loving household. The
family which adopted her never made her feel as if she was not their own child.
She grew up to be a strong, independent and educated woman. As far as choosing
a profession was concerned she chose to become a teacher so that she could give
back all the love and affection she had received as a child. She was a very
well reputed teacher in her town, Texas.
The other main
character in the novel was Zachary Benedict. He was an academy award winning
director who had been convicted of murdering his wife. The allegation on him
was false but he had failed to prove that, as a result of which he was
arrested.
Zachary came across
Julie while he tried to escape from a prison in Texas. He abducted Julie and imposed on her the idea of driving
him out of Texas to Colorado. While this journey, Julie was initially scared
but she gradually started realizing that
Zachary was wrongly convicted. On the other hand, Zachary started falling for
Julie. After this point the plot becomes more
interesting as the goals in the lives of both the characters starts to
change. They both felt truly committed to each other and their struggle to prove Zachary's innocence
made the story more interesting.
