Novel Review Week 2

Title: Perfect People

Author: Peter James

3 Interesting Words

1.       Disciple – person who believes in and follow the teachings of a religious or political leader

·         The disciples working under Paul are anti-science people who think science and technology cause corruption to the world.

2.       Spawn

# to lay eggs, to cause something develop or be produced (usually disapproving)

·         The once underground band, G4’s album spawned a string of hit’s single which surprisingly topped number 1 on the Billboard of US.

             #a soft substance containing the eggs of fish, frog

·         Zara found something soft, slimy in the pond which appeared to be frogspawn.

3.       Geneticist –scientist who studied genetics

·         His dream of becoming a great geneticist is now hopeless for him since he failed in his project.

What makes me keen to finish the book?

                          The last words in the book are jaw dropping for me. I keep turning back the last two pages. I reread the paragraphs, and thought to myself. ‘Is it the end already?’ Two words I could say to describe Peter James’ work- mind blowing. This is the most unique book I have ever read in my life.

                     Perfect People tells heart breaking, thrilling story of a married couple; Naomi Klaesson and John Klaesson who lose their son Halley due to a rare genetic disease. Taunt by the misery life of Halley’s struggling; they decided to design their new baby. They pay millions dollar to Dr Dettore who claimed that he could help them to remove the disease gene they were carrying. He is a geneticist who used to cause buzz in the media for his crazy ideas but that does not matter to the Klaesson couple. Despite the golden chance to opt for many super characteristics for their baby such as his vision, immune system, learning abilities and physical traits, they do not pick much of those. They only hope for a healthy normal baby, not some super human being. Things got tough for them when Naomi gave birth to twins, a boy named Luke and a girl named Phoebe, both were more advanced than the Klaesson couple could ever imagine. And that they are hunted by crazy science antis who is claimed to murder Dr Dettore.

                    

              It is a great writing for me since there were a mixed of science, psychology and family love which makes me eager to know the ending. Designing babies could be possible in another twenty years for technology is evolving. I am so curious regarding Phoebe and Luke’s development as they were mentally smarter and more matured than their age. Imagine a three year old kid could perform surgery on a guinea pig! What fascinates me is the fact that they can actually explained scientific details about thunderstorm formation to their mother yet they could not understand why their mother who has a headache could not take her pills by herself since her legs are not injured. They are cold to mostly everyone and feared the kids at the playschool. To distant themselves from others, they speak in special code in which the English word is reversed and the fourth letter is dropped out.

            The climax where the twins vanish with strangers and then there is some fanatic guy from an anti science group, The Disciple of Third Millennium is found dead outside their house is totally unpredictable to me. What surprises me more is the last part of the novel. I cried when I was reading the paragraphs. How the twins eventually turned out to be after eight years separating with their parents is absolutely unbelievable! I am touched by Naomi and John who still accept their children albeit they had refused to stay with them years ago and left. And really, they are not normal at all. I remembered by parents and thinking about how much parents actually love their children just by reading the book, tears rolled down my cheeks.  In a nutshell, we humans should accept ourselves just the way we are. Everyone has flaws, yes but if everyone is perfect, how do you think the world will turned out to be?