It was an interesting idea along the same lines as the Chemical Garden series, only in my opinion written much better. I do enjoy a healthy dollop of Dystopia! Perfected certainly filled the brief there. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband and three kids. Her essays and short stories have been published in literary journals including Indiana Review and Saint Ann’s Review. Luckily, being a writer turned out to be just as magical. As a child, she wanted to grow up to be either a unicorn or mermaid. Kate Jarvik Birch is a visual artist, author, playwright, daydreamer, and professional procrastinator. For fans of Keira Cass’s Selection series and Lauren DeStefano’s Chemical Garden series, Perfected is a chilling look at what it means to be human, and a stunning celebration of the power of love to set us free, wrapped in a glamorous-and dangerous-bow. Because the only thing more dangerous than staying with Penn’s family is leaving…and if she’s unsuccessful, she’ll face a fate far worse than death. But when Ella is kidnapped and thrust into the dark underworld lurking beneath her pampered life, she’s faced with an unthinkable choice. Falling for him goes against every rule she knows…and the freedom she finds with him is intoxicating.

He’s the only person who sees beyond the perfect exterior to the girl within. Ella is happy with her new role as playmate for a congressman’s bubbly young daughter, but she doesn’t expect Penn, the congressman’s handsome and rebellious son.

Trained from birth to be graceful, demure, and above all, perfect, these “family companions” enter their masters’ homes prepared to live a life of idle luxury. As soon as the government passed legislation allowing humans to be genetically engineered and sold as pets, the rich and powerful rushed to own beautiful girls like Ella.

Perfected by Kate Jarvik Birch