Perfect Days

A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English language debut of Brazil s most celebrated young crime writer Teo Avelar is a loner He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn t have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence of his medical school cadaver that is, until he meets Clarice She s almost his exact opposite exotic, spontaneous, unafraid to speak her mind An aspiring screenwriter, she s working on a screenplay called Perfect Days about three friends who go on a road trip across Brazil in search of romance Teo is obsessed He begins to stalk her, first following her to her university, then to her home, and when she ultimately rejects him, he kidnaps her and they embark upon their very own twisted odyssey across Brazil, tracing the same route outlined in her screenplay Through it all, Teo is certain that time is all he needs to prove to Clarice that they are made for each other, that time is all he needs to make her fall in love with him But as the journey progresses, he digs himself deeper and deeper into a pit that he can t get out of, stopping at nothing to ensure that no one gets in the way of their life together Both tense and lurid, and brimming with suspense from the very first page, Perfect Days is a psychological thriller in the vein of Patricia Highsmith s The Talented Mr Ripley a chilling journey in the passenger seat with a psychopath, and the English language debut of one of Brazil s most deliciously dark young writers. Read Perfect Days – kino-fada.fr He felt bad it was the first time he had thought of himself as a villain By stuffing Clarice in a suitcase and bringing her home, had he become a criminal this is a play on the abduction thriller which morphs into a view spoiler revenge story and then a reversal of the revenge story hide spoiler , and it features teo, one of those he puts the antiin antihero narrators who is somewhere on the spectrum, or who at the very least knew how to keep his feelings separate, which transforms his He felt bad it was the first time he had thought of himself as a villain By stuffing Clarice in a suitcase and bringing her home, had he become a criminal this is a play on the abduction thriller which morphs into a view spoiler revenge story and then a reversal of the revenge story hide spoiler , and it features teo, one of those he puts the antiin antihero narrators who is somewhere on the spectrum, or who at t...Find all of my reviews at as well go ahead and file this one under that awkward moment when a book about a nutter who kidnaps the girl of his dreams isn t quite weird enough to please mePerfect Days had a ton of potential I mean the very first chapter started off by explaining how medical student Teo has made besties for the resties with a fellow classmate named Gertrude The only problem Gertrude is the cadaverAhhhh, quit being such a Find all of my reviews at as well go ahead and file this one under that awkward moment when a book about a nutter who kidnaps the girl of his dreams isn t quite weird enough to please mePerfect Days had a ton of potential I me...READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.What would it say about me if I recommend this book to my friends Probably in good conscience, I should never suggest this book to anybodyHowever, you should see me over here, I m still laughing silly I just finish reading Perfect Days , by Raphael Montes, Brazilian Crime novelist, seconds ago I suppose it s suppose to be chilling and creepy but I found it hilarious SOOOOOO OUT OF THE BOX I just had to laugh After reading the first chapter a...Good concept Terrible execution.The writing was very lacking There was barely any characterization beyond villain and victim There was ZERO tension Things just happened without any build up It was so straightforward that it kind of felt like reading a murderer s to do list There was no surprise to anything and I couldn t get invested or root for anything anyone I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop and it never did There was one attempt at a twist that reversed itself within 20 pa Good concept Terrible execution.The writing was very lacking There was barely any characterization beyond villain and victim There was ZERO tension Things just happened without any build up...Mais um livro lido do mo o Raphael Eu confesso que a escrita desse livro me prendeu bastante Mais do que Jantar Secreto, que o livro mais recente, mas que li antes deste A narra o em terceira pessoa, mas muito conduzida pelo ponto de vista do Theo, que um cara LOKO E pra mim isso foi o mais interessante, acompanhar como a cabe a dele torce e retorce todas as informa es externas Eu senti dio por ele o tempo TODO.Claro, j conhecendo a escrita do Raphael, eu sei que o que ele gosta de Mais um livro lido do mo o Raphael Eu confesso que a escrita desse livro me prendeu bastante Mais do que Jantar Secreto, que o livro mais recente, mas que li antes deste A narra o em terceira pessoa, mas muito conduzida pelo ponto de vista do Theo, que um cara LOKO E pra mim isso foi o mais interessante, acompanhar como a cabe a dele torce e retorce todas as informa es externas Eu senti dio por ele o tempo TODO.Claro, j conhecendo a escrita do Raphael, eu sei que o que ele gosta de causar na gente desconforto E desconforto o que voc...5 Creepy and Addicting StarsI remember getting an email about this book and I thought it wasn t for me I m a romance reviewer Then I kept on going back to this email and thought to myself, the summary sounded really good After a few days I decided to give this book a go.Perfect Days is a creepy, but addictive thriller book I enjoyed every second of it and I read it one sitting It had the perfect balance of dialogue to narrative writing to plot development I was sucked in by the main chara 5 Creepy and Addicting StarsI remember getting an email about this book and I thought it wasn t for me I m a romance reviewer Then I kept on going back to this email and thought to myself, the summary sounded really good After a few days I decided to give this book a go.Perfect Days is a creepy, but addictive thriller book I enjoyed every second of it and I read it one sitting It had the perfect balance of dialogue to narrative writing to plot development I was sucked in by the main character and I was a fan of the psycho Because Teo Avelar is a psycho in my opinion, a justified psycho, but a psyc...Thank you Netgalley and Raphael Montes for providing a copy of Perfect Days in exchange for an honest review.Side note I m not sure if this book was supposed to be funny in a satire way with dark humor, but that is how I took it and in that case it was BRILLIANT I may be insane for loving this book as much as I did, but I couldn t help but actually laugh out loud as I read this Since this book is basically one giant spoiler, everything below this is fair game and your fault if you read Thank you Netgalley and Raphael Montes for providing a copy of Perfect Days in exchange for an honest review.Side note I m not sure if this book was supposed to be funny in a satire way with dark humor, but that is how I took it and in that case it was BRILLIANT I may be insane for loving this book as much as I did, but I couldn t help but actually laugh out loud as I read this Since this book is basically one giant spoiler, everything below this is fair game and your fault i...Oh my days Well for a start that was a one sitting read it may take me WEEKS to recover from, secondly my best advice would be not to read TOO much about it until you read it The small blurb in bold above isthan enough Don t let anything spoil it for you and I promise that there will be no spoilers in this I m going to talk about the reading of it muchthan I am the plot of it A small plot soundbite Teo falls in love and when his love is not returned in a way he deems appropriat Oh my days Well for a start that was a one sitting read it may take me WEEKS to recover from, secondly my best advice would be not to read TOO much about it until you read it The small blurb in bold above isthan enough Don t let anything spoil it for you and I promise that there will be no spoi...This clever and twisty Brazilian crime novel is a great and page turning read This type of domestic noir is quite in vogue at the moment, and there are a couple of other excellent novels written in a similar vein recently Lemaitre s Blood Wedding, and Fossum s I Can See In The Dark Brazil is a surprise addition to international crime noir fiction, but certainly a welcome one Teodoro, a loner and medical student, living with his paraplegic mother, meets Clarice a socialite, and very much an This clever and twisty Brazilian crime novel is a great and page turning read This type of do...5.0 Stars Video Review I have always had a personal affinity for incredibly dark, disturbing suspense novels, particularly those involving kidnapping narratives So it should be no surprise that I absolutely loved this sick story.The translation was very well done with a taunt writing style The plot itself was incredibly dark and disturbing, filled with morbid, visceral details The story is told from the perspective of the story s antagonist, Tao, who is a disturb 5.0 Stars Video Review I have always had a personal affinity for incredibly dark, disturbing suspense novels, particularly those involving kidnapping narratives So it should be no surprise that I absolutely loved this sick story.The translation was very well done with a taunt writing style The plot itself was incredibly dark and disturbing, filled with morbid, visceral details The story is told from the perspective of the story s antagonist, Tao, who is a disturbed, emotionally stunted ...

• English
• 16 January 2017
Raphael Montes
• Hardcover
• 272 pages
• 1594206406
• Raphael Montes
• Perfect Days