All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover Summary

All Your Perfects is a contemporary romance novel about Quinn and Graham, a married couple whose once-perfect relationship is threatened by infertility and growing emotional distance. The 2018 novel alternates between "Then" chapters showing their passionate early relationship and "Now" chapters depicting their struggling marriage seven years later. The story explores whether their resounding love with a perfect beginning can survive the heartbreak of unfulfilled dreams and the mistakes they've made along the way.

All Your Perfects is ideal for readers who appreciate emotionally intense contemporary romance that tackles real-life marital struggles rather than fairy-tale beginnings. The book suits those interested in stories about infertility, marriage crisis, and emotional resilience, though it includes content warnings for discussions of infertility, self-harm, and miscarriage. Fans of Colleen Hoover's signature style of heartbreaking page-turners with emotional depth will find this novel particularly compelling.

All Your Perfects is widely considered worth reading for its raw, respectful handling of sensitive topics like infertility and marriage breakdown. The novel delivers Hoover's trademark emotional intensity with a mature focus on an established relationship rather than a meet-cute romance. Reviewers praised it as "heart wrecking," "eye opening," and a perfect mixture of love, sadness, pain, passion, and healing that subverts typical romance genre expectations.

All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover was published on July 17, 2018. The 384-page novel quickly appeared on both the New York Times Bestseller list and USA Today's Best Selling Books list following its release. This was one of Hoover's later works, coming two years after her breakout hit It Ends with Us (2016) and the same year as her psychological thriller Verity.

All Your Perfects explores infertility as its central theme, examining how cultural biases about fertility affect self-esteem and strain relationships. The novel addresses emotional infidelity, the weight of unmet expectations in marriage, and the question of whether love alone can sustain a partnership through repeated loss. Additional themes include forgiveness, communication breakdown, grief, and the courage required to either rebuild or release a damaged relationship.

All Your Perfects alternates between two timelines labeled "Then" and "Now" throughout the narrative. The "Then" chapters show Quinn and Graham's romantic beginning when they meet after both being cheated on by their respective partners, while the "Now" chapters reveal their marriage seven years later in crisis. This dual timeline structure allows readers to contrast their passionate early love against their current emotional distance, creating dramatic irony as the story reveals how they arrived at their breaking point.

Quinn and Graham's relationship begins when they both discover their partners cheating on each other. After marrying and trying to start a family, Quinn suffers a rare cervical ectopic pregnancy that results in hemorrhaging severe enough to require a hysterectomy, eliminating any chance of natural conception. Graham briefly kisses another woman named Andrea during their fertility struggles, deepening Quinn's pain. The marriage nearly ends when Quinn flies to Europe to stay with her sister Ava, but Graham follows with love letters they'd written years earlier, and they reconcile with plans to move to Italy together.

All Your Perfects ends on a hopeful note with Quinn and Graham choosing to stay together and move to Italy to be near Quinn's sister Ava. After Graham brings their collection of love letters to Europe and Quinn reads the additional letters he wrote over the years addressing their marital struggles, she realizes his enduring love and commitment. While they cannot have biological children due to Quinn's hysterectomy, they decide their love is worth fighting for, offering a realistic rather than fairy-tale resolution to their crisis.

The most devastating moment occurs when Quinn experiences severe stomach pain and bleeding, leading to the discovery that she has a cervical ectopic pregnancy—a rare, nonviable pregnancy. The hemorrhaging is so severe that doctors must perform an emergency hysterectomy, permanently removing any possibility of Quinn and Graham conceiving naturally. This medical crisis compounds their existing fertility struggles and becomes the catalyst for their marriage's near-collapse, as Quinn grieves not just the immediate loss but the death of their shared dream of parenthood.

All Your Perfects differs from It Ends with Us by focusing on an established marriage in crisis rather than a new relationship plagued by domestic violence. While It Ends with Us tackles the difficult topic of abuse and leaving toxic relationships, All Your Perfects explores infertility and emotional infidelity within a fundamentally loving partnership. Both novels showcase Colleen Hoover's ability to handle sensitive subjects with emotional depth, but All Your Perfects subverts romance genre expectations by centering on whether love can survive prolonged heartbreak rather than whether it can blossom despite trauma.

While widely praised, All Your Perfects may feel emotionally manipulative to readers who prefer lighter romance or find the fertility struggle narrative too heavy. Some readers might criticize Graham's emotional infidelity with Andrea as an inadequately addressed betrayal that gets overshadowed by Quinn's medical crisis. The novel's intense focus on pregnancy and childbearing as central to marital happiness could alienate readers who are childfree by choice or who believe the narrative places too much emphasis on biological parenthood as validation of a woman's worth.

All Your Perfects is a standalone contemporary romance novel and not part of a series. While some sources incorrectly list it as part of the "Hopeless" series, it shares no characters or plot connections with Colleen Hoover's other works. Hoover is known for writing both standalone novels like It Ends with Us, Verity, and November 9, as well as series like the Slammed trilogy (Slammed, Point of Retreat, and This Girl) and the Maybe series. All Your Perfects can be read independently without any prior knowledge of Hoover's other books.