Thank you NetGalley and publisher for this book!!

What a good book!! This one had me hooked from page one! I could t put it down. I loved the writing style of this book. I lived the characters and they had great chemistry.

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for providing this book, with my honest review below.

All the Perfect Days reflects on what a person might do if they could see how long those days around them had to live. Would it change how we treat them or what we tell them? Would we hold more closely those those that are leaving us but unintentionally neglect those that seemingly aren’t? Would it perhaps manifest a death that wouldn’t happen if we tell them?

These are questions I considered throughout the read, and some were answered for main character Charlie, but I do believe the point is to reflect on that for yourself. In this case Charlie, a doctor, can suddenly see how many days anyone he provides care for have left to live. This comes at an interesting time given Charlie has lived his life in suspension (in his eyes) for the past seven years to keep an eye on his mother, who doesn’t really speak to him. In a span of a few weeks Charlie not only believes in this strange occurrence but is faced with his past coming to a head while looking towards the future he thought he wanted. But everything pauses when Charlie believes his advice to a patient with one day left actually causes her death, quickly followed by change after change that leaves him wondering if he can believe himself.

I would like to not give too much away here but the story is thought provoking and I appreciated reading about the closure Charlie finds. I did find it left a lot of loose ends I would have liked explored with MaryAnn, Martin, Lorraine, and Abigail most of all. Perhaps this fits into the theme of life, and death, being unexpected and not tidy, but for such a concept to be introduced I expected something more significant to come with it. But then, I like things black and white in my reading and the beauty of this story is in the writing and ambiguity of the concept itself. I’d recommend this for readers along with the reflection on what you’d do if you could see someone’s days left to live.