
Title: My Flawless Life
Author: Yvonne Woon
Genre: YA Contemporary / Mystery / Thriller
Publication Date: February 14th, 2023
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Thank you to the publisher and netgalley for a complimentary earc to review! All opinions are my own.

“At the most elite private school in Washington, DC., whenever anyone has a problem that they need to go away, they hire Hana Yang Lerner.
Hana is a fixer. She knows who to call, what to say, and how to make sure secrets stay where they belong–buried. She can fix anything. Except her own life, which was destroyed when her father, senator Skip Lerner, was arrested for an accident that left one woman nearly dead.
Now Hana’s reputation is ruined and her friends are gone. So when she gets a job from an anonymous client called “Three” to follow her former best friend, Luce Herrera, Hana realizes this might be her way of getting back her old life.
But the dangerous thing about digging is that you never know what you’ll unearth. As Hana uncovers a dark truth about her supposedly flawless classmates, she’s forced to face a secret of her own.” (Goodreads)

I am always down for a YA Mystery / Thriller and when I read this blurb I couldn’t resist requesting! It did have its moments and I was intrigued to know what would happen next, but it did fall short in some areas for me.
The book is told from one point-of-view and it comes from Hana Yang Lerner. There are parts where it goes into past events but they usually weren’t divided by chapter and made it a bit hard to follow along with the timeline. I wish there was a bit more separation.
Hana is a fixer. She wants to fix other people’s problems at her elite high school and make them go away for the person who is willing to pay for her services. I thought that this was a unique job and liked learning about her business and how she operated it. You learn that she does it because 1.) she is good at it but 2.) she has never been able to fix her biggest mistake. Through her mistake she lost her best friend and her friend group. You honestly feel sorry for her but don’t even realize what she had done until the very end of the book. It’s honestly quite tragic and one topic that is rarely talked about in books.
The other characters in the book, besides James who we will get to, are kind of just one dimensional. We honestly don’t get much from them and it’s a shame because I feel like it would have added more emotion to the book, this especially goes for her ex friend Luce. James is an old friend of hers who she hasn’t talked to in awhile but fate brings them back together when they end up on the same undercover job. There is a bit of romance between them at the very end but it didn’t play out very well getting to that point. I didn’t feel anything between them and it kind of just felt forced. He isn’t a bad character, just needed more development.
I did like the plot and thought it was very intriguing and talked about things not usually discussed. It was a very quick read as well which is nice. My only complaint for the plot is that when it came to the climatic points or resolutions it just didn’t have that shock factor and no real consequences you would expect.
Overall, this was a good book. I did like a lot of it but just felt like there could have been a bit more development.
