Ellen Hopkins' Perfect is a fantastic companion novel to Impulse . While Impulse tackles the world from the viewpoint of three teens who have ended up in a psychiatric hospital, Perfect tackles the world from the view of four teens who are struggling with the kind of behaviors that can eventually lead to a psychiatric hospital. Cara has parents who demand perfection, and she's been striving for it too. Then she finds herself falling in love with a girl. But her boyfriend seems like the perfect guy. Sean, Cara's boyfriend, is an all-star baseball player. He gets a little help from the pharmaceutical world. Kendra is an aspiring model who just wants to be a size two and can demonstrate the control needed to get there. Andre has fallen in love with Kendra's sister, Jenna. Jenna likes to party a little too much, and also, her father is a racist--a pretty big problem when Andre's black. Over all, I enjoy the way Hopkins writes. I don't read many novels ...