Reviews - The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

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The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

Sophie Gonzales

3.47 AVERAGE

marybeebooks's review against another edition

5.0

Thank you Netgalley, Sophie Gonzales, and Wednesday Books for sending me an eARC for my honest review. Also thank you Wednesday Books for sending me a physical ARC. 🥰🫶

I thought this book had such a fun premise! This book has two parts - the past where MC Ivy and Mack were friends and the present where she and Mack aren’t friends anymore. It switches back and forth and throughout the story, we learn how Ivy and Mack went from being the best of friends to where they are now - ex-friends. Ivy is obsessed with this TV show that features a group of supermodels who get superpowers, her favorite character being Weston, who she writes fanfiction about. Ivy watches this show with her new best friend, Henry. One night she writes a self-insert fanfiction in which she is dating Weston and the next morning, Weston is alive and in her bed! Their first meeting is very comical! Weston believes himself to be real and Ivy’s boyfriend and throughout the book displays different personalities based on the different types of fanfiction Ivy wrote. I thought this was such a fun touch! It was especially funny to see Weston act as a romantic interest in enemies to lovers and a coffee shop AU. Ivy recruits the help of her best friend, Henry, and reluctantly agrees to work with her ex-friend, Mack to sort out the Weston situation. As they deal with Weston, Ivy and Mack become close again and apologize to each other for past mistakes. 🫶

I really liked how the magic element was handled and how the reasoning behind how a fanfiction character came to life never really got answered. It's just something that happened! It definitely has the COM in rom-com! 😂 Even though this book is very funny, it also has two very important lessons - friends don’t always have to have everything in common and no romantic partner is perfect. Even your ideal perfect person isn't always who you truly want. Ivy had what she believed to be the “perfect partner” in Weston, someone she specifically wrote for herself, and yet given the choice she still chose the very real and imperfect, Mack. 🥹

I loved reading this nerdy romcom with sapphic friends to ex-friends to sorta friends to lovers. There were so many fun nods to fanfics that anyone who read/writes fanfic will pick up on and it's so fun to see that in a published book!☺️

🌈Rep: Bisexual MC, Black lesbian LI, main sapphic relationship, AroAce SC

jajanette26's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ocepomww's review

3.25

lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

it was okay, binged listened, would be a good movie (written very imaginatively), it wouldve been better if rachel came to life and it was a sorta one sided enemies to lovers and they end up together or it pushes her and mack together… faster. Weston pissed me off too much lol. the writing was good in some parts but kiddy in others, also i liked the past/present aspect more than i thought i would