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The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist
by Sophie Gonzales
Thank you to Netgalley, Martin's Press, and Wednesday Books for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review
Ivy is 16, and being left alone in the house for a week by her parents going away. Her only plans are to watch her favourite show H-MAD, hang out with her best friend Henry, and avoid Mack her ex-best friend and neighbour. All is going to plan until the night after she was writing some fanfic during a storm she wakes up with a boy in her bed. The boy in question is Weston, the main character of her favourite show, and lead in all her fanfics. He claims to be her boyfriend, and the man of her dreams and she doesn't know what to do. She recruits Henry and Mack to figure out what is going on and how to fix it. Along the way friendships get mended and formed, and Ivy and Mack both finally talk through what happened to them and what they both want in the future between them.
The premise of this one had a lot of potential to be so fun and campy. And while it did accomplish that to an extent I found it lacking. Maybe I was just the wrong demographic for this one as it does read quite young ya, but I just felt everything was so surface level. Fanfiction and fandom have always been part of my life and what brings be joy so this seemed like a book I would really enjoy but it just missed the mark. The writing and plot felt very clunky, and the characters did not feel very complex. The moral of the story was a good one though, and the importance of compromising in friendship, and have interests outside of the other person. Overall it was interesting but just not for me.
Ivy is 16, and being left alone in the house for a week by her parents going away. Her only plans are to watch her favourite show H-MAD, hang out with her best friend Henry, and avoid Mack her ex-best friend and neighbour. All is going to plan until the night after she was writing some fanfic during a storm she wakes up with a boy in her bed. The boy in question is Weston, the main character of her favourite show, and lead in all her fanfics. He claims to be her boyfriend, and the man of her dreams and she doesn't know what to do. She recruits Henry and Mack to figure out what is going on and how to fix it. Along the way friendships get mended and formed, and Ivy and Mack both finally talk through what happened to them and what they both want in the future between them.
The premise of this one had a lot of potential to be so fun and campy. And while it did accomplish that to an extent I found it lacking. Maybe I was just the wrong demographic for this one as it does read quite young ya, but I just felt everything was so surface level. Fanfiction and fandom have always been part of my life and what brings be joy so this seemed like a book I would really enjoy but it just missed the mark. The writing and plot felt very clunky, and the characters did not feel very complex. The moral of the story was a good one though, and the importance of compromising in friendship, and have interests outside of the other person. Overall it was interesting but just not for me.