A review by catreadthat
The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist by Sophie Gonzales

3.0

The first Sophie Gonzales book I didn't love... to be clear, I am a HUGE Sophie Gonzales fan, I've loved all her previous books. But this one... did not hit for me. I definitely didn't expect how zany this one would be -- Ivy loves to write fan fic about her favorite tv show, H-MAD and wakes up one day after a thunderstorm and the main character from H-MAD, Weston, shows up the next day and is in love with her. Ivy is forced to reunite with her former best friend Mack and her current best friend Henry to try and figure out how her fan fiction has come to life. It's written in two timelines -- the past before Ivy and Mack fought and friend broke up and the status quo. The jumping between the two timelines isn't seamless. And the conflict between Ivy and Mack is largely based on miscommunication -- which can really work as a YA trope (bc what high schooler is good at communicating) but it bordered on the extreme in this one.

I could see other people really liking this one. I wasn't expecting the heavy fantasy themes in what appeared to be a normal YA book and could never quite recover. But just because it wasn't for me doesn't mean it isn't for you!