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Average rating2.8
A fanfic writer brings her favorite TV character to life in this friends-to-enemies-to-lovers novel full of humor and heart.
Ivy Winslow has the house to herself for a week while her parents are away. She’s planning to use this newfound freedom to binge-watch her favorite fantasy TV show, H-MAD, and hang out with her best friend, Henry. She’ll also have to avoid her former best friend-turned enemy (and neighbor), Mack. But things quickly go awry when Ivy wakes up to find Weston, the gorgeous, very fictional main character of H-MAD in her bedroom, claiming to be her soul mate.
Ivy realizes that her fanfic writing has somehow brought Weston as she’s imagined him to life. But it turns out that the tropes she swoons over in her stories are slightly less romantic in reality, and her not-so-fictional crush is causing some real-world problems. To figure out why Weston is here and what to do with him, Ivy decides to team up with Henry and (against her better judgment) Mack. But with Mack back in her life, Ivy starts to wonder if Weston, her “perfect guy”, is the one who’s truly perfect for her . . . or if that was someone else all along.
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I wanted to love this one but I just couldn’t. The characters were really immature (I know they’re teens but they acted more like they were 12 - 13) and I wasn’t invested in the romance at all. The story didn’t work for me.
The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist works for a hetero romance, but not so much for a sapphic one. I wish Sophie Gonzales had put more of a foundation for Ivy and Mack to make it realistic. I know that they are teenagers, but they are ruled by their hormones so chemistry would have been good. Butterflies and nerves are what I remember from crushes in my teen years, so this would have been a key indicator for these two characters.
For some reason, I just couldn't get into this story. I didn't make a connection with the characters. Let me know what you think.
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