📖 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙂𝙪𝙮 𝘿𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙀𝙭𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙮 𝙎𝙤𝙥𝙝𝙞𝙚 𝙂𝙤𝙣𝙯𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙨

“𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴, 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬, 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘸, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘮, 𝘴𝘰 𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭. 𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭.“

💖 This was a quick fun read! It really reminded me of a OG Disney Original Movie. Ivy is going through the motions of being 16 years old. After coming out as bisexual, she realized she was in love with her friend Mack. Unfortunately, they had a falling out and throughout the book you get flashbacks that paint the picture as to where everything went wrong.

Weston’s character was fun! I felt like the plot overall was original. The fact that Ivy writes fan fiction was really cool. All of the different scenarios she set up with Weston in her stories had me cracking up.

The main plot of this story isn’t about this fictional character coming to life. The main plot is about Ivy coming to terms with the problems that existed in her relationship with Mack, and vocalizing her feelings. Mack and Ivy both were in the wrong and I felt like by the end of the story, they realized that! The is a clean young adult LGBT story with only kissing on page.

Tropes:
🏳️‍🌈 LGBT
🫶🏼 Young Adult
✨ Magical Realism

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙂𝙪𝙮 𝘿𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙀𝙭𝙞𝙨𝙩 is out now! Thank you to NetGalley & Wednesday Books for my early copy of this story so that I could share this honest review!

(4.5 stars)

I grew up on fanfics and it’s evident that the author did too. A lot of times when fanfics are brought up in books it’s awkward and obvious that the author did not understand the community, but not here. This is a love letter to the fanfic community.

I loved the alternating timelines as well as the characters but I think Ivy did take too long figuring out what was going on.

All in all this is another perfect book by Sophie Gonzales.

*review based on an Arc Copy*

This book is so good! After reading this, I'll 100% have to check out her other books.

Bonus points for AroAce rep!

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing this eARC.

The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist follows teen Ivy who accidentally, magically brings her favorite character from her favorite TV show to live through the power of her fanfic.

This was a cute read! Sophie Gonzales has always been the kind of writer who embraces the camp that comes with fandom of all kinds, and that has never been more clear than it is in this book. Getting to see snippet's of Ivy's cringey, error-ridden, teen fic was everything to me, especially as someone who posted -- and firmly believed in -- her own absolutely god-awful fanfic at that age. The story itself is at times funny, at times cheesy, often a little messy and complicated, and overall just really sweet and lovely. The major escalation of the stakes as we barreled toward the book's conclusion was nothing short of exactly how it feels to read a fanfic, and I ate up every bit of it.

This definitely won't be everyone's cup of tea, but it absolutely was mine!

Thank you MacMillan Audio for the Audiobook Arc exchange for an honest review.
Thank you Netgalley for the E-Arc in exchange for an honest review.
DNF @4%
When I first requested this book, I thought the main character was the Black Girl on the cover. Come to find out that the black girl was the best friend/ love interest. Which is nothing wrong with that but the main character is already getting on my nerves already for some reason. So I just go ahead and back out before I get deeper. Also the Narration kind of was getting of my nerves as well. So this is not my cup of tea. I do recommend this for the diversity, LBGTQ rep and people who love fanfictions.

Thank you Wednesday Books for my #gifted copy of The Perfect Guy Doesn’t Exist! #wednesdaybooks #ThePerfectGuyDoesntExist #SMPInfluencers

𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐆𝐮𝐲 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐄𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭
𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫: 𝐒𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐧𝐳𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬
𝐏𝐮𝐛 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟔, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒

4★

This book had so many amazing elements and I really loved this romcom by author Sophie Gonzales! This was my first time reading a book by this author, but I’m super excited to go back and read five past books written by Gonzales!

The Perfect Guy Doesn’t Exist, follows Ivy, who is left home alone for a week while her parents are away. Her only plans for the week are to binge her favorite TV show, H-MAD, and hang out with her friend Henry. But when Ivy wakes up to find Weston, the fictional main character from H-MAD in her bedroom, she realizes that her fanfic writing somehow brought Weston as she imagined him to life. To figure out why Weston is here and what to do about him, she teams up with Henry, and her former best friend turned enemy, Mack. Now, with Mack back in her life, Ivy starts to wonder if Weston really is her perfect guy after all.

🩷Young Adult
🩷Queer Rom-Com
🩷Fan Fiction Gone Wrong
🩷Friends to Enemies to Lovers

Posted on Goodreads on March 25, 2024: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/144922955?ref=nav_profile_l
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**Posted on Amazon on March 26, 2024
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This is such a funny & sweet story about friendship, and how what we wish for may not be the best in reality.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

💭 overall thoughts:
This book is perfect for the current generation of teens.

I feel like it could really open up so many conversations about friendship, identity, how we treat those around us, how others perceive us, and how to have open and truthful conversations.

It could be supportive in giving teens the words/vocabulary they may need to express themselves, or even just to identify how they’re feeling.

📖 story:
I love stories told in dual timeline - we have the past where we see Ivy (our MC) & Mack as best friends, and what broke them apart.
In the present we have the wild story of Ivy’s fanfic come to life, and how her & Mack rebuild what they had.

🤍side characters:
Weston (Ivy’s fanfic) is hilarious, showing us how odd so many tropes we love to read about would be if they actually happened!

Henry is an integral part of the story too, showing that we can get different needs met from different important people in our lives.

Thank you to NetGalley & St. Martin’s Press/Wednesday Books for an advanced copy. All opinions are my own.

Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to access this book in exchange for an honest review!

I loved this romance so much it was cute and i couldn’t put it down. I can’t recommend it enough. 😭

I loved every book I’ve read from this author !

The Perfect Guy Doesn’t Exist really was not for me. I love fandom and fanfic but this was a struggle to get through. I considered not finishing the book and I honestly should have. It was just like kinda ridiculous and not in a way that worked for me.

This is a fun one, y’all. A teenage fanfic writer gets an unexpected surprise guest while her parents are out of town. Said surprise guest believes that he’s hopelessly in love with her, which is kind of unfortunate, seeing as how he appears to be the incarnation of a fictional character and, well, she’s still hung up on her former best friend / now enemy / neighbor.

Told through dual timelines, we see how the friendship fell apart in the past, ultimately due to some believable teenage miscommunication, and how the guest’s presence in the present brings the former friends back together.

It’s a clever setup and an entertaining execution. If you’re a fan of YA novels that ask you to suspend your disbelief a bit, I recommend picking this one up.

I appreciated the queer representation in this one; there are bi, lesbian, and aro-ace characters.

And for any readers out there concerned about spice levels in YA books, this one is kissing only.

I received an advance copy of the ebook from Wednesday Books and NetGalley. All review opinions are my own.

I’m not sure there’s another author out there that writes such sweet, heartwarming, entertaining YA novels with great LGBT representation like 𝐒𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐧𝐳𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬 and this latest release is no exception. It’s a highly entertaining friends-to-enemies-to-lovers tale that comes complete with endearing characters and an amusing storyline.

The premise of this book is so fun: what if your favorite fandom character comes alive in your universe and is completely devoted to you? That's what happens to Ivy when her parents are out of town and she wakes up one day to have everything she thought she wanted. Weston is the character from the latest hot new teen superhero show and he's in love with Ivy. This is a paranormal YA story where a lot of the 'why' is hand waved away and what we get is a very charming be careful what you wish for story.

It's wild to me in some ways to have fanfiction be so normalized in fiction as someone who used to sit in their room at night and hide it from the world so I do love the way it is now being seen in fiction stories I would have loved as a kid growing up. Ivy is managing typical teen stuff including an unrequited crush on her ex-best friend Mack who gets lured back into her world as Weston wreaks havoc on Ivy's life and the rest of the world.

This was extremely charming and cute and if you like paranormal tinged teen hijinks this is for you.

Thank you so much to Wednesday Books and NetGalley for the opportunity to read an early copy in exchange for an honest review.

The main characters were so mean to each other I couldn't finish the book. Like if someone talked to me the way Ivy talks to Mack I wouldn't be friends with her either and if someone treated me as shamefully as Mack treated Ivy I would drop their ass too. I'm not sure how you recover a relationship from that and I don't really care to learn.

Sophies books are always so cute and entertaining to read! This book is truly for anyone who ever went through (or currently going through) a fanfic era. I enjoyed the previous friend to current enemies to lovers trope and thought the way they slowly started to reconnect even if a bit reluctant at first was well done and didn't feel rushed or forced. There was definitely a bit of miscommunication that caused the initial friendship breakup but I thought it was handled well and didn't mind it too much. Overall just an adorable quick read that was quite enjoyable!
Thank you to St. Martin's Press & Wednesday books for the digital arc

Ya'll I will always read all of Sophie Gonzales' books but this is the first one that missed the mark for me. I think it was very funny and quirky, but I didn't love the magical element with Ivy's fan fiction coming to life and being acted through. Honestly, that lost me. I read the whole book and there's nothing wrong with the writing, the characters, or the romance (outside of a severe case of miscommunication trope) - I just found myself hating the main concept which is, in fact, a big part of the book.

Now keep in mind if you're reading this review and thinking - that plot sounds great to me - then read the dang book! Just because I didn't love the main concept of the book doesn't mean it was a bad book or something I wouldn't recommend. It just wasn't written for me as the target audience and girl, that's okay.

This was so fun! I totally forgot the premise of this book when is rated reading it, so I was pleasantly surprised when the MC of her fave tv show came to life. I thought it was going to bring such a fun little twist to a YA contemporary. And it did. I also didn't expect the back and forth between the present and the past povs, and I'm a sucker for those!!!
It's not my favourite Sophie Gonzales, nothing beats Perfect on Paper and If This Gets Out, cuz they are perfection, but it was definitely a great read!

The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist is a fun YA with LGBTQ+ characters and an unusual twist. Teen, Ivy Winslow, has the house to herself for a week while her parents are away, and even though she was only mostly kidding when she asked about what to do if natural disasters strike while she's home alone, she never could have prepared for the result of this freak thunderstorm: she wakes up to fictional heart-throb character Weston from her favourite tv show in her bed. Not the actor, but the character, and he doesn't seem to know how he got there either...

This fun YA is sure to be a favourite with other @sgonzalesauthor fans! The dual timelines help speed up character development, which is sure to make readers love Ivy right away. There's also a fanfiction aspect that I think will also appeal to some teens who are interested. Even though I'm not a huge magic-realism/fantasy etc reader, I could still follow this one and appreciated the writing style and storyline.

Thanks to @netgalley and the publisher @stmartinspress and @wednesdaybooks for giving me the chance to read and review this fun book! Also, it's out now!

I’m a big fan of Sophie Gonzales as an author because she really has original ideas. Personally, I just didn’t connect with this book or these characters. However, it was still a very well written book and the intended age is probably late middle school to early high school. The past and present mix in each chapter was well executed and the friendships are really the main focus of the book. Some of the ending was cheesy and predictable, but that’s also what makes it good for a younger reader. For an original idea in a book, this is a really great one. 3.75⭐️, 0🌶

I really liked the story. The plot was very sweet and cute. Enjoyed the fanfic come to life. I definitely recommend if you want a fun fast pass romcom.

Thank you NetGalley for the eARC!!

I've really enjoyed all of Sophie Gonzales' other books, which made me excited to pick this up. Overall it just felt too juvenile for me, which I'm bummed about because it seems like everyone else has really enjoyed it! Maybe it just was the right book at the wrong time. I still recommend for fans of Gonzales and queer YA stories!