The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist
A sapphic friends-to-enemies-to-lovers YA from the bestselling co-author of If This Gets Out
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Publisher Description
What happens when the fictional 'perfect guy' comes to life and is convinced you're his soulmate?
While her parents are away for the week, sixteen-year-old Ivy Winslow plans on binge-watching her favourite TV show and hanging out with her best friend, Henry. But things quickly go downhill on the very first morning, when Ivy wakes up to find Weston, the gorgeous lead character of her favourite show, in her bedroom.
And, oh yeah, he thinks that she's his soulmate.
Ivy realizes that her writing has somehow brought Weston as she's imagined him to life, and now he's living out her fanfiction dreams. But those fairytale dreams soon turn into disasters.
Mack, Ivy's best-friend-turned-enemy who lives next door, and Henry get involved and the three of them need to figure out why Weston is here and how to get rid of him.
As Ivy and Mack grow closer again, old feelings resurface and they finally face the fallout of their broken friendship, and question if they've both secretly always wanted something more . . .
The new sapphic YA friends-to-enemies-to-lovers novel from bestselling author Sophie Gonzales, with her trademark humour and heart.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bisexual 16-year-old Ivy Winslow adores Hot, Magical, and Deadly, a TV show about superpowered teen models. Feeling lonely and isolated with her parents out of town for a week, Ivy indulges in an angst-driven fanfic writing session, which somehow results in her favorite character, Weston, manifesting in Ivy's bedroom. Now she must deal with the imaginary guy of her dreams—one shaped by her own writing—hanging around and acting out the plots of her fanfic. She recruits her aromantic and asexual best friend Henry and her former bestie turned mortal enemy, lesbian Mack, to help her send Weston back to his fictional realm. Meanwhile, Ivy and Mack must navigate the ups and downs of their complicated history and potential future, especially with Ivy caught between Weston's unrelenting affections and her lingering crush on Mack. Gonzales (Never Ever Getting Back Together) adeptly treads a tricky yet insightful balance of real life and fiction to explore the sometimes messy nature of emotions, relationships, and wish fulfillment. A secondary focus on the flaws of common fanfic tropes injects additional cleverness into this good-humored rom-com. Ivy, Henry, and Weston read as white; Mack is Black. Ages 13–up.
