Perfect Chemistry

Perfect Chemistry

by: Simone Elkeles

At Fairfield High School, on the outskirts of Chicago, everyone knows that south siders and north siders aren't exactly compatible elements. So when head cheerleader Brittany Ellis and gang member Alex Fuentes are forced to be lab partners in chemistry class, the results are bound to be explosive. But neither teen is prepared for the most surprising chemical reaction of all-love. Can they break through the stereotypes and misconceptions that threaten to keep them apart?

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My Rating *****

For me Perfect Chemistry was a great story. I think I might’ve read it three times. For me the best thing about this book is the lesson that it gives you. Your nationality or where you were brought up doesn’t determine who you are as a person. The love story between Brittany and Alex is an amazing proof of that.

The way that Simone Elkeles described the characters feels more really to me than any other fictional characters out there. In fact, they seems so real you would think that this story is based on true life. The constant reminder of the different lives those two lived before they fell in love just makes the story so much more intense. Thru out the book you are left guessing and that makes the ending much more surprising.

It definitely brings down all the stereotypes with which we have to deal every day. That points not only to what the two main characters feel for each other but also what they have to deal with in their private lives. I don’t want to spoil it too much so I won’t say much more about the plot.

There is really not much more I would like to say about the book besides that everyone should read and learn from it.