I hope so!
Has anyone ever been in that position where you like this person (as does your best friend) and you feel that your best friend (or even a friend) would be a better fit for that person you like. So, you do everything in your power to help get them with that person, all the while, you're getting closer to that person and it's starting to get harder to suppress the feelings that you have. These feeling, of course, are getting more and more intense; which is only adding insult to injury.
We are the Perfect Girl is about 17 year old Aphra Brown and her friend Bethany Newman and how when they join forces, they essentially create "the perfect girl".
Aphra and Bethany are TOTAL OPPOSITES; Aphra is loud and outspoken, witty and full of sass. Bethany is quiet and timid, hesitant and beautiful. This is how Aphra sees everything.
At the beginning of the book, I didn't believe that Bethany was someone who was rather quiet and kept to herself.
Bethany likes this guy named Greg. Greg is like the total high school junior package. He's very good looking, he's on the swim team, he's super smart and super linguistic. Bethany is very taken with Greg but the problem is that she's shy! She can't bring herself to talk to anyone. To help Bethany, Aphra tries coaching Bethany with what to say to Greg.
While Aphra is trying to help Bethany get the guy; Aphra is working on her app for her computer class, which is slowly becoming a flop. The coding for her app, isn't yielding the results that she was hoping for. In an effort to save her project (which was 35% of her grade), Aphra starts to answer the anonymous advice seeker. Before she knows it, Aphra is getting attached to this anonymous chatter and she quickly puts the pieces together and discovers that she's been chatting with Greg.
For as much as I wanted to get annoyed with Aphra's character, I knew that I couldn't. At the end of the day, she's very relatable. She's a junior in high school, she's the middle child, she's on crew, she likes the same guy her best friend does. Not only that but she doesn't think she's pretty. Her nose is the elephant in the room for her. She feels that it's nose better fit for a man.
As crazy as it sounds, Aphra's nose is a topic that comes up quite frequently in the book. Aphra's addresses that her and her sister looked identical to each other before she had her surgery. She also went on to change her hair and that really made sure they didn't look alike any longer. (I can see how that would hurt someone.) It's an issue that Aphra had such a strong reaction to, that she ends up having to see a therapist.
Adding to her dimension, she's also a funny character. I found myself laughing out loud a lot. The beginning scene in the book was hilarious. A floating "chicken cutlet" in the pool, is pretty funny.
But I'm telling you, how the beginning of the book is laid out, makes you feel like Bethany is the outspoken one and that Aphra is the introvert.
All of this being said... I give this book 4 coffee beans out of 5.
- Jillian
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