Faking Perfect

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One of my favorite scenes was at prom, of course. That scene had so much character and realization and drama it hurt me emotionally and physically. Up to that point, Ben had been telling Lexi to limit her time spent with Nolan, Lexi's neighbor and childhood best friend. Lexi and Nolan consider themselves unofficial siblings, but Ben is still unconvinced. At the prom after-party, when Lexi's secret about Tyler is exposed, she has nowhere to hide. Her entire senior class now knows her secret she's been hiding since September. She have a no string attached relationship with Tyler and as said in the description she actually use Tyler for sex and she have also set rule for him to follow. I also hated that the author didn't talk much about Tyler in the book, I was actually waiting for him to appear and as of now when I actually have read the book, Tyler for me is still a mystery.

Based on the blurb for this book, I was anticipating a lot more typical high school drama and definitely more boy drama. Neither of those things were really present. This book was weird for me because it totally wasn't what I expected. When Lexi Shaw seduced Oakfield High’s resident bad boy Tyler Flynn at the beginning of senior year, he seemed perfectly okay with her rules: Ella who when we first meet her has just managed to lose her home, job and car all on the same day, and sounds like she may be rather flaky, knows she has been handed a lifeline even if its unusual and seeing how she copes as she attempts to be the best version of her sister that she can be is so so amusing.

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Like I said earlier, the heroine Lexi Shaw was trying hard to hide the parts of her life which was not so perfect, that wasn't the whole plot of the book. She had deeper problems, like having a mother who acts younger than you and finding that your father whom you thought dead wasn't dead at all. Add in the fact that her friends-with-benefits Tyler Flynn starts having feelings for her, this book turned out into something that doesn't seem shallow to me. Marco’s body tells me that he’s no stranger to the gym. My body tells people that the only working out I do is what my pizza is going to cost me with my ‘20 percent off’ code. Ella is a young woman who is still trying to find her groove in this life. She has just lose her latest job and her apartment after a fire broke out in her living room when she gets a phone call from her grounded twin sister, Emma, who asks her to take her place for a few weeks. So Ella without anything to lose accepts and try to live her sister's life at the best she can, even if she soon finds out how hard it is to care about a teen girl, a kid and an husband without any experience. Will Ella keep her true identity a secret? Or will Emma regret to have asked her for a favour? I really felt sad reading about all of Lexi's efforts to become perfect and to chase perfection with any cost.

I'm a huge fan of Portia MacIntosh's books and once again she has written an absolute Gem of a Book! Jughead's grandfather could also have something to do with the plot too, considering he was one of the previous Baxter Brothers ghostwriters. OG Forsythe Jones will be introduced in the mid-season finale. Coincidentally, that's when show-runner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has hinted that we'll learn more about what happened during the Spring Break flash forward in that episode. The only problem was the underdevelopment of Tyler and Lexi's relationship. They spent half of the book away from one another and I felt like something was missing when he confessed he liked her at the end.Overall, FAKING PERFECT is far from being perfect but it does have its merits and I highly enjoyed it. It would be really wrong of me not to recommend it.