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Showing posts with label perfect chemistry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label perfect chemistry. Show all posts

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Chain Reaction By: Simone Elkeles

The final book to the Perfect Chemistry novels... It was perfect. This one is about the last son Luis, the final Fuentes... Anyways, the book starts off with the wedding of Alex to Brittany (I died from happiness) and Luis is 15. The love interest is Nikki Cruz, a Latina girl that denies her Mexican heritage (this made me sad... I mean come on. Embrace your heritage). They hit it of... By Nikki kneeing Luis in the balls. Perfect... It then flashes two years in the future, Luis is now 17 and is living in Chicago again. Luis Fuentes is the good boy in the family, not expected to do anything stupid, he has hopes and dreams, everything is good for the youngest Fuentes. Now Nikki is very bitter, she at 15 got pregnant with your boyfriends child, whom broke up with her making her bitter, then to top it all off, looses the baby. So she's bitter and really mean... And she is Luis's love interest. Now that Luis is back very thing is going smoothly, the Latino Blood is gone because the  main guy, Chuy is in jail because of Alex. But Luis being an idiot, ends up joining the Blood stuff happens, and turns out his REAL dad was Hector Martinez!! That was a huge shock... Anyways, everything turns out ok in the end.  :3
I loved this book!! It was the perfect ending to all the Perfect Chemistry novels, and this one was a bit of a shock at the end, but absolutely perfect. Why must the Fuentes boys be so sexy !!! :'(   So this one was just amazing, Luis was just so loveable and cute, as it said in the books with was the more "innocent" one... Not really... ;)  Nikki on the other hand really REALLY annoyed me. I understand that she got pregnant at 15, lost the baby and her boyfriend on the same day, but she took her bitterness way too far. I mean she was waiting for her friend to break up with her boyfriend saying "All boys are the same... Boo hoo for me my first and ONLY boyfriend left me pregnant... Then dumped me..." She really truly annoyed me. And how she judged Luis right away, for him being Mexican, living on the poorer side of town, and being friends with some of the gang bangers, sucky... Other than that I loved the series, and this one was the best. It had more background on the Fuentes family, and showed Alex and Brittany as parents, Carlos as a military man getting ready to propose to Kiara. And the epilogue was just perfect, it showed all of them together when they were older, with their own kids. It was just adorable.

One thing I noticed, all the boys had a different thing to call their girl. Alex: mamacita. Carlos: chica. And Luis: Chava. It made me melt.. :D

Rules of Attraction By: Simone Elkeles

Now this one is about Carlos, the middle child. As a kid he always admired Alex, him being in a gang and protecting the family, being a kick-arse... All that awesomeness. So... At the end of Perfect Chemistry, Alex's family moves back to Mexico. And there Carlos gets involved with some gangs... Again!! WHY?!?! Anyways, him Mama found out and shipped him off to Boulder, Colorado, to live with Alex. Carlos is not happy, he gets in trouble and then starts living with a friend of Alex's who helped Alex when he needed the help. Dr. Richard Westford. Of course he has a daughter, Kiara, and they slowly but surely fall in love.
Again, I absolutely loved this book, I loved the Spanish they spoke, and since I speak Spanish it just made it that much hotter :3 Anyways, I really liked this book, it was very similar to Perfect Chemistry, except that Kiara wasn't uber rich... More normal, and that her parents approved of Carlos. The romance was steamy-er... If possible and I just loved it ;3 Story wise it was great, it was still very interesting with whole new twists and turns. Kiara was a more head strong girl, and was perfect for Carlos. The epilogue was absolutely PERFECT!!! It made me laugh at the irony, and I just love how Ms. Elkeles wrote about their life afterwards...

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Perfect Chemistry By: Simone Elkeles

I FREAKING LOVED THIS BOOK!!! There are no other words to describe how much I loved the book. :) The book is about a Mexican boy named Alejandro "Alex" Fuentes... Shexy :3 Anyways... He is sort of the classic Mexican boy, he is in a gang, is going to drop out of high school, lives on the wrong side of town, would do anything for his family. and all that stuff. He then makes a bet with his friends that he is going to get the rich "white" girl to sleep with him. This rich white girl is Brittany Greene. She has a "perfect life." Perfect grades, perfect boyfriend, rich, head cheerleader. Everything. But, in reality she has a hard home life. Her sister is mentally challenged and needs help. Her parents are always working, or when her mom is there all she does is criticize Brittany. In this bet, they start to fall for each other. Slowly but surely. Alex shows Brittany what he is like, his hopes and dreams. And Brittany opens up to Alex, and they fall in love.
I loved this book so much. I absolutely devoured it :) it was fast paced and detailed sort of, at times, lacked details. I sort of had to guess what the characters looked like. Also I loved that the characters were human and imperfect. I love imperfect characters, and this just made the story much more realistic. Another thing... I loved that is was in both their point of views, it told both sides of the stories and made it that much better.
"Mamacita I have already lost control..."
Alex just made me melt with happiness :3

What I found sort of annoying was how fast they moved. The book starts at the beginning of their senior year in August, and then the main event happens in October 31st. Just one month of getting to know each other and falling in love, it was very fast, but I still absolutely loved it. Also the epilogue almost killed me!! From happiness!! It was just so sweet and a perfect ending, reveling more of their future together. : )