We've all somewhere down the line heard of 'Perfect Chemistry' by Simone Elkeles but I bet a lot of you haven't heard of 'Rules of Attraction,' at least you who don't have goodreads or what not. I must admit when I first read Perfect Chemistry, I myself wasn't involved in the book world as much as I am today and it took me a few months before I heard there was more books in this series.
We all love the bad boy meets good girl, fall in love, can't be together dilemma. It's in us to love that typical story-line but the way Simone Elkeles does it, is downright beautiful.
Last night as I lay in my dark room I decided I needed a complete and utter typical romance book and that is exactly what I found.
“I'm in deep shit Alex, 'cause I think I'd like nothin' better than to wake up with her every mornin'.”
Oh how we love you Carlos, brother of the beautiful Alex Fuentos. Carlos has been sent over from Mexico where himself, his mother and his baby brother Luis moved over two years ago when Alex got shot trying to escape the Latino Blood gang. He has started a new school and is crashing on a blow up bed on Alex's dorm floor. He wants nothing more than to find some hot chicas and get high but it's all so much more complicated than that for the drool-worthy Carlos.
Kiera, a shy girl that has a secret talent for fixing cars. Alex has been helping her out on her vintage car, getting her parts for cheap so she can fix it up. He asks Kiera to show Carlos around the school and she kindly says she will. She doesn't expect what she gets though, he's rude, self-absorbed and out-right mean to her at the beginning but by the end he's sad she won't be showing him to his classes day after day. Kiera and her family end up being there for Carlos when things start to get messy in his life and soon stuff happens that neither of them thought ever would.
“Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!”
Now before I talk about how much I need a relationship like the one Kiera and Carlos found in eachother I just have to bring up Tuck. Tuck, Tuck, Tuck Oh that boy made me laugh out loud a few times in this book. His cheeky ways of speaking to Carlos and his straight out words made me smile. He wasn't afraid of Carlos not like some would be and he also wasn't afraid to say what was on his mind. The friendship he and Kiera had was one anybody in their right mind would love to have. In some ways for me Tuck made the book, because he gave it that humour and honesty in which it needed.
I loved Carlos and Kiera together. Their scenes always made me so jealous, god if only us girls could find a boy like that in real life wouldn't we all be over the moon? The way Carlos could never stop thinking about her made me love him more and how Kiera got nervous around him yet could give him cheek right back that just made their relationship for me.
This book gets 4 out of 5 stars. It's get four for everything I loved about it Carlos, Kiera, Tuck, the humour, the friendship, the spanish, the love, the family unit everything that was beautiful and drew you in. It loses a star I think for the writing at times wasn't up to scratch. I'm a fussy girl when it comes to writing but this book should be read by all those girls/boys who just love a good romance!
“There's a point when you have to stop fightin' the whole world.”
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