Book Review | Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales

Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales

YA, LGBTQ, Romance

Wednesday Books | March 9th, 2021

4/5 Stars

Darcy Phillips:
• Can give you the solution to any of your relationship woes―for a fee.
• Uses her power for good. Most of the time.
• Really cannot stand Alexander Brougham.
• Has maybe not the best judgement when it comes to her best friend, Brooke…who is in love with someone else.
• Does not appreciate being blackmailed.

However, when Brougham catches her in the act of collecting letters from locker 89―out of which she’s been running her questionably legal, anonymous relationship advice service―that’s exactly what happens. In exchange for keeping her secret, Darcy begrudgingly agrees to become his personal dating coach―at a generous hourly rate, at least. The goal? To help him win his ex-girlfriend back.

Darcy has a good reason to keep her identity secret. If word gets out that she’s behind the locker, some things she’s not proud of will come to light, and there’s a good chance Brooke will never speak to her again.

Need relationship advice? Look no further than locker 89.

Darcy Phillips uses locker 89 to give her classmates anonymous relationship advice, until one day she gets caught and hired by Alexander Brougham to help him get his ex back in exchange for not telling her secret. Darcy agrees to become Brougham’s dating coach because she honestly can’t have her secret getting out that she’s behind locker 89. She’s done a few things she’s not proud of using the locker and she’s pretty sure she will lose her best friend if word got out. 

Darcy is a pretty awesome character, despite some of the advice she gave to swing things in her favor. Honestly, I think a lot of people would have done the same thing and definitely regretted later. I wasn’t exactly a fan of Brougham’s character in the beginning, but once I learned more about him and his life I liked him a little better. 

This book was really good and I’m glad I had a chance to read it. I actually already had the e-book arc from NetGalley when I won a physical copy in a Goodreads giveaway. It only took me a a couple days to read this book because it was so good. The pace was perfect as well. I didn’t feel like there were any places in the book where I was like get to the point. 

I highly recommend Perfect on Paper to anyone looking for a good read.

Thank you, NetGalley and Wednesday Books for this arc in exchange for an honest review.