Queen B’s Decree: The Perfect Guy Doesn’t Exist starts out pretty cute and funny. Ivy had a break-up with her best friend/crush last year, and has been deeply into her fandom. Her favorite show is H-MAD, a show about magical teenagers, and she’s been writing fan fiction. One night after her parents are gone on a trip….her favorite character appears in bed with her.
With the help of her new best friend Henry, and her old best friend-turned-nemesis Mack, they try to manage the situation and figure out why this fake, magical character has appeared.
For about three-fourths of the story, it was funny and light-hearted, going back and forth between the present and the past. And then….at the climax, nothing happens? Ivy had a deep, heavy discussion with her fan fiction character, Weston, all about her feelings for Mack. But then she and Mack never really discuss what went on with them. It’s a two sentence “I like you,” and “I like you too” then the end.
Overall, I loved the LGBTQ representation, and I’m a fan fiction reader for life, but the one felt like the author lost steam and just quickly wrapped it up.
Book: The Perfect Guy Doesn’t Exist by Sophie Gonzales
Series: standalone
Genre: YA
Hotness: no salsa
Plot Devices/Tropes: friends-to-enemies-to-lovers