The Perfect Boy Review

The Perfect Boy By Hailey Abbott

Ciara is 16 years old, and what you can call a player, she makes out with a lot of boys all the time, but when the summer comes and she is headed from her home in Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, she doesn´t really like making out with boys that much more. Ciara´s mom and dad is divorce so her dad lives in Santa Barbara, so it is there she is spending her summer. Ciara used to spend her summer there until she was thirteen, but the last couple of years she has been bussy. When she was in Santa Barbara she used to spend her time with her friends: Heidi, Marlene and the two geeks AJ and Kevin. But now Ciara is certain that her life will be better. So she goes to Sa´nta Barbara and get a job at an cafe, where her friend Heidi works. The first night there Heidi and her go to a party, where AJ and Kevin is playing, because they have formed a rap group and they are very popular. But the minute Ciara lays eyes on AJ, she knows he is suppose to be her boyfriend and he has change so much after 3 years. So she and Kevin create a scheme, so AJ will fall for Ciara. But the only problem is that Heidi is all over AJ all the time, because a couple of month ago she got dumped by her boyfriend and is now doing the bad girl image. But Kevin and Ciara tries anyway, but non of the things they do seem to work. They go to six flags, but the only thing AJ an Heidi wants to do is to ride the wild rides. They also go kayaking, but AJ and Ciara´s kayak falls so they fall in the water and AJ acts like a total baby. They also go on a party on a boat, which ends with Ciara redvin all over her skirt, her almost kissing Kevin and AJ and Heidi dancing sexy together. Through the summer Ciara and Kevin spends a lot time together planning and doing things together. But at a beach party Ciara kissed AJ, but AJ tells her he is having mixed feelings and she storms away to the telt. Later Heidi comes crying and tells that her and AJ are over. Heidi later caughts Ciara and AJ almost kiss and she gets mad at Ciara. Ciara quickly gets over AJ, when she finds out that her really is like Marlene descriped and Ciara finds out that she has feelings for Kevin. But he has been hanging out with Marlene a lot, so maybe they are going out? But now Ciara´s world is crashing down. Heidi is mad, Ciara is mad with her parent, Ciara has no boyfriend and her summer wasen´t suppose to be like this. But can Ciara still move to Santa Barbara, get the perfect boyfriend and get her friendship back together? It all ends with Kevin and AJ´s big summer gig, And will AJ get the girl he wants?

Okay, so mixed feelings is what i have about this book. I think that the characters: Ciara and AJ is full of shit. It is hard to explain, but it has something to do with the way they were acting. And because of that, the book became bad somehow. But at the same time i really like the energi og this book, and that made it somehow one of the best books i have read by Hailey Abbott.
Okay, so the characters: Ciara: OMG, why can´t she see that eventhough he is hot, he is not boyfriend material. He pisses me of. And she does too for beign so blind. And the only reason she wants him is because he is hot, and because she thinks that because she got a boyfriend her life is on track. That is ridicules. And AJ, in my eyes he is a total joke and jerk. The only person i really liked in this book was Kevin, there was nothing wrong with him. So its a good book, fast to read and enjoyable, but I still think the book was stupid somewhere.


Grade: 4-10