But feelings appear and Alex starts to second guess the bet but also the relationship when Brittany begins to open up about her life introducing him to her deepest secret, but doubt returns once more knowing that the gang lifestyle that had claimed his father's life is bound to claim his also. Alex and his friends make a bet that Alex has to have sex with Brittany before Thanksgiving in order to boost Alex's bad boy reputation and to ruin Brittany's picture perfect one. Brittany knows that Alex and his reputation are threatening everything she has worked so hard to keep in place such as her perfect reputation, her relationship with her popular boyfriend Colin (the star captain of the football team) and her secret home life that no one, not even her best friends, must find out about. Their senior year at high school starts and Brittany and Alex are assigned to each other as lab partners in chemistry at their school, Fairfield High. The author has stated that she would like to continue writing books in the Perfect Chemistry series.īrittany Ellis has worked extremely hard to put on a picture perfect image to hide her horrible home life and Alex Fuentes' dangerous gang ties through friends, family and he himself throughout his life have caused him nothing but chaos. They must triumph over gang fights, the mystery surrounding the Fuentes' murder of their father and the world's outlook on their relationship. Elkeles takes you into the streets of Chicago where love must overcome all for two teenagers to be together. The book was followed by two sequels centered on the following Fuentes brothers, Carlos and Luis.
Simone Elkeles has revealed in many interviews that she admits to writing Young Adult fiction Romance novels and with the Perfect Chemistry series she had to do large amounts of research to understand the cultural background of Alex's Mexican heritage. The book was read and reviewed worldwide. The main characters of the story Brittany Ellis, a white uptown teenager, and Alejandro "Alex" Fuentes, a lower class teenager of Mexican heritage must overcome Brittany's troubled home life and Alex's gang ties to have their own happily ever after. Perfect Chemistry is a part of the Young Adult genre because of the steamy high school romance Elkeles portrays in the novel. Perfect Chemistry is the first novel in the trilogy written by author Simone Elkeles and published by Walker Books for Young Readers in 2009 and also made it on The New York Times Best Seller list.
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