Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Leah on the Offbeat meets To All the Boys I've Loved Before: a bisexual girl who gives anonymous love advice to her classmates is hired by the hot guy to help him get his ex back
Her advice, spot on. Her love life, way off.
Everyone in school knows about Locker 89. Rumor is, if you're having relationship issues, you can slide a letter and $5 through its vents you'll receive an anonymous email with advice. If you're wise enough to follow that advice, your problems will be solved.
Darcy is a small-town California junior, known for being quiet, likable, and the daughter of the school's most beloved biology teacher. She's also known for being the younger sister of Ainsley Phillips, a confident trans girl who founded the school's Queer and Questioning Club (of which Darcy is now a member). But the thing Darcy isn't known for is the secret she'd go furthest to protect: she's behind Locker 89. Every day after school she collects letters from the lost and lonely, and uses her encyclopedic knowledge of relationship self-help books to personalize a solution. Ainsley is the only one who knows Darcy's secret; not even Darcy's best friend (and crush) Brooke knows.
That is until spoiled rich kid, swim team star, and all-round jerk Alexander Brougham discovers her identity. In exchange for his silence (and $20/hour) Brougham hires a reluctant Darcy to be his personal dating coach to help him win back his ex-girlfriend, Winona. Darcy will do anything to keep her identity a secret, because she's certain that if Brooke finds out it's Darcy behind the locker, Brooke'll realize what Darcy did, six months before. And then Brooke will never forgive her.
Synopsis
Perfectly wonderful." --Becky Albertalli, New York Times-bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
In Sophie Gonzales' Perfect on Paper, Leah on the Offbeat meets To All the Boys I've Loved Before: a bisexual girl who gives anonymous love advice to her classmates is hired by the hot guy to help him get his ex back
Her advice, spot on. Her love life, way off.
Everyone in school knows about Locker 89. Rumor is, if you're having relationship issues, you can slide a letter and $5 through its vents you'll receive an anonymous email with advice. If you're wise enough to follow that advice, your problems will be solved.
Darcy is a small-town California junior, known for being quiet, likable, and the daughter of the school's most beloved biology teacher. She's also known for being the younger sister of Ainsley Phillips, a confident trans girl who founded the school's Queer and Questioning Club (of which Darcy is now a member). But the thing Darcy isn't known for is the secret she'd go furthest to protect: she's behind Locker 89. Every day after school she collects letters from the lost and lonely, and uses her encyclopedic knowledge of relationship self-help books to personalize a solution. Ainsley is the only one who knows Darcy's secret; not even Darcy's best friend (and crush) Brooke knows.
That is until spoiled rich kid, swim team star, and all-round jerk Alexander Brougham discovers her identity. In exchange for his silence (and $20/hour) Brougham hires a reluctant Darcy to be his personal dating coach to help him win back his ex-girlfriend, Winona. Darcy will do anything to keep her identity a secret, because she's certain that if Brooke finds out it's Darcy behind the locker, Brooke'll realize what Darcy did, six months before. And then Brooke will never forgive her.
Synopsis
"Perfectly wonderful." --Becky Albertalli, New York Times-bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
"An electrifying love story." --Booklist
In Sophie Gonzales' Perfect on Paper, Leah on the Offbeat meets To All the Boys I've Loved Before: a bisexual girl who gives anonymous love advice to her classmates is hired by the hot guy to help him get his ex back
Her advice, spot on. Her love life, way off.
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.
Okay, so all she has to do is help an entitled, bratty, (annoyingly hot) guy win over a girl who's already fallen for him once? What could go wrong?
Synopsis
"Perfectly wonderful." --Becky Albertalli, New York Times-bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
"An electrifying love story." --Booklist
FROM NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY-BESTSELLING AND INDIE NEXT PICK AUTHOR Sophie Gonzales comes Perfect on Paper: Leah on the Offbeat meets To All the Boys I've Loved Before in this YA romcom, where a bisexual girl who gives anonymous love advice to her classmates is hired by the hot guy to help him get his ex back
Her advice, spot on. Her love life, way off.
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.
Okay, so all she has to do is help an entitled, bratty, (annoyingly hot) guy win over a girl who's already fallen for him once? What could go wrong?