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. The author definitely knows how to write romance.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.

'Elkeles pens plenty of tasteful, hot scenes…that keep the pages turning. 'Captures that rush of feelings associated with first love' It is a book that you should drop everything for.the most romantic love story that I have ever read.' ' Perfect Chemistry is a novel to obsess about. 'Compelling and addictive… I've still got that 'wow' feeling you get after reading a great book' W But the closer Alex and Brittany get to each other the more they realise that sometimes appearances can be deceptive and that you have to look beneath the surface to discover the truth. So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. Forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, Brittany finds herself having to protect everything she's worked so hard for – her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend and, most importantly, the secret that her home life is anything but perfect.Īlex is a bad boy and he knows it. When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created 'perfect' life is about to unravel before her eyes. First in the gripping PERFECT CHEMISTRY series, this is the next addictive read for fans of Anna Todd's AFTER series, and Caroline Kepnes's YOU. From the New York Times bestselling author Simone Elkeles comes an epic love story like no other.

A perfect chemistry series