You Were Made For Me by Jenna Guillaume (E Arc Review)

Hi! This book is coming out in Paperback, and I saw it on Edelweiss + a few months ago. I read it and so I wanted to put out my review. I downloaded this book for free in exchange for an honest review.

 

Title: You Were Made For Me

Author:  Jenna Guillaume

Genre: YA, Contemporary, Retelling

Edition Read: EARC

Expected Publication: April 1^st 2021 by Peachtree Publishing Company

Pages 336

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Rating: **** (4 stars)

Overview

I didn’t know what this book was before I downloaded it. The book looked like a cute romcom, and I really love that genre. What I didn’t know was that this was a feminist retelling of the movie Weird Science, so I can’t speak on how accurate this book is to that movie. I decided to have a new review system, where I discuss what this book did to earn a star in the rating from me. 

Plot

I’m giving the plot of this book a star because it was different. The plot of the story follows two girls who make a boy, and the boy ends up dating one of the girls. As the story progresses, we see more themes of love and finding out what you really want in life, and in a relationship. The story also follows the neighbor of one of the girls who make Guy, and you start to see their relationship bloom as the story progresses.  I would say that the story has a happy ending because there is a sweet romance at the end. 

Characters

The characters were what kept me reading this. The principal character Kate, one of the girls who made Guy, was super into art and painting, and I loved seeing her passion for art. Libby, the other girl who made guy, was such a good friend because she stuck by Kate when others at their school were making fun of Kate, and not believing she had a boyfriend.  Theo was so sweet, part of the story sees Theo and Guy hanging out at his house because he was staying there, so Kate’s parents wouldn’t find out about Guy. Guy himself was a fun character because he knew little, so you saw teenagers teaching him what it is like to be a teenager. They made him to love Kate, but while they were dating, you could tell how much he loved Kate, and how much he cared about her. This book had supporting characters that I wish we had spent more time with, like Alex. Alex was a guy who worked with Kate, and he was Theo’s friend. I enjoyed getting to know him in the scenes he was in, but I wish that we had seen him more across the book. 

Writing 

The writing in this book was fine, but I still think that it deserved a star. The way the story is written made sense for the way the story was told. The author is from Australia, and the setting of this story was England, so it was nice to see how other countries use certain words. There wasn’t anything I would change about the writing in this story.  

Enjoyment 

My last star is for enjoyment. I had fun reading this, and I’m glad that I read it. Most of the story was light and fun, which is what I’m looking for when I read a book of this genre. There were some elements that were serious, but you need the balance of the two to have the story be told. At the core, this is a YA Contemporary story, and so you won’t find much Sci-Fi here if that’s what you’re looking for. 

Pace

The pace was the reason this was not a five-star read. At times, I thought the pace was clunky, and that there were things that could have been done differently. I wanted some parts to be talk about more, and some that I thought could have been talked about less.