Publisher: Walker Books for Young Readers
Age Group: Young Adult
Pages: 336
Source: Bought
Leaving his mother and little brother behind in rural Mexico, Carlos Fuentos goes to Colorado, America to live with his brother Alex (the main character in Perfect Chemistry, book 1 in the series). ALex liveS in a student apartment with Brittany, and it doesn't seems like he can stay there for a long time. At his new high school, he gets a peer guide, Kiara Westford.
Carlos Fuentes doesn't want any part of the life his older brother, Alex, has laid out for him in Boulder, Colorado. He wants to keep living on the edge, and carve his own path—just like Alex did. Unfortunately, his ties to a Mexican gang aren't easy to break, and he soon finds himself being set up by a drug lord.
When Alex arranges for Carlos to live with his former professor and his family to keep him from being sent to jail, Carlos feels completely out of place. He's even more thrown by his strong feelings for the professor's daughter, Kiara, who is nothing like the girls he's usually drawn to. But Carlos and Kiara soon discover that in matters of the heart, the rules of attraction overpower the social differences that conspire to keep them apart.
As the danger grows for Carlos, he's shocked to discover that it's this seemingly All-American family who can save him. But is he willing to endanger their safety for a chance at the kind of life he's never even dreamed possible?
Every time I pick up a new Simone Elkeles book, I love it from the first to the last page, and altough her books are always the best, every new book is just better than the previous, her books are always a winner! I loved the romance between Carlos and Kiara, which wasn't there from the start but kept growing during the book. An amazing page turner every teen, boy or girl, must have read!
