The Perfect Man

by Jenny Markas

Holly doesn’t believe in love, but her mom Jean is a helpless romantic searching for the perfect man. Whenever Jean gets dumped, she picks up her family and moves to a new town. Holly never used to mind the moves, but after arriving in Brooklyn and meeting the boy of her dreams, she decides she wants to stick around.
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23274...

Genres: Romance, Young Adult, Media Tie In, Contemporary, Fiction, Teen

224 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2005

Reviews

[Meisha (ALittleReader) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don't know what is rate this if i read it now. But middle school Meisha loved it. ,:)

[Paige · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this book was very well written. It was a good mixture of drama, romance, and comedy. It's about a single mother and her 2 daughters, who move constantly because of her troubles with men. As she searches for love to make her family complete, she seems to be very unlucky each time. Every time there is a heartbreak, she feels the need to move out of that town and start over new. This is very hard for her two daughters and causes them to feel resentment towards their mother. Not knowing whatelse to do, the oldest daughter plans out "the perfect man"m for her mother to date. He sends her flowers, writes her love notes, and seems perfect, but she does not know that in reality, it is just her daughter. After the mother finds out about this she is hurt,discouraged, and even a little embarassed. As she sets out to move once again, her whole life turns around as she finds out that the oldest daughter was getting all her relationship advice from her friends uncle, who is in fact her "perfect man". They continue to get to know each other, and they end up staying right where they are instead of moving for the millionth time. Everyone is very happy with the way it all turned out.

[Claudia Ingalls · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book a few years ago and I just remember loving it I feel like it is a good book for middle school age girls to read don't judge the fact that it is a little older it is a really great book

[Alicia Marie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I did not finish reading this book becuase i didnt like it. It was not written as good as it could of been. When i was reading this book it became really boring.

[Melanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

i loved this book plus you can watch the movie

[Samuel · Rating 1 out of 5]

Why am I reading this in 2019? Well, I picked it up at some half-forgotten library book sale a decade or so ago, so it was on my shelf. I have far too many books I haven't yet read sitting around my house, so I decided to try to make a dent in that pile. Why did I choose this, of all things? Look, even I'm not sure what I'm thinking a lot of the time.

So, The Perfect Man is a novelization of what was by all accounts a pretty dreadful (6% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, 27/100 on Metacritic) Hilary Duff movie from 2005. It's essentially forgotten some fourteen years on; if it's remembered at all, it's as the impetus for one of the late, great Roger Ebert's classic put-downs:

""The Perfect Man" crawls hand over bloody hand up the stony face of this plot, while we in the audience do not laugh because it is not nice to laugh at those less fortunate than ourselves, and the people in this movie are less fortunate than the people in just about any other movie I can think of, simply because they are in it."

God, I miss him.

Anyway, I've never seen the film, but I'd guess that the book is, if anything, even worse, because Hilary Duff and Heather Locklear possess some innate charisma, none of which comes through in print. The novel is utterly dreadful, with unlikable characters acting like complete idiots all the way to the extremely rushed ending. There's not an ounce of believability, wit, charm, or genuine warmth here, not a single line that seems worth quoting, except for a few sentences nicked from Shakespeare. Absolutely nothing in the book rings true in any meaningful way.

It was, however, an entertaining hate-read, and every once in a while, I enjoy one of those. It was fun to loathe this book, and so in that sense, the twenty-five cents I spent on this book ten years ago was money well spent.

I'm still putting this thing in the Little Free Library at work though. Pretty sure I'm not gonna feel the need to revisit it.

[Lindsay · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute. Also kind of weird and creepy 😂 awkward romance.

[Katherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very cute book that is also a movie. I believe the book was written first but don't go by me. If you have not seen the movie yet read the book first. It is about a troubled teen who all girls can relate to and her moms horrible dating habbits. Every time a relationship went south the family moved. It is a great book but a major chic flic so boys be warry

[Maddie G · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. It takes place modern day so you probably wont dred reading it and it wont bore you. They would istant message each other which we do alot. They also were sneaking around behind each other's backs so it's very ummmmmmmm intresting. I learned that you can't force people to like each other and you have to let the chips fall where they may even if you have the perfect plan

[Nicole23 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the perfect man because I also really enjoyed the movie so it felt like i was kinda watching the movie, its about a girl who moves whenever her mom breaks up with a guy and they move to new york and Holly the girl keeps a big secret from her mom. You will have to read the book to figure it out

[Taylor · Rating 4 out of 5]

in this book a girl trys to find her mom the perfect man. It's sweet and funn at the same time. i think this shows how what parents do afect there children,and that families can get closer because of bad things.

[Rae-Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was such a romantic, sweet story. It was absolutley believable and great. But it wasn't the most amazing book but it was good.

[Alyssa · Rating 4 out of 5]

That there is a lot of guys out there just find the right one!

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

I luv this book and have read it so many times!!!

[Natalie Rieger · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just a book based on a movie. A book to read if you can't find a book to read!

[Sofija · Rating 4 out of 5]

a great movie novelization!

[Jaelyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

thats nice what she did for her mom

[Bridget P · Rating 3 out of 5]

I absoulutley loved this book, it had romance, humor and it actully made me cry in some parts of the book. So if your looking for your next book to read I would chose this one!

[Breanna · Rating 3 out of 5]

a very good and loving story and movie

[Allison · Rating 5 out of 5]

Get the movie. It is really good!

[Catherine]

I registered a book at BookCrossing.com!
http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/13094576

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

omg this bookis for teenage girls who like need help getting a boyfriend

[Amber · Rating 5 out of 5]

Its a good book Ive read it like 3 times!!!!!!!!

[Dakota Randall]

This one was good and very surprising.

[Amy Davis · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good book. Really easy to understand. I'm gonna say more for a teenage girl but anyone older than that can read it too! I did. lol About a daughter who was constantly moving because her mom had meltdowns with relationships that ended up breaking up with her, so they were constantly on the move, but this one place they moved to a friend of one of her daughters made a comment (thinking he was talking to the daughter but was actually talking to the mom on the internet, Instant Messaging and it made the mom think about what she was doing and decided to stay to show/teach her daughters its ok to stay when things go wrong. that we do not need to run away every time something goes wrong! anyway it was a good book. (and the movie was good to. I would recommend this book!

[Amanda]

JUST LKE THE MOVIE.

[Audrey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Five stars from middle school me, not sure about current me.

[Little Seal]

I remember vividly reading this book