The Perfectly Imperfect Match by Julie Hammerle - Review
Grades:
Overall – B Plot – B Character Development – B Character Romance – A Cover – B
I received a copy of The Perfectly Imperfect Match from Netgalley in exchange for this honest review. Thank you Entangled, Kendra C. Highley, and Netgalley for this opportunity!
Lucy and Dylan each have a plan and those plans definitely don’t include white hot chemistry bubbling up between them. Dylan has big league dreams and doesn’t think he should have to bother with college. He’d rather be drafted right into the minors. And Lucy loves her cross stitching and has her life mapped out – college, business degree, open a store just like the one her mom runs so she can sell her crafts.
Of course, nothing can go as planned for our main characters or we wouldn’t have a book. We follow along as Dylan and Lucy fight their attraction, and then give in to it, only to have a bad tryout threaten to destroy everything they’ve built together.
I did like this book. It was a great addition to the Suttonville Sentinels series. And I liked that Dylan got to have his own romance in this book after striking out in Swinging At Love. Lucy is a great character who is quirky enough to be awesome but not annoying, which is a difficult thing to master I think.
The subplot with the chickens honestly broke my heart, and I don’t want to spoil it because it was beautiful, but just know that chickens are awesome and I am all for fighting for them.
What I didn’t like about this book was the ending. Not only was it way too neat and tidy for my liking, but it just didn’t make sense. I’m going to spoil it for you so skip to the next paragraph if you don’t want to be spoiled: Dylan and Lucy go to college together. For real? No! I like that Dylan decides to go to college because as much as I love baseball players, going straight into the minors from high school is hard and dangerous. Better to hone your craft first. The problem is that Lucy knew where she wanted to go and changed her mind so she could be with Dylan, her boyfriend of a few months. Ugh. Yes, at least Lucy found her major at Dylan’s school, but honestly I was so frustrated that it almost ruined the book for me. But it didn’t, because aside from the unfortunate ending, Dylan and Lucy were really great characters that made me love them.
I think if you love baseball (I know I do) and are looking for a nice spring/summer read, The Perfectly Imperfect Match is a good choice (side note: I don’t grade titles but if I did, this one would get an F).
Suggested Reading: Swinging at Love by Kendra C. Highley. It’s technically book 2 in the series (all of the books are standalones but do share characters), but I didn’t really like the first one and the cover of this one is SO CUTE.
