
The drawback, her mom picks her nemesis and ex-best friend to be her experimental ‘datee.’ Pat decides Winnie must start practice-dating before she too is a lost cause. When Winnie’s mother finds that Bunny and Ari are making excuses for not exploring an MRS degree first thing in college because they couldn’t date in high school, Dr. Pat is the kind of mother that you might not know where you stand with, but she would be the first to stand in front of a train for you. I found myself smiling at her dad with every new research article he read and applied. Bunny and Ari are the best sorts of sisters, supportive and protective. Mat is just the sort of book boyfriend you want for your sister, and I say that as a Bunny.Īnother thing I loved about this book, Pintip Dunn did an incredible job building Winnie’s family. These two are one of my favorite YA pairs of 2020. Like Alice and Bandit, Winnie and Mat are a contentious pair, and Winnie, of course, thinks Mat is the entire problem when the actual issue is Winnie’s arrogance.

This book is a fantastic introduction to her books if you’ve not read her before!ĭating Makes Perfect characters Winnie and Mat remind me of Alice and Bandit from Malice, but this story has zero sci-fi elements.

If there is one thing, Pintip Dunn gets its conveying teen temptation in a repressed and traditional Asian community, and I always appreciate the diversity of her characters. I’m a huge Pintip Dunn fan, and it doesn’t matter if she’s writing sci-fi or contemporary YA I adore the stories she writes.
