Estoy enamorado...I'M IN LOVE (with Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles)

Methinks LOVE is like a pile of hot pancakes coated in honey, or an apple pie topped with crumbling cookies and poured in hot lemon curd. The first bite is to satiate your hunger, your appetite. Imagine you haven't tasted something as divine or haven't eaten any such thing for a long time. How fast, how rushed a pace will you devour your pancakes or pies? And that's the speed with which I gulped down the whole book in one day and a half. For your record, I'm not a fast reader. INFATUATED...ADDICTED are my current states of mind. 
How about the second bite? It's to go slow, you know. You've known how divine the pie or the pancakes tasted; you sure as hell don't wanna go fast. You want to ... relish every scrumptuous bite, feel the lingering sweetness on the tip of your tounge, inhale and savour the appetizing aroma enticing your nostrils...Yummie! It's sheer ambrosia! On my second read, I don't think I'll be infatuated or addicted anymore; but estoy enamorado...I'M IN LOVE.

Perfect Chemistry is one amazing, breath-taking, mind-blowing, awesome, fantastic book that I've come to love and adore so much. I was dubious when I first laid eyes on its cover. Looked cheesy...uh huh. Once I started reading, I was hooked. I hated putting the book down last night just so I could SLEEP. But I had to, or I'd have a groggy mind and wouldn't be able to enjoy the book as much as I wanted. 
Simone Elkeles is a brilliant author, a gifted artist. She depicted her characters, their lives in a way so real, so believable that I didn't care if it was considered truly realistic or not. I just believed  and trusted Simone to tell me her story. I tried to be attentive to every part, every aspect, every nook and cranny of her book. Yet I know I've missed out important things unwittingly because I was still reading way too fast. It couldn't be helped 'cause I was helplessly pulled by the fast pace of the story and couldn't force myself to stop. 
From what I experienced, Perfect Chemistry is a magnet. It is just as electric as the agonizingly intense chemistry between Brittany and Alex. They are two people of two different worlds as opposed as the North and South poles. They come from different background and society: one white, one dark; one American, one Mexican; one rich, one poor; one the belle of high-class society, one an outcast; one a model student, one a gangster...There cannot be anymore differences between two people. But they fell in love. It started with a foolish bet that jeopardized every structure of their expected life. 

This book has a touch of mild violence and foul language which is a necessity in gangsters' custom, we all know that, so there's no need to freak. Simone's ability to draw you into her characters' psychology is astounding. It's as if she could see through the heart of any person who comes in contact with her. That's how adept she is at observing and analyzing a character. 

*sigh* I feel restless. I feel sad. I despite the moment when I have to part with a book I love so much. Of course, I'll re-read this book for countless times in the future. But I'm still agonized. My next to-be-read books belong to Leaving Paradise series also by Simone Elkeles. I hope they will be as wonderful as Perfect Chemistry. You did a very good job, Simone. Thank you for writing. I'm pledging my deathless allegiance to you. Please accept your humble fan's adoration.