A review by mothmans_mum
I Kissed a Girl by Jennet Alexander

4.25

My favourite things about this book were the setting (the set of a B movie) and that the characters were Jewish.

The drawbacks were the contrived plot complications, and the fact that

Noa never properly dealt with and apologised for her snooty opinions, and Lilah never opened up properly about her insecurities relating to her appearance. I wanted Noa to properly tell Lilah about how she finds her smart etc. I’m glad she said she only kept complementing Lilah’s appearance because she couldn’t express her full feelings, and I’m glad she started enjoying romance novels, but they needed to have a conversation about Lila’s feelings about pageants, that she enjoyed them but also they instilled body image issues in her. We also know that Lilah read Radcliffe Hall, but did she genuinely like reading that or was it to impress Noa and subtly come out to her? I need to know! And lastly, and most annoyingly, they never had a conversation about candy floss! Lilah never found out what that meant, and Noa never properly confronted the fact that she is into femmes. That would be so important to their relationship and their individual identities! It’s so frustrating!

But overall I really liked it.