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A review by booksdogsandcoffee
I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This book was absolutely brilliant. Highly recommend the audio book. Per usual Natalie Naudus did an outstanding performance with this book. Her range in characters, tone and just over all performance was phenomenal and made the book that much better.
For anyone who loved Paper Towns by John Green, this book is for you. We follow Chloe who is about to be valedictorian of her small Alabama senior class, extremely capable and most importantly was recently kissed senselessly by the perfect, intolerable, princess Miss Shara Wheeler. Who within the last 24 hours has disappeared.
Chloe goes to Shara's house to confront her only to find Shara's next-door neighbor Rory also looking for Shara... because she kissed him too. The cunning and quick-witted Shara has left letters for them all over town to figure out where she is.
Realizing they need to work together to find Shara, Chloe and Rory start piecing together the clue to the next letter, which leads them to Shara's boyfriend, and ex-best friend of Rory's, Smith. Together they slowly figure out where Shara has gone, and why in the hell she left these puzzling letters for them. Does Shara have an over arching plan or is this just another ploy for the Queen bee of the school to get more attention.
I Kissed Shara Wheller is a story about being your true self when the people and place you love the most tell you not to be, and also learning to love that person.Casey captured the essence of high school to a tee. I CRIED TOO MANY TIMES! To date this is McQuiston's best work.
cw/tw
Severe warning for religious trauma because this is in the south
homophobia
emotional abuse
slight bullying
For anyone who loved Paper Towns by John Green, this book is for you. We follow Chloe who is about to be valedictorian of her small Alabama senior class, extremely capable and most importantly was recently kissed senselessly by the perfect, intolerable, princess Miss Shara Wheeler. Who within the last 24 hours has disappeared.
Chloe goes to Shara's house to confront her only to find Shara's next-door neighbor Rory also looking for Shara... because she kissed him too. The cunning and quick-witted Shara has left letters for them all over town to figure out where she is.
Realizing they need to work together to find Shara, Chloe and Rory start piecing together the clue to the next letter, which leads them to Shara's boyfriend, and ex-best friend of Rory's, Smith. Together they slowly figure out where Shara has gone, and why in the hell she left these puzzling letters for them. Does Shara have an over arching plan or is this just another ploy for the Queen bee of the school to get more attention.
I Kissed Shara Wheller is a story about being your true self when the people and place you love the most tell you not to be, and also learning to love that person.Casey captured the essence of high school to a tee. I CRIED TOO MANY TIMES! To date this is McQuiston's best work.
cw/tw
Severe warning for religious trauma because this is in the south
homophobia
emotional abuse
slight bullying
Content Warnings
Graphic: Religious bigotry and Homophobia
Minor: Bullying and Emotional abuse