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🦇 I Kissed Shara Wheeler Book Review 🦇

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

❓ #QOTD Have you ever done a scavenger hunt? What was at the end? 🦇 There's only one thing standing in Chloe Green's way of winning valedictorian: the town's favorite and Chloe's rival, Shara Wheeler. A month before graduation, Shara kisses Chloe, then does the most infuriating thing: vanishes. Chloe and two other boys Shara kissed are left with a series of cryptic notes; a scavenger hunt to find her. Can Chloe drag Shara back before graduation to beat her fair and square, or is there something else behind Shara's disappearance?

💜 Alright John Green fans. This one's for you. As always, Casey McQuiston's prose is a breath of fresh air. The narration instantly pulls you in as if you're listening to an old friend (the easily frustrated, type A kind you have to be patient with). Warning: this story WILL transport you back to high school. I can't explain it, but it felt like I was on campus, watching my fellow students live as the protagonists of their own unspoken stories, the entire time. There's so much to love in this one. For the sake of being succinct (you bookish bats know I can ramble): 💌 Chloe's amazing, artistic queer moms 💌 The whole found family of it all 💌 The EASY, natural queerness (it's never questioned, it just IS, as it tends to be in a CM book) 💌 The snippets from the burn pile before chapters (giving us glimpses into the minds of side characters) 💌 Chloe and Shara are both equally messy and chaotic 💌 The rivalry, the frustration, the angst 💌 Every side pairing 💌 All the theater kids 💌 Smith and Ash's interaction (AGH!) 💌 Rory and Smith (Just...more AGH) 💌 The reminder that side characters are going through it, too (don't forget to check on your best friends) 💌 The prose, the banter, the jokes; I literally laughed aloud, and that takes a lot

💜 This story is a reminder that there's so much more to a person than what you see on the surface. That sometimes you can romanticize someone you hardly know. And that you can unknowingly do that to yourself, too.

💙 While I was reading this, a few people told me they DNF. The second half is SO much stronger than the first, though. I think the pacing is a bit exhausting because the scavenger hunt drags a little, but it's the second half where we see SO much character development from Chloe, Shara, Rory, and Smith.

💙 Religion (the story is set in small town Alabama, at a Christian school) plays a big part in the story. While that could have led me to disconnect, it didn't. It only adds to the discussion that queerness and acceptance (in ourselves and each other) needs to be an ongoing discussion. That sometimes you need to step outside of your bubble to see the world from a new lens.

🦇 Recommended for fans of Looking for Alaska, Paper Town, She Gets the Girl, Delilah Green Doesn't Care, and Imogen, Obviously.

✨ The Vibes ✨ 💌 Sapphic Romance 💋 Queer Cast 💌 Coming-of-Age 💋 Young Adult 💌 Enemies to Lovers 💋 Small Town 💌 Slight Mystery

💬 Quotes ❝ There’s a girl with brown eyes who reminds me of the first book I ever loved. When I look at her, I feel like there might be another universe in her. I imagine her on a shelf too high for me to reach, or peeking out of someone else’s backpack, or at the end of a long wait at the library. I know there are other books that are easier to get my hands on, but none are half as good as her. Every part of her seems to have a purpose, a specific meaning, an exact reason for being how and what and where it is. ❞ ❝ What’s the point of wanting and being wanted in return if the person they want isn’t truly you? ❞ ❝ “You know… if being a guy feels like something you have to do, like it’s an obligation or something…” Ash says carefully. “Maybe think about that.” ❞ ❝ This is the real tragedy: Everything extraordinary about her is trapped behind the myth. ❞ ❝ There are enough students comfortable with the way things are to create the feeling that you’re the only one who doesn’t belong. It can be hard, when all the rules claim to be good and moral and godly, to feel like you can challenge them without admitting something bad and wrong about yourself. ❞ ❝ There are things out there for you that you haven’t even thought of yet, that you don’t even know how to think of yet. Who you are here doesn’t have to be the same as who you are out there. And if the person you feel like you have to be in this town doesn’t feel right to you, you’re allowed to leave. You’re allowed to exist. Even if it means existing somewhere else.” ❞ ❝ “And to the girl who kissed me,” she says, “I have done some of the best work of my life because of you. And I know you have done some of the best work of your life because of me. I don’t know a better way to explain what love means to two people like us.” ❞

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I wish someone would look at me the way stupid sauced Ragatha looks at her stuffs

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In light of the new episode I've got a lot of thinking to do about Puppeteer Gangle (if I wish to keep her around, that is)

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Guys will you be mad at me if I make a New Year's Eve drawing that won't be finished by New Year's Eve 🥺

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I can excuse stalking, kidnapping, manipulation, psychological torture, attempted murder, and the brainwashing and enslavement of an entire universe

But I DRAW the line at YOUTUBE CONTENT FARMING

We need to cancel Mr Puzzles

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Oh my god there's an autism creature in SMG4

All criticism retracted. Great show 10/10

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So anyway that was the cutest fucking thing I've seen in my life /ref

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Guys I feel like he might be unwell

Just a guess

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The New Year's drawing is going... very slowly...

In the meantime have a pettable Ginnie

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I'm scared

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What the heck I thought that was a plushie. Somehow this is even sadder

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I just noticed that his wand is a remote

He is too silly

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Why is he just. On the floor like that

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Wowza this looks really good

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OHHH HE'S SUCH A MANIPULATIVE PIECE OF SHIT (delighted)

Also some chilling-ass line deliveries

"Who said I was trying to be funny?"

"I didn't say you had a choice."

He blows a fuse every once in a while, but it's much rarer to hear such cold, calculating contempt from him. Not an ounce of empathy in his voice. Goddamn