From the bestselling author of Red, White and Royal Blue and One Last Stop comes a debut YA romantic comedy - perfect for fans of Heartstopper! I Kissed Shara Wheeler is a love letter to all of us queer kids who were high schoolers in the ’90s.

A YA novel with a swoon-worthy romance readers have come to expect from their first two triumphant works.I just was not sure exactly what I felt or wanted to say, and considering I have written over 1600 reviews, this doesn’t happen to me very often anymore. Joining Chloe on this misadventure are Shara's long-time boyfriend, hunky football player, Smith, as well as Shara's bad boy neighbor, Rory, who has been crushing on the girl next door for years. If the entirety of the first 200+ pages had been left on the cutting room floor and a new book written about these characters and the stuff going on at the school (trying to only spoil the non-missing Shara shit here, not the whole thing), it could have been a great YA book.

I have to be vague here but Chloe was pretty upset and frustrated so she had a little badass moment that I thought was good book fun. Shara thought she had to be perfect because her dad was the Principal at school and she would get into trouble if they knew she was a lesbian. Okay, so when I got approved for an arc of the latest Casey McQuiston book, I was, well, shocked at first but then deliriously happy. As a mid 50’s British cisgender gay woman, I’m definitely not the target audience for this LGBTQ+ novel aimed firmly at the YA audience, but I rather enjoyed it.

As three totally different people who would never have interacted otherwise were thrown together, something beautiful emerged. Now, I had every intention of reading it pretty much straight away, but alas, I was foolish, and, even though I had lots of time, I didn’t. Because two days ago, Shara found her alone in the B Building elevator before fifth hour, pulled her in by the elbow, and kissed her until she forgot an entire semester of French.

bueno, y también porque una vez que la parte del romance (no solo el de la prota, sino también el de los demás personajes) empieza a florecer, la historia AL FIN mejora y agarra ritmo.On the weekend of her Senior Prom, Shara Wheeler kissed three people: Smith Parker, her longtime boyfriend; Rory Heron, the boy next door; and Chloe Green, her academic arch rival. There’s something about the humour in Casey McQuiston’s books that just works for me and I Kissed Shara Wheeler was no exception.

This book was one of my most anticipated of 2022, and I was beyond excited to get an ARC copy of it.i don't often think about high school with fondness, but this book reminded me that there are happy memories there too.