So, I’m curious how I Kissed Shara Wheeler will resonate with people who aren’t as familiar with the South. Of course, I still have a strong familial connection to the region. Chloe lived in California until age 14, at which point she moved to the South. I was in Louisiana until the age of five, at which point I moved to California. I didn’t grow up in the American South, but I was born there. In a way, Chloe and I lived the opposite trajectory. RELATED: Queer Tested, Teacher Approved: 23 Queer YA Genre Books You Need To Read Southern hospitality I got a kick out of how much Taco Bell these kids eat. Like McQuistion’s other books, I Kissed Shara Wheeler pays an excessive amount of detail to seemingly mundane details and pop culture references. That always takes me a little bit of time to get used to, but ultimately, I like it!

They love to write in third-person POV, present tense, which is not something you see a lot.

(- from the publisher) Quesadillas & silk scrunchiesĪuthor Casey McQuiston has a signature style, that’s for sure. And maybe - probably not, but maybe - more to Shara, too. Thrown into an unlikely alliance, chasing a ghost through parties, break-ins, puzzles, and secrets revealed on monogrammed stationery, Chloe starts to suspect there might be more to this small town than she thought. It’ll be worth it, if Chloe can drag Shara back before graduation to beat her fair and square. The three have nothing in common except Shara and the annoyingly cryptic notes she left behind, but together they must untangle Shara’s trail of clues and find her. There’s also Smith, Shara’s longtime quarterback sweetheart, and Rory, Shara’s bad boy neighbor with a crush. On a furious hunt for answers, Chloe discovers she’s not the only one Shara kissed. Her only rival: prom queen Shara Wheeler, the principal’s perfect progeny.īut a month before graduation, Shara kisses Chloe and vanishes.

The thing that’s kept her going: winning valedictorian. After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, she’s spent the past four years dodging gossipy classmates and the puritanical administration of Willowgrove Christian Academy. SynopsisĬhloe Green is so close to winning. Thank you to Wednesday Books for sending me a copy of I Kissed Shara Wheeler for an honest review.

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