Download The Kissing Booth, by Beth Reekles
Merely hook up to the web to get this book The Kissing Booth, By Beth Reekles This is why we suggest you to utilize and use the established innovation. Checking out book doesn't mean to bring the printed The Kissing Booth, By Beth Reekles Created modern technology has allowed you to review just the soft data of the book The Kissing Booth, By Beth Reekles It is same. You might not need to go as well as obtain conventionally in searching guide The Kissing Booth, By Beth Reekles You may not have adequate time to spend, may you? This is why we offer you the very best method to get the book The Kissing Booth, By Beth Reekles currently!
The Kissing Booth, by Beth Reekles
Download The Kissing Booth, by Beth Reekles
Learn the technique of doing something from many resources. One of them is this book qualify The Kissing Booth, By Beth Reekles It is an effectively known publication The Kissing Booth, By Beth Reekles that can be recommendation to review currently. This suggested book is among the all great The Kissing Booth, By Beth Reekles compilations that are in this website. You will certainly additionally discover various other title and also motifs from different writers to browse right here.
The benefits to consider reviewing guides The Kissing Booth, By Beth Reekles are concerning improve your life quality. The life top quality will not only about the amount of knowledge you will gain. Also you read the fun or enjoyable e-books, it will certainly help you to have boosting life high quality. Feeling fun will certainly lead you to do something flawlessly. Additionally, guide The Kissing Booth, By Beth Reekles will certainly give you the session to take as a great factor to do something. You might not be pointless when reviewing this e-book The Kissing Booth, By Beth Reekles
Don't bother if you do not have adequate time to head to guide store and hunt for the preferred e-book to read. Nowadays, the on the internet publication The Kissing Booth, By Beth Reekles is pertaining to offer ease of checking out habit. You could not have to go outside to browse guide The Kissing Booth, By Beth Reekles Searching and also downloading and install the e-book entitle The Kissing Booth, By Beth Reekles in this post will provide you much better remedy. Yeah, on-line e-book The Kissing Booth, By Beth Reekles is a type of electronic book that you can obtain in the link download provided.
Why should be this on-line e-book The Kissing Booth, By Beth Reekles You might not need to go someplace to review the books. You can review this book The Kissing Booth, By Beth Reekles each time and every where you desire. Also it is in our spare time or feeling bored of the jobs in the office, this corrects for you. Obtain this The Kissing Booth, By Beth Reekles today as well as be the quickest person which completes reading this publication The Kissing Booth, By Beth Reekles
A cool, sexy romance novel written by seventeen-year-old British sensation Beth Reekles.
Meet Rochelle “Elle” Evans: pretty, popular—and never been kissed. Meet Noah Flynn: badass, volatile—and a total player.
When Elle decides to run a kissing booth at her school's Spring Carnival, she locks lips with Noah and her life is turned upside down. Her head says to keep away, but her heart wants to draw closer. This romance seems far from a fairy tale.
Is Elle headed for heartbreak or will she get her happily ever after?
- Sales Rank: #428821 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-04-09
- Released on: 2013-04-09
- Format: Kindle eBook
From School Library Journal
Gr 8 Up-Sixteen-year-old Elle is just one of the guys, more a best friend than a girlfriend. She's about to experience her first kiss with the most unlikely of partners, bad boy Noah Flynn, who just happens to be the hottest guy in school and the brother of Elle's best friend, Lee. Just one kiss can send Elle down a path of teenage bliss or turn her world upside down and threaten her relationship with Lee. Cynthia Holloway takes on the first-person narration of the British teenage author's predictable romance novel (Ember, 2013). She voices Elle appropriately, but listeners may cringe as she deepens her voice for Lee and the other male teenagers. The story drags on past an obvious conclusion. For libraries where chick lit and romance are popular.-Betsy Davison, Cortland Free Library, NYα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
From Booklist
Elle, the classic girl next door, actually lives a 10-minute walk away from her best friend Lee’s house. Together they plan a student council–sponsored kissing booth for the upcoming school fair. There’s nothing romantic about her relationship with Lee, and it’s just as well, because his older brother, Noah, is hot stuff. Everyone knows it, and try as Elle might to get Noah to participate in the booth, he refuses. Little does she know, he won’t do it because the only kisses he wants to receive are from her. Seventeen-year-old debut author Reekles makes quick work of getting her couple together, and the rest is all blistering smooches and sneaking around. Some aspects of this romance are problematic. The heroine is fully aware of the hero’s hotheaded nature, and regards his possessive-to-the-point-of-violent behavior (though never toward her, we are repeatedly assured) as a sexy quirk of his personality. However, this work is nothing if not a frilly flight of fancy, coated with the finest in cavity-inducing sugar. Pucker up. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Teenage author? Discovered among the self-published ranks? It’s the kind of story the media drools over, which means sky-high awareness and a full-court press. Grades 9-12. --Courtney Jones
Review
".the main reason few would guess at the fact Reekles was even younger than her teenage heroine is that her writing is so slick. The pace is deftly controlled, the chapters end on cliff-hangers, she is a generous entertainer. You might guess The Kissing Booth was written by a highly experienced American scriptwriter, manipulating every online platform with an eye for the movie deal." -- Helen Rumblelow T2
Most helpful customer reviews
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
An OK read
By Evie Seo
The Kissing Booth is a quick and quite enjoyable summer read that kept me well entertained for a couple of days. I wouldn't call it memorable or game-changing, but it was definitely cute and sunny, and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys teen angst, secret love affairs and overly dramatic female characters.
This book reminded me a lot of Beautiful Disaster by Jaime McGuire and I think anyone who is looking for a more YA-friendly version of that book (tamer, more cutesy) will definitely enjoy The Kissing Booth. Like Beautiful Disaster, this book has a cocky and controlling guy, a sweet and naive girl (who, of course, doesn't realize how hot she actually is), and lots and lots of drama. There's passion, kissing, fooling around and even some sex. There's sneaking around, lying, breaking up and reconciling. And a whole lot of acting stupid and irrational. The only difference is that The Kissing Booth has a better ending that redeems some of that stupid and irrational stuff that goes down in the second half of the book, leaving the reader slightly more satisfied (still pretty frustrated, though).
Personally, I wasn't a fan of Beautiful Disaster at all and, sadly, there were things about The Kissing Booth that annoyed me just as much. For instance, there is nothing I hate more than cocky, controlling, border-line abusive love-interests, and while Noah isn't as horrible as Travis, he is still far from perfect. Overprotective, stubborn, jealous and possessive, Noah frequently behave in a way that made me cringe and shake my head in disgust. He tells Rochelle what she should wear and who she should or shouldn't talk to, and makes sure that no other boy ever flirts with her or even looks at her in a *funny* way (as in: expressing interest). He scares off potential boyfriends and throws punches whenever someone makes an inappropriate joke - even when Rochelle herself is provoking and then enjoying the jokes. The weirdest thing is, he's been doing all that for years before they even got together (a silent stalker sneaking around in the shadows?). I couldn't stand him. To me, he was spoiled, selfish and childish, and I hated how he would use the same excuse over and over again to rationalize his erratic behaviour ("I'm only looking out for you").
Rochelle frustrated me even more. Her behaviour didn't make much sense either. She would go on insisting that they keep their relationship secret from everyone (including her best friend and Noah's brother, Lee), and when the truth finally came out, she turned the situation around and blamed Noah for everything. She was all innocent and goody-goody, but didn't mind sneaking around with Noah and having sex before making their relationship known to the public.
The ending itself caught me by surprise. I expected Noah and Rochelle to finally get together and make it official, and then adjust their plans for the future accordingly. I swear, I thought these two would make a decision to go to the same school or do something even more drastic, just to stay together. Instead, what we got was a sort of a "whatever will be, will be" ending. Both of them decided to put their education/career first (which is the mature thing to do), and they agreed to wait and see where life will take them. Considering everything that happened prior to that, I must say I was very surprised, but kind of happy with that ending. It was a realistic ending with a good message, and I appreciated that.
All things considered, The Kissing Booth was a good book. Emotionally engaging, at times quite heart-pounding and definitely entertaining. A great summer read to enjoy on the beach, with a glass of ice tea on the side. If you're looking for something fun and hot, but not necessarily intellectually stimulating or demanding, this might be the book for you. If, however, you're bothered by unrealistically depicted relationships, weirdly motivated behaviours and superficial, cliched characters, it might be best to stir clear off it.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Deeply Disturbing Fantasies
By Mary-Celeste Lewis Ricks
Before you assume I'm a prude for saying what I'm about to say, let me preface. I adore romance. Jane Austen, regency, guilty-pleasure Meg Cabot novels, and even the quirkier ones. I have been in many relationships, and I am probably the first person my friends come to when they need relationship advice. I also have edited novels now due for publication, and consider the romantic genre my specialty. The plot of the romantic genre deals with feelings. Can we all agree on that?
The Kissing Booth had no feelings, and I could really spit nails about the fact that Miss Reekles portrayed, as another reviewer said, a mindset of "do whatever you want with none of the consequences." For starters, The Kissing Booth discusses underage sex and drinking. Well, with the "anything goes" non-censorship policy of YA literature today, I shouldn't be freaking out about that, right? There are plenty of books that include teen drinking and underage sex that I made it through just fine, and even respected, even though that's really not my favorite thing. The difference? Miss Reekles has clearly NEVER experienced what she describes. It is a scientific fact that there are LOTS of hormones, emotions, and physical repercussions associated with having sex, particularly for the first time, and particularly as a young person. NONE of these were represented. In fact, without even a single mention of a condom up to that point, the only thing her father even says to her after he finds out she has had (unprotected!) sex with her not-even-boyfriend is more or less, "try not to get knocked up, honey." And then he proceeds to buy her a car. YUP. That's a healthy set of morals for a kid to grow up with--"I'm gonna go ahead and be promiscuous so I can end up with STDs, psychological confusion, possible depression and maybe a baby, because my daddy will love and accept me and buy me a car and support me for the rest of my life and the life of my equally messed-up child." Yes, I have morals, and I don't believe in premarital sex at all (it's not quite as romantic as waiting, after all), but that has nothing to do with my objection to the completely unrealistic depiction of a very serious act. She might as well have shoplifted or started selling cocaine with NO negative side effects whatsoever (and if you read Jack Gantos's Hole in my Life, you'll know you can't escape unscathed) and skipped in the sunshine after punching someone in the face or dragging a knife across her own skin. There are just some things in life that have consequences. It's called "suspension of disbelief," and my disbelief wasn't suspended when a girl's first time having sex was not even COMMENTED on. At all. I'm not even going to TOUCH on the lack of character development there.
And from a romantic perspective, she failed miserably for a whole slew of reasons. A) According to pretty much all romance editors, including sex in a book won't fix/improve/make your readers relate to a relationship that is just NOT THERE. Poor relationship development. B) The only thing she's afraid of is NOT underage pregnancy, STDs, being arrested, or any number of other reasonable concerns--it's falling in love and being emotionally vulnerable. Um . . . hello? Romance is NOT romance unless your character is emotionally vulnerable!! The whole reason it's exciting in the first place is the fact that relationships take FAITH in order to function. It doesn't matter how well you "know" a person before you marry them. Once you marry them, you've just got to trust that your love is strong enough to make it through whatever life throws at you. THAT is what romance is. Faith. Trust. In spite of emotional vulnerability.
I really could go on forever, but I found the book unpleasant to read, unromantic, and completely free of reasonable, realistic consequences, even of only the emotional variety.
Don't even get me started on the fact that this British girl is trying to write about people in a community she is not remotely familiar with. That didn't help things. She should stick to what she actually knows.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
An Insanely Long Book For A Shallow Plot
By Ashley Nestler
I thought this book would be interesting because it was written by someone so young and it was originally on Wattpad, but I was terribly disappointed. The plot was very common, we have read it and seen it so many times before. The girl likes her best friend's boyfriend, they hook up, she feels terrible about it and on and on and on. What particularly upset me was how the girl's father was COMPLETELY okay with her staying over at her friend's house and drinking and partying without a second thought. This "casual" relationship was way too emphasized, and it also frustrated me that her friend took a day to be angry at her fro sleeping with his brother and then he was fine. The rest of the 400 or so pages were just about this abusive relationship and it was entirely unrealistic. All of the fights that she and Noah had were usually over him not liking what she wore or what she did with guys, and this was obviously an abusive act. It made me mad that this book has gotten so popular when its story is entirely over done and has little substance.
I do not recommend this book at all. Don't waste your money.
The Kissing Booth, by Beth Reekles PDF
The Kissing Booth, by Beth Reekles EPub
The Kissing Booth, by Beth Reekles Doc
The Kissing Booth, by Beth Reekles iBooks
The Kissing Booth, by Beth Reekles rtf
The Kissing Booth, by Beth Reekles Mobipocket
The Kissing Booth, by Beth Reekles Kindle
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar