I Kissed Shara Wheeler

audio cd

Published May 3, 2022 by Macmillan Young Listeners.

ISBN:
978-1-250-85417-9
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5 stars (16 reviews)

5 editions

How To Torture Your Nemesis

5 stars

Oh there are so many things I loved in this one. First of all, this huge fucking scavenger hunt - Shara organized her disappearance so well, she must truly be a genius. All to distract her nemesis, Chloe, who's certainly not obsessed with Shara, but still can't stop trying to find her.

On and on they try to win the upper hand on who wins valedictorian and who makes whom obsessed with them, it's kind of kinky, but also just mean. They're assholes and they're angels. They're bitches and they're hell fucking amazing. They deserve each other.

But this is not just about Chloe and Shara. On this journey, you discover so many side characters, where you first think "probably a douchebag", but then this football quarterback turns out gay and non-binary, another one just loves kissing absolutely everybody but never thought about having a queer identity. Heck, they're all …

Entertaining

3 stars

I listened to the audiobook and herein lies my dilemma. I absolutely loved the art of narrating provided by Natalie Naudus. I think I might even have found a new favourite narrator.

Based on the audiobook version I would have rated it four and a half stars, but at the end of the day I'm clearly not the target group and overall - although I felt well entertained - it's not my cup of tea.

Review of 'I Kissed Shara Wheeler' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I grew up in the Midwest, not the South, but boy did Chloe's experience as an academically high-achieving theatre kid at a Christian high school in a smallish town resonate with me on every conceivable level.

This is, on its surface, a story about high school girl who goes missing and another high school girl who goes looking for her. In its heart, though, it's a book about belonging. It's about finding your people, even when those people are the people you least expect to be able to claim as yours. It's about being yourself, even when the world around you would strongly prefer you be someone else. It's about gender and queerness and longing and flowers and bookstores and kisses and prom dresses and maybes. It's such a beautiful, quirky exploration of the best and worst parts of high school, written by someone who clearly understands the subject matter …

CW: Homophobia, religion and sexuality

5 stars

I started this at 4.5 but I think I'm bumping it to 5.

Premise is that the Queen Bee of a religious school, kissed three people, disappears the night of prom, and it's up to those three to find her.

This includes a lot of queer representation, and shows that your identity can evolve as you do (that's a minor plot point though).

The second half of the book is wildly different than the first half, but I don't mean that in a bad way.

Everything felt well put-together in this book.

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