I don’t know if you could set a book like this one in 1998 and have such great representation and honest exploration of friendship and freedom. 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 a puritanical administration at Willowgrove Christian Academy. The Summary:Ĭhloe Green is so close to winning. Turns out, 24 years out of a toxic private Christian segregation academy is just enough time to process it again on the page.

But I wasn’t sure I was ready for young adult novel of the same ilk with a dash of … well, my own high school experience. McQuiston is a giant in the sweet and funny LGBTQ rom-coms, and her debut, Red, White and Royal Blue was a massive hit and one of my favorite contemporary romances of the last few years. Take John Green and Nina LaCour and mix with a little smidge of sweet tea-flavored southern religious trauma, and you’ll get the newest novel from runaway best-seller, Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler.

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