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Giveaway! The Kissing Booth by Beth Reekles

April 17, 2013 by Sandie 22 Comments

The Kissing Booth

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?

In case you missed the segment on “Today,” Beth Reekles is 17-year-old Welsh teen who wrote a crazy popular novel on the self-publishing site Wattpad. The story was so popular it garnered over 40,000 comments and millions of reads. Random House’s UK division discovered Reekles and offered her a much-coveted three-book deal. Here in the States, Random House has offered us two copies of the paperback to give to lucky readers.

“The Kissing Booth” is a high-school romance about a girl named Elle whose very best friend in the world is Lee, a guy she’s known forever and feels comfortable enough with to change clothes in front of him. They are NOT the stereotypical “friends to more” trope, as much as I love that trajectory. No, Elle has the hots for Elle’s older bad-boy brother, Noah (“Flynn” to everyone else). Noah’s a womanizing scholar athlete with a reputation for threatening any guy who so much looks at Elle the wrong way, but somehow Elle can’t imagine that Noah would really have feelings for her. Then comes the school carnival, in which Elle must sit at the Kissing Booth she and Lee came up with — right as Noah approaches. Their kiss — her first — changes everything.

Reekles’ writing wasn’t as mature as Kody Keplinger’s (who was also a teen when she wrote “The DUFF” in 2010), and I had a few issues with the British-isms that hadn’t been edited out of the book yet (instead of continuing to set the story in the U.K. for American readers, the story is supposed to be in California, but there were a lot of instances in which little things got lost in translation. For example, American teens wouldn’t order a “half-fat latte,” call a football player a “footballer” or use some of the other words in the book. I think those who adore high-school love stories will see past some of these issues and enjoy Elle and Noah’s rocky road to romance.

My favorite part of the book was Elle and Lee’s friendship, which is incredibly close but strictly platonic — they tell each other about their hook ups and dates without the baggage of wondering if the other is secretly in love. I’m trying to think of other contemporary boy-girl best friends who are as intimate without the sexual tension, and I can’t think of any! That’s the clever thing about Reekles’ story; she didn’t give into the trend to write about best friends who really want to tear each other’s clothes off; sometimes best friends of the opposite sex really are that — best friends who can’t imagine being with each other that way.

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  1. Tammy says

    April 17, 2013 at 8:55 am

    I’m a sucker for a high school romance. Great review!

    Reply
  2. jackieleasommers says

    April 17, 2013 at 9:26 am

    Sounds good! Is it the stereotypical good-girl-wants-bad-guy though?

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    • SandieSandie says

      April 18, 2013 at 10:15 am

      Hi there — he’s not quite “bad” enough to be a stereotypical bad guy. It’s more of the stereotypical “I can’t believe I’m the one that he wants” book plus with the whole “my best friend is your brother and he’ll kill both of us if this doesn’t work out” mixed in 😉

      Reply
  3. Amanda M. says

    April 17, 2013 at 11:29 am

    Sounds great! I can’t wait to read this as I’ve heard so much about it!

    Reply
    • SandieSandie says

      April 18, 2013 at 10:14 am

      I’ll keep my fingers crossed you win one of the available paperbacks then! I think if you like cute high school books, it will be right up your alley.

      Reply
  4. Candice says

    April 17, 2013 at 11:57 am

    Sounds cute!

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    • SandieSandie says

      April 18, 2013 at 10:13 am

      Yup, cute is the right word for it. I look forward to seeing how she develops as a contemporary YA romance writer.

      Reply
  5. Sabre says

    April 17, 2013 at 1:11 pm

    I’m adding it to my TBR list right now. Thanks for the review!

    Reply
    • SandieSandie says

      April 18, 2013 at 10:13 am

      Sabre, you read so fast that you could definitely read it in one sitting 🙂

      Reply
  6. Julie S. says

    April 17, 2013 at 5:45 pm

    Sounds like a cute read 🙂

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    • SandieSandie says

      April 18, 2013 at 10:12 am

      Cute is the right word for it. It’s not a life-changing book that you’ll long to read again and again, but it’s cute and how amazing that a 17-year-old wrote something cohesive enough to get published 🙂

      Reply
  7. DianaDiana says

    April 17, 2013 at 7:17 pm

    I agree that this sounds like a cute read. However, I wanted to add that Hermione and Harry were best friends who never thought about each other in the “tear each other’s clothes off” way.

    Reply
    • SandieSandie says

      April 18, 2013 at 10:10 am

      Yeah, definitely true. I was thinking of more contemporary books, since that’s the genre of The Kissing Booth, but you’re totally right!

      Reply
  8. Kristin says

    April 17, 2013 at 7:18 pm

    As a reading teacher of teens, I’m curious to read a book for teens by a teen!

    Reply
    • SandieSandie says

      April 18, 2013 at 9:44 am

      I wouldn’t say she’s a wunderkind, but it’s good for teens to see that it’s possible to get published at a young age!

      Reply
  9. Tee says

    April 17, 2013 at 11:15 pm

    I have to read this. I love kissing books!

    Reply
    • SandieSandie says

      April 18, 2013 at 9:44 am

      I know how much you like a good snog 😉

      Reply
  10. Marie says

    April 19, 2013 at 1:11 am

    I’ve heard great things about this novel

    Reply
  11. Linda says

    April 19, 2013 at 9:48 pm

    I’ve read great things about Beth and would love to read the novel

    Reply
  12. Julie says

    April 19, 2013 at 10:02 pm

    Love the story line

    Reply
  13. Donna says

    April 19, 2013 at 10:13 pm

    Sounds like a lovely novel

    Reply
  14. Hannah says

    April 22, 2013 at 10:44 pm

    I read the first four chapters on wattpad and it seemed super good.

    Reply

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