#One last stop age rating full#
#One last stop age rating free#

It felt like they went from hate to love too quickly, and I was left confused as to why they felt that way about each other.Īs well as the romance, the other major plotline was the John Green style mystery - trying to figure out where Shara disappeared to via the clues she left for them. The romance between Chloe and Shara was just meh. It wasn’t a bad book at all (in fact, it is rather a good one), but I don’t think it achieved all of what it promised. I really enjoyed RWARB and ADORED One Last Stop, so the fact that this was YA instead of NA didn’t put me off this release. IKSW was one of my most anticipated books of this year. Tropes: academic rivals to lovers, quest.

#One last stop age rating free#

This is going to be a spoiler free review. I Kissed Shara Wheeler follows Chloe, Smith and Rory as they try to solve the mystery of Shara Wheeler’s disappearance less than 24 hours after she kissed them all. This book is going to be so important for so many queer teens, especially queer teens of faith.Ĭontent warning: religious homophobia (this is mentioned in the author’s note at the start of the book). It’s easy to read, fun, and enjoyable, and yet it still deals with important topics sensitively and in a way that hits. It has everything you could want in a queer, ya story. It’s such a bittersweet feeling, and the way the story showed that so perfectly really stood out to me. The book also perfectly encapsulates the nostalgia that comes with the end of high school, the longing for the future but also wanting to cling onto the comfort of what you know, and making the most of the opportunities to make memories with those you love. I also really appreciated the way the book explored Christianity and showed that there are different ways for Christianity to be followed, rather than shaming the religion as a whole.

#One last stop age rating full#

This book is full of queer positivity and joy, and the message of realising that you’re not always alone even when it feels like you are, felt very important for me as a queer kid raised in Christianity. Throughout the book we see her go on a journey, learning that even the most unlikely places can become home, and the most unlikely group of people can become like a family. Willowgrove is a small, bible belt town, where Chloe feels like an outsider due to not only her queerness but also her lack of faith. Casey McQuinston’s writing, with its humour and wit also fit these characters perfectly, making you feel like you were going on the same journeys that the characters were. I particularly adored the friendship between Chloe, Smith and Rory as they solved Shara’s clues, and I loved the way their unlikely trio grew closer and helped each other along the way.

I loved the way the characters interacted with each other, and the way in which the relationships grew and developed felt extremely realistic. The relationships formed between these characters, from the romances to the friendships, were the high points for me. The characters all felt so real and human, all complex and flawed yet loveable. Chloe, Shara’s boyfriend Smith, and Rory must all work together to figure out where Shara went - after all, they were the ones Shara kissed before she left.Īs with all of Casey McQuinston’s books, the characters seemed to jump off the page. Shara Wheeler, the perfect queen bee of the school, who makes Chloe’s mission for valedictorian more complicated when she draws her into a mystery by disappearing after prom. All she wants before then is to be named valedictorian, but there is one person standing in her way: Shara Wheeler. The story follows Chloe Green, a highschooler at Willowgrove Academy who can’t wait to leave the stifling Christian small town she lives in with her moms and go to NYU with her best friend, Georgia. It was well written, humorous and incredibly uplifting, and I couldn’t put it down.

‘I Kissed Shara Wheeler’ is the perfect queer coming of age story, complete with sapphic rivals-to-lovers, found family and mystery.