I didn't know it was possible to be SO ANNOYED WITH A BOOK. I stopped at 14.6% (love you Kindle!). Normally, I wouldn't review a book without finishing it - pretty much because I always finish the books I get, and if I don't it's because I need to return them to the library, not because they are that bad.This book was just not quality. It wasn't even realistic. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, although I'm sure there are people out there who like it. Let me say this - if the actual writing of the book is important to you, if teenage bubble-gum chewing narration grates on your ears, if you for goodness' sake NEED SOME COMMAS AND ARTFUL SYNTAX IN YOUR LIFE, stay away from this book.However, this book did give me a slightly deeper understanding of myself. It helped me realize:1. Why for the first 15 years of my life I stayed the heck away from realistic fiction. I remember, now. All the realistic fiction out there used to be so girly and cheesy, about little "middle school", even high school problems. This party, that party, let's go get drunk for no reason...(actually, I wasn't reading books like that in middle school. That's more the annoyances I have to deal with now.) I JUST CAN'T DEAL WITH BOOKS LIKE THAT. Give me a story, give me something strong, at the very least give me some kind of revelation with the whole coming-of-age shebang, or a romance that tugs at my heart. After all the beautiful realistic fiction I've managed to find lately, now I remember where that grudge came from...2. The reason I also hated first person for the first 15 years of my life. I do not want a constant babble of all your thoughts, character! Especially all the shallow, annoying ones. I've seen it done well, so I can tolerate it sometimes.3. Why I love commas. And metaphors. And anything pretty and artful and remotely different than a basic sentence.4. Some people are crazy. Example #1 - Charlotte. What in the world is up with her? Why was she so obsessed with Kevin, why did she think she was in love with him after he kissed her (umm...dude, people do not have to be in love to make out, although that would be nice), and why one earth does she still like him when he totally ignores her and is such a jerk? Example #2 - Kevin. I think my mind has been corrupted, so don't mind this one, but I just have to say it. Maybe he just enjoys being a player, but does it not strike anyone as remotely weird that every five minutes he kisses a different girl but...that's it? Like, no hidden intentions, macho man? From what I read, that guy was the most one dimensional, juvenile jerk I've ever happened upon in young adult literature.I'm kind of wondering why I rated Twilight so low now. I actually like Twilight. I think I just would feel like a social pariah by giving that book more than two stars...
If We Kiss is a book with no real substance. I guess there could have been a message to it but it didn't come across to me. It all just seemed a little too pointless.If We Kiss is about Charlie's first kiss and what happens afterward. The whole kissing part wasn't even that big. The story was more about what happens if she kisses him again later even though she didn't enjoy it the first time. Oh and things have really changed since the first time she kissed him seeing as now her mom is dating his dad and her best friend is dating him.I couldn't like Charlie. She was whiny, selfish, rude, and just plain mean at times. Her mom was actually happy dating Kevin's dad but she had to be a complete bitch because that is not what she wanted. Her best friend was dating Kevin but whenever she thought about Kevin, she didn't seem to mind that. There were times when she even wished he would dump her. What kind of friend does that?Also, there just didn't seem to be anything to the story until the end when Charlie finally grew up a little. She was 14-years-old but she acted more like she was 11 or 12. The setting of the high school didn't seem like any high school today. It's almost like the characters could have been in middle school. That was probably closer to their attitudes.Overall, I didn't like If We Kiss and I would only recommend it if you are desperate. I couldn't get into it and now I am just glad that I am done with it.
What do You think about If We Kiss (2011)?
***THERE ARE SPOILERS! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!***First off let me say that Charlie is a freaking dumb ass bimbo! Who in the hell would still want to kiss someone when all you could think of afterwards was GERMS?! Shouldn't you be thinking, oh I don't know, something along the lines of if you even like the guy?!?!?! Charlie always went on and on about how she hated Kevin but the second he kisses her she's all I LOVE YOU KEVIN!!! LOVE ME BACK!!! So f***king pathetic!! And even when her best friend. HER BEST FRIEND OF ALL PEOPLE!!! Starts to date him she still didn't care. Even after she saw him kissing Tess right after he kissed her, she still couldn't stop thinking about him and how much she wanted to kiss him again! Like I said before. A freaking dumb ass bimbo! She ends up losing her best friend all because she was too horny to keep her tongue in her mouth. Then even after she realizes that the guy she should be with has always been there for her and cared about her, what does she do? She can't stop herself from kissing Kevin again!!!! WHAT A F***KING IDIOT!!! And he becomes her stepbrother for god sake, but she still can't stop thinking about him. Then when I think all is said and done and she's going to choose George over Kevin, Thank god right? Wrong!! He comes to her room to say good night....They end up kissing AGAIN!! And that's the end of the book. WHAT A FREAKING JOKE!! I gave the book 1 star. If I could I would give it 0. It was a good laugh since the protagonist was such a freaking idiot but over all it was only worth 1 star. I will never recommend this book to anyone and if you do read it then have fun. Charlie is one heck of a dumb ass.
—Tia ~ Everything is possible, the impossible just takes longer ~
If We KissRachel Vail259 pgs.HarperCollinsPublishersISBN 0-06-056914-XCharlotte (Charlie) fell in love with someone who she "shouldn't" be in love with. No one knows who this person is, not even her bestest friend Tess. With this secret kept all to herself, Tess slowly fell in love with him and they became a couple. Having to see them always together, Charlie doesn't know how to be herself. Besides this love relationship, her mother is also going out with his father. How is she going to continue to face all this when she is still thinking about what would happen if they kiss?Rachel Vail's writing style seems descriptive to me, especially when she's describing the kissing parts and how Charlie feels. When she does this, I can feel as if I, myself, am Charlie. I can feel the sadness within her, and maybe even some jealousy. If something like this ever happened to me, I wouldn't know what I would do. I wouldn't know if I should or shouldn't tell my best friend about how I feel and what I've done. I would recommend this book to ones who love to read about relationships; no matter if it is love relationships or friendship. This book can teach readers about true relationships and maybe even how one should resolve their own problems. It can teach readers what is the correct thing to do and because they've done the right thing, they would not regret.
—Diana
this book frustrated me in a lot of parts 1:the fact that they kiss in the first 6 pages 2:that if charlie had told tess that he had kissed her than kevin wouldn't have been kissing tess at the party. 3:it seems that kevin is not a good "boyfriend" (since he kissed her friend) so WHY does charlie like him?? if my friend had a crush on a boy than he kissed me i would tell her so she could tell him off!
—Olive
