Drawn together by their ties to Shara, an unlikely alliance forms that will have them crashing parties, breaking and entering, and uncovering clues to Shara’s whereabouts in the most unexpected places. The daughter of two moms, her family moved from Los Angeles to False Beach, Alabama just in time for her to start at the local Christian high school.

A month before graduating from Willowgrove Christian Academy, the principal’s perfect daughter, prom queen Shara Wheeler, kisses Chloe Green and vanishes. It’s a truly glorious thing to live inside the world of this book and to imagine it becoming reality, too. But I have read a few lgbtq+ romance books now and I find that I do enjoy them in between all the fantasy all the time. It takes all the wonderful feelings of being a teenager, McQuiston’s signature humour and characters who leap off the page and combines them with some of the less wonderful parts of being a teenager – especially when living in a small town in the Bible Belt – to create an uplifting and endlessly entertaining coming of age story.

That letter was full of so much emotion, and I really started to understand the dynamic of the characters a lot more. Chosen family and LGBTQIA+ elders are given weight to the central romantic story lines in this thoughtful meditation on LGBTQIA+ identity, pride, popularity, academic success, jealousy, and idolization. I Kissed Shara Wheeler is a funny, sweet story that will have you rooting for the main characters to get what they want.

Every second he was on the page, the story lit up, and his interactions with Rory were so wonderful.Fierce, funny, and frank, Casey McQuiston’s I Kissed Shara Wheeler is about breaking the rules, getting messy, and finding love in unexpected places. A seemingly simple yet perplexing chain of events brings together a bunch of misfits that form the best kind of friendship. Firstly there were too many chapters with mostly similar names gave me hard time to catch up with their back stories and till the last third I wanted to scream at Chloe’s face for being extra obnoxious! I loved how everything came together and felt like it was a fitting ending for the characters and story, one that was hopeful but ultimately realistic. I also really enjoyed many dynamics between characters in this book (though I won't mention them as it can be a tad spoiler-y).

But when she sticks her head through the open door and scans the Wheelers’ enormous kitchen, Shara’s nowhere.aren't original in any way, hell half of them are addressed in The Breakfast Club but they are still important and still apply today. about realizing you're not alone, realizing it's that it's okay to question even if you think you know who you are, and finding that space where you can just be whoever that is. its about the home you make with your queer friend group, how you /see/ each other daily, even in places that refuse to see you. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.