From the New York Times bestselling author of One Last Stop and Red, White & Royal Blue comes a debut YA romantic comedy about chasing down what you want, only to find what you need...

Chloe Green is so close to winning. 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 thing that’s kept her going: winning valedictorian. Her only rival: prom queen Shara Wheeler, the principal’s perfect progeny.

But a month before graduation, Shara kisses Chloe and vanishes.

On a furious hunt for answers, Chloe discovers she’s not the only one Shara kissed. There’s also Smith, Shara’s longtime quarterback sweetheart, and Rory, Shara’s bad boy neighbor with a crush. 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. It’ll be worth it, if Chloe can drag Shara back before graduation to beat her fair-and-square.

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. And maybe—probably not, but maybe—more to Shara, too.

Fierce, funny, and frank, Casey McQuiston's I Kissed Shara Wheeler is about breaking the rules, getting messy, and finding love in unexpected places.

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Robin

(5/5)

633

Apr 26, 2024

↠ 5 starsFour years after her moms uprooted her from their life in Southern California to attend school in Alabama, high school senior Chloe Green is closer to victory than ever before. Attending a conservative high school hasn't been easy, but competition with Willowgrove Academys it-girl, and her fiercest rival Shara Wheeler, has propelled her to success and all but tied them out for high school valedictorian. Chloe is so close to beating Shara, but on the weekend of the senior prom, Shara kis...

theresa

430

It’s no secret that Casey McQuiston is one of my favourite authors. At this point I would happily read their grocery list. Thankfully, I Kissed Shara Wheeler is much better than that. 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...

booksandzoe

(4/5)

372

I can now confirm that this is in fact faberry-core! also a bit of pezberry. give mean annoying girls more rom-coms‼️‼️TY to libro.fm for the audiobook🥰

Nilufer Ozmekik

209

A book couldn’t have been written so impeccable by addressing so sensitive issues: identity crisis, youth problems with multi layered characterization and perfect LGBTQ representation with my favorite John Green books vibes! The idea of chasing a lost student by following the crumbles she’s left which turned into a treasure hunt of our heroine Chloe’s teaming up with definitely likable boyfriend Smith, bad boy next door Rory (we love to hate and hate to love )to gather the pieces of puzzle for f...

Melanie

130

Ellie

104

the fact that this book includes academic rivals to lovers just shows it was written personally for me

Katie Colson

(2/5)

I’m so disappointed to say I really didn’t like this book. I love the intent of a romance between two intelligent and morally effed up women. But the execution was so poor in my opinion. It wasn’t love. It was obsession. Very toxic and didn’t make much sense. I couldn’t understand why this main character kept looking for Shara and trying so hard to figure this overly drawn out puzzle out. I didn’t get it and unfortunately I didn’t like the ride

cel ✼ readwithcel

may 2022 reread: its kind of funny how i've written a whole ass review for iksw and yet i don't think it even comes close to encompassing how much i found my heart in this book___hey siri how do i tattoo this entire book behind my eyelids so i can read it every time i close my eyes !!✼ thank you to st martins international for sending me an arc of iksw (screams) in exchange for an honest reviewi’ve built a home in casey mcquiston’s words.i built a home in red white & royal blue. meeting alex cla...

Jena

4.25 starsI Kissed Shara Wheeler has a ton of tropes and elements that I don't typically love (such as a mystery plot line, an idealized 'it girl' character, and a love triangle involving bisexual characters - nothing wrong with that I am just very wary of books playing into biphobic stereotypes). In spite of all that, I absolutely loved this book. I truly believe Casey McQuiston's writing has advanced in the last few years. Despite this being her first YA book, I think it's her most maturely wr...

Hannah

(3/5)

3.5 STARSOh, it pains me to have to write this review for an author I love. I just want to preface it by saying that I am not the biggest fan of young adult mysteries or contemporaries, so that could very well be a reason why I wasn't the biggest fan of this book. I have only heard amazing things from everyone else who has read this, so it is likely a case of this book just wasn't the right fit for me. However, I feel obligated to write a review with my honest opinions. If I were to describe thi...

sirius proserpine

losing my shit, will never be the same, crying my eyes out, treasuring this forever, etc etc.-I AM FREAKING THE F U C K OUT ALL I WANT IN LIFE IS THIS BOOK IT IS THE THING I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED BUT NEVER DESERVEDcmq really went and said “what is the book that will make sirius fucking die from happiness” and then said “ah yes ok it’ll be ACADEMIC ENEMIES TO LOVERS in a SMALL TOWN in the fucking BIBLE BELT with a fucking RUNAWAY PROM QUEEN and to top it all off it’ll be SAPPHIC AS HELL” and this is...

micah ➳ canonicallychaotic

read 2: may 4, 2022 // as i read this again, i wondered if i misremembered it. i wasn’t feeling the things i remembered feeling when i read it last year—at least not as heavily. but as i got to the final act of the book? fuck. there it was. and it really was there the whole time. i’m so so glad this book exists. read 1: december 7, 2021 // from now on there is only my life after reading this book➳ thank you so much to wednesday books for sending me an earc of my most anticipated book of 2022 in

Blaine

Update 5/3/22: Reposting my review to celebrate that today is publication day!Why does she care? Because she and Shara have both spent every day of their high school careers dedicated to the singular goal of graduating valedictorian, and the only thing Chloe has ever wanted as much as that title is the satisfaction of knowing Shara Wheeler can’t have it. Because Shara Wheeler has everything else.Because if Shara’s really gone, that’s a forfeit, and Chloe Green does not win by default.Because two...

Fish

I sat down to read this book and didn’t move for four hours. (Review to come) I absolutely loved it

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