If We Kiss by Rachel Vail

Book: If We Kiss by Rachel Vail

Release date: May 1, 2006
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: HarperTeen
From: Bookstore
Summary:
What would happen if we kiss?

Kevin led me quickly around the side of the building, then stopped. I managed not to crash into him. I tried to look calm, cool, unperturbed. I told myself not to laugh, especially not a snorting kind of laugh. “Wha . . . what did . . .”

And then he kissed me.

If We Kiss is the story of Charlotte (Charlie to her friends), who finds herself falling for a boy who is off-limits. Her best friend is in love with him, and her mother and his father are dating. Still, Charlie can’t help but wonder, what would happen if we kiss?

*****
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.
Writing: 8/10
Characters: 5/10
Plot: 6/10
Ending: 6/10
Originality: 8/10
Overall: 33/50=D
Cover: 7/10=C-
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9 comments

  1. this book was great i loved it i dont no what you are talking about…your acting like the characters are real!

  2. um actually i don’t think you described this book really well. It wasnt as horrible as you say. I loved it!
    everyone has their owp opinion, but you’re sayin how horrible it is. when it wasnt so horrible, at all, i thnk.

  3. sounds like a great book right now im reading Gorgeous. Its a good book. 🙂 but the cover for if we kiss should be a dark face (boy, no features) about to kiss another dark face (no features, girl) 😀

  4. i can relate to the book thanks thats exactly how my first kiss was. And yea she a teenage girl whiny, selfish, rude, and just plain mean at times is how most teen girls are so…