Review: Kiss Crush Collide by Christina Meredith
Title: Kiss Crush Collide
Hardcover, 336 pages
Author: Christina Meredith
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Publication Date: December 27, 2011
Source: Publisher
Buy: Amazon
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Book Summary from Goodreads.com:
Leah has the life most high school girls would kill for—popularity, glowing grades, a rich, athletic boyfriend. So why does she feel like she can’t breathe? And why can’t she stop thinking about the boy from the country club? The one who isn’t her boyfriend, the one that her mother would never, ever approve of, the one that her perfect older sisters would never, ever look at twice. The one who is always looking back at her.
Review:
Misleading cover much?
Fully expecting a huge passionate romantic plot, I picked up Kiss Crush Collide on an afternoon I was looking for a solid contemporary read. Unfortunately, this didn’t play out very well for me.
The cover and summary have us expecting to read a steamy story, but by page 100 I was still wondering when that was going to happen. When Leah finally does meet a boy, she gets that passion we were looking for before – but HAS A BOYFRIEND and has no intention of changing that fact throughout the ENTIRE BOOK. Literally. This really, really got to me – I am not at all interested in reading about someone who cheats on their significant other and has no emotional connection to that at all.
Besides the boy, Leah has two sisters that she is sort of following in the footsteps of. I actually feel like the familial element should have been the focus of the cover/summary, as I was MUCH more interested in Leah’s interactions with her two sisters and mom than with the mysterious boy she meets.
I didn’t connect well with much of this book and felt extremely mislead from the beginning. I feel like it was molded into something it wasn’t meant to be instead of focusing on the topics Meredith did a good job with. This one wasn’t for me.
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I thought the love elements that were included were pretty steamy but as a whole the copy was a bit misleading and due to the comparisons to beloved authors like Simone Elkeles, the book especially suffered.
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I didn’t like this one either and I think that I would have liked it if I wouldn’t have thought it was like Perfect Chemistry going into it….
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I actually really liked this book. I agree it was misleading synopsis, but once I got over that, I loved the writing. I especially loved the author’s whit and sense of humor. Her ability to focus on minute details and her descriptions.
I also loved that she kept a sense of mystery about Leah. It wasn’t some pre-packaged romance. It was more complex. And I liked that. I would give it a bit more props.