I Kissed Shara Wheeler short review

I saw this book making the rounds last year after it came out but it first caught my eye when I saw @shesreading01 on Instagram read and recommend it ages ago, but it takes me a while to get to the books on my Kindle. Once I started this I could not put it down and just devoured it, also it was perfect for reading in the Alice Oseman signing queue at the Edinburgh Book Festival.

I kissed Shara Wheeler follows Chloe Green who is trying to find out where her classmate, Shara Wheeler, after she kissed her out of the blue and then disappeared after prom. She teamed up with Shara's boyfriend and her neighbour to follow the clues she's left behind.

I was really invested in where this book was going and what had happened to Shara. I really enjoy mystery/thriller books but I liked how for a change (mainly in my reading) this one was more of a contemporary story without a murder going on and no crime. It was intriguing and had me desperate to know what happened, as well as feeling like a great combination of two of my favourite genres.

I loved Chloe as a character but I could see what was going to happen with her friends from very early on. I also really loved Smith and Rory and how they developed over the course of the book to learn who they truly were. While these characters were some of my favourites I did love all of them and it was great to how they all turned out in the end (iykyk).

Overall this was a great book that had me hooked and surprised me with just how much I loved it. I highly recommend and I would love to see what YA Casey McQuiston is going to release next.

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