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Kiss Blog: A Novel |
Author: Alyson Noel
Published: 2007-05-15 |
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 Light and fluffy read, but predictable and hard to believe
Winter and her best friend Sloane want to be part of the in-crowd, so they take drastic measures over the summer to ensure their popularity. Predictably, Sloane gets "in," Winter doesn't, Sloane drops Winter, Winter creates a "revenge blog" and meets a boy, Winter gets the boy.
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br /I know Noel intends for us to root for Winter because Sloane is so obviously nasty and disloyal, but Winter is almost Sloane's equal as far as likability. Her blog is increasingly nasty, spilling all of Sloane's secrets to the Internet in general. Winter owes Sloane nothing, but the spitefulness of her blog makes her a fairly unlikable protagonist.
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br /On the vast Internet, what are the odds of everyone in your high school and the neighboring middle school finding and becoming obsessed with YOUR blog, without a hint or link from you? If so many local people have stumbled across it, why doesn't anyone have ANY clue who Winter's talking about, when it's pretty obvious from her online anecdotes? Not that it's unlikely to have online activities discovered by people who know you IRL, but the likelihood of all of your acquaintances squealing, "Have you read this blog? Isn't it the COOLEST? Aren't you DYING to know what she'll spill next?" seems pretty slim.
 Alyson Noel delivers again!
Winter and her best friend Sloane who were social rejects the year before make a vow to do whatever it takes to become popular. The popular girls accepted Sloane from the start and hate Winter all along (there is an incident when they are at the mall and one of the popular girls puts down Winter's financial situation by holding clothes up in front of her that she knows she can't afford and saying things like "Too bad this shirt costs more then your whole outfit"). The more popular Sloane becomes the more she starts to forget all about Winter and after deciding not to try out for cheerleading with her and stealing the cheer Winter worked hard on by herself, she abandons their friendship all together. Winter decides to get revenge by creating a blog with all of Sloane's dirty little secrets but she changes Sloane's name calling her Princess Pink and her friends the Pink Posse (You have to wonder how dumb Sloane's new "friends" are since they didn't get that the blog was about Sloane until the end of the book although Winter does include current facts about their clique.) The blog is down right embarrassing and reveals things like Sloane going to second base with her cousin, her mom stealing another woman's husband, her dad being in jail, and how she used lip gloss after it fell in the toilet without even wiping it off. (There is a lot more but you have to read to find out) At first Winter feels justified doing it and then she feels bad about it and wonders if it was worth it.
br /The book which is written by Alyson Noel, (who in my opinion is one of the most underrated young adult authors there is), is a good read although it does have the typical mean girls like clique in it that most teen novels seem to overdo to death. It teaches a lesson about how revenge isn't always as sweet as it sounds. Just like with Ms. Noel's previous books: Laguna Cove and Faking 19, it made me wish she would write a series with the characters. I really wanted to see Winter and Sloane becoming friends again I could see them forgiving each other for everything.
br /Grade: A+
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 Popularity is not what it seems
Winter and Sloane have always been the best of friends until popularity comes and takes it all away. The world of popularity has been their dream, so after they spend all summer preparing for there debut in the world of popularity Sloane makes it, while Winter doesn't. Remembering the promise that they made to each other, Sloane trys to include Winter in activities with Jaci, Claire and herself, but Jaci and Claire make fun of Winter. Soon enough Sloane gives up on Winter and goes her own way. How can Winter possibly get revenge? The modern way of course;blogging! What happens with the revenge blog? Read kiss and blog by Alyson Noel to find out for yourself!
Great Book
Okay so pretty much Sloane and Winter are tired of being geeks so this year they are going to try to be popular and promise if one gets popular they will carry the other along. Nope once Sloane sees the good life she NEVER looks back! Well actually it goes a little differently but that's like how they put it on the back of the book. Anyway this was a really good book, it got me hooked on Alyson Noel who is a good author. Read this one pretty quickly!
This was an awsome book
I loved this book. I had a really hard time putting it down. I felt like I was a part of there lives. The characters took me everywhere, school, New York, the mall, the cafe and lots more. Its very descriptive and something that is very easy to relate to!
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br /I totally recommend this book and every single one of her others!
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