Review: Just absolutely ridiculous...spoilers
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2013
I made it through the whole book but only because I have a really hard time not finishing a book when I've started it.  There was definitely some skimming happening through some of the rougher parts. The characters, dialogue, plot, everything was just bad.  Let's just forget for a second how stupid the idea is of a girl making her way through a kiss list and expecting that the type of popularity she garners will be positive.  Sadie, was just ridiculous.  She went from never having been kissed, maybe a little shy and thinking the kiss list was a bad idea to way over the top boy crazy and making so many poor choices along the way.  She wasn't just kissing each guy on the list.  She was leading guys to believe she was interested in them, purposefully making them think she was easy (sometimes being easy up to a point), blackmailing them, she even cheated (yes, I consider kissing one guys inner thigh and the waist band of his underwear and licking whipped cream off another guy's chest, etc. while she has a boyfriend as cheating), and then she acted shocked and hurt when people didn't view her as a "nice girl".  She did do some nice things and she wasn't a slut and didn't deserve to be called one but come on girl, show a little self control.  As long as the guy had nice abs and was on the kiss list, he could be reasonably assured of some action that went beyond the obligatory kiss , consequences be damned (with the exception of her friends' crushes.  I'll give her that) .  Kissing a guy just because he is hot is one thing, hands and lips all over his body is a step further, fondling his undercarriage is just...whoa, but showering with some dude you don't know, don't really have romantic interest in, and is friends with the guy you do like...too far girl, too far.  It was really hard to feel sorry for her when bad things happened when she made it so easy for bad things to happen.  And for a "nice girl", she wasn't much better than the mean girls.  For revenge on one girl, Missy, she tricked Missy's boyfriend into being kissed and fondled by several girls and took pictures that she planned to use to humiliate Missy.  She did all that but Missy is the only evil one when she gets revenge by getting a picture of Sadie doing something she willingly participated in until she found out it was a trick.  Then at the end, when Missy scattered pictures of Sadie kissing each of the kiss list guys all over the commons at school with harsh words on them, it is the end of the world.  These are pictures that Sadie took herself and was seriously considering printing as a collage in the  year book opposite of two pictures of Missy kissing two different guys with the headline of "Most Popular Girl", sarcastic quotation marks and all.  Yes, I'm sure the harsh words hurt but what did she think some people would say when they saw these pictures in the year book?  Did she think being popular for kissing a lot of boys was going to be a positive thing? Really? And don't give me the double standard argument.  If a dude and his buddies put together a list of hot girls that one of them kissed his way through and then planned to brag about it via pictures in the yearbook, they certainly wouldn't be praised as fun, passionate and adventurous at the end of the story.You need more examples?  Here are a couple lines from the book."'So if you think I'm cute, and I think you're cute,' he said in a low voice, 'doesn't that mean we should make out or something.'"  That led to a Sadie's first kiss ever in the gym at lunch time with a dude she didn't really know but who was on the kiss list.  No, "how about a date", no, "do you want  to hang out  sometime"  straight to "we should make out  or something".Another example?"'Well I'm not all that interested in traveling out of state with a bunch of soccer girls,' I said in my best flirty voice. 'But if the lacrosse team was going as well, I think I could be persuaded to split a room with you.'"  That led to kissing another kiss list guy that she didn't know in the gym and getting upset with him when he was moving too quickly.  First, she had just thought about how she was nervous about kissing this guy because he was known for moving too quickly  yet she opens with a line about getting a room with him.  Second, she previously had decided to be more honest and open with the guys about the kiss list but this was how she decided to approach him.  What happened to honesty?So yeah, I didn't care for the book.  I honestly probably wouldn't have thought most...some of her behavior was that big of a deal but for the fact that the whole thing was not at all romantic. It was just hot boys that she hooked up with while she had a secret crush on one (though the crush seemed to be out of sight out of mind).  Isn't a little romance the point of a book like this?