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    Kiss Crush Collide

    By Christina Meredith

    2.5/5

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    Kiss
    What Leah did—only she really shouldn’t have—one hot night at a country club party.

    Crush
    What Leah has—only she really shouldn’t have—on the guy with the green eyes, the guy who is not her perfect boyfriend, the guy who does not fit in her picture-perfect life, the guy her sisters will only mock and her mother will never approve of. Not in a million years.

    Collide
    What happens when everything you always thought you wanted—having cool friends, being class valedictorian and homecoming queen—runs smack into everything it turns out you really do want.

    Kiss. Crush. Collide.
    For Leah and Porter, summer is only the beginning.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateDec 27, 2011
    ISBN9780062062260
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    Kiss Crush Collide
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    Christina Meredith

    Christina Meredith has always wondered, "How fun is it to drive if you always know exactly where you're going to end up?" She lives in Sausalito, California. This is her first book.

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    • 2/5
      Recommended (if you have extra money)Leah is the 3rd sister in her family and her mother has completely created her life. There is no question that Leah will be valedictorian, prom queen, get into the right college and have the perfect boyfriend. Her mother makes sure she looks perfect and has the same expectations of each of her daughters. She has blond hair, blue eyes and is just gorgeous. There are a few frustrating elements to the story. The first, is why Leah decided she did not want to drive and made herself totally dependent on her boyfriend or her mother. The second is that she completely let her life be shaped by other people. The one thing she kept for herself was swimming. Leah meets Duffy one night at the country club. She was there for a party and he was there working. They end up making out and they fall for each other. Leah still has her “mom approved” boyfriend, but she does not really like him. Duffy makes her realize that she wants more from her life. Perfection is just a façade. Leah soon makes a realization that her sister is getting married because she is pregnant. Leah’s mom made the same mistake when she was young. Perhaps she was pushing for perfection so hard because she was not perfect herself. But she wanted to be.This is a pretty tame romance. I think it is appropriate for high school libraries. There is not much that is objectionable. I don’t think this book can be used within a Common Core curriculum. It is good to put on the library shelves for pleasure reading. It was a quick read, and once I got into it, I wanted to know how it ended. I would book talk it to girls wanting to read a high school romance novel. Students who like to read about the popular girl falling for the wrong guy would appreciate this book.

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    • 1/5
      I enjoy reading YA fiction and expect it to be as smart and interesting in its way as adult fiction. Unfortunately this book was neither smart nor interesting. The characters are 1-dimensional and a little inconceivable - I understand that Leah wants more from her life than what she's been handed on a silver platter, and more from her family and friends than they're capable of giving her, but she is as passive and as boring as a robot. The only thing she manages to accomplish in this last summer of high school is to cheat on her boyfriend, and even that she doesn't handle very well. I just wanted to scream at her, 'do something! say something! grow up!' I was looking forward to a little romance, a few steamy moments, and some sort of satisfying resolution to the tried-and-true "girl meets boy from the wrong side of the tracks" plot. It could have been cliched, I was expecting that. What I was not expecting was such a flat and boring non-story. I give this book only 1 star, I recommend other readers go looking for teen romance somewhere else.

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    • 3/5
      When I first came across Kiss Crush Collide I couldn't wait to get my hands on it. Based on the synopsis, I just knew I had to read it. I was super excited to finally have a copy and started it immediately. I guess my expectations were a little too high being that the book was compared to Perfect Chemistry, which I adored.Leah has huge shoes to fill. Her family is rich and they only want the best for her and her sisters. But her mother is a little too controlling and pretty much runs their lives. She has very high expectations when it comes to her daughters. To her mother, it's all about what’s on the outside. You look at them and you would think "Perfect Happy Family." Her sisters were Valedictorians, dated the captain of the football team, prom queen, you name it, they did it. So all this was expected of Leah as well, but when someone is telling you what to do with your life, who to date, how to dress, you begin to get bored. Leah didn't even have to study because she wasn't going to fail. That is how popular her family is and that also tells you just HOW rich they are. So what does Leah do? She begins to take things into her own hands. She tries things she's never done before, like cheating on her boyfriend with someone her family wouldn't approve of. It just happened. But what she didn't expect was to actually fall in love. What I had a problem with was I felt that Meredith focused a little too much on Leah's life and gave too little about the romance. According to the synopsis, I am expecting this huge forbidden romance and lots of drama, but I did not get that. You get a couple of chapters of Leah and Porter together, but nothing that would WOW you. I liked them together, but I just didn't feel the connection in the beginning. It wasn't until almost the near end that you finally get a feel for them. The way it all played out though, was put together really well, but I would have liked a lot more. There was just way too much of Leah's life and memories than there was romance. Now the book isn't bad, but it just wasn't what I was expecting at all. Christina is a great writer though and excellent at describing things. It wasn't hard at all to picture what Leah was feeling, or picture a scene in my head. Again, I just wish there was A LOT more of Porter and Leah.Would I recommend Kiss Crush Collide? Yes. Other than what I listed above, it actually has a good meaning behind it.Will I read any future books by Christina Meredith? Yes. I really do like her way of writing.I give Kiss Crush Collide 3 out of 5 Stars!

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    • 4/5
      This book is not what I expected but still enjoyed it. I loved the elements of a staged life. Something that is forced on you and you are drowning so deep, that only someone with the same experience can help you. The characters in the book were nicely written. I liked reading about the Leah. Her life is nothing but a show. As the reader, I enjoyed seeing her struggle against who she is and what she wants. She is tired of living something that she is not. The reader also gets good insight on her family. And let me tell you that her family ticked me off badly. I despised that they thought what is good for her, they made her choices and mostly important, they thought for her! The reader see the struggle for balance in Leah's life and makes way for a bad boy readers can't resist. Enter another plot change, Porter. Now here is a character who threw the plot line a whole new direction! He is bad. So bad he makes my mouth water! LOL! I enjoyed watching this character throw new dimensions at Leah. When he ask her to something spontaneous, she could do nothing but respond. I loved reading the characters weak points, but also seeing them get stronger. The plot flows in the same direction, in which will Leah choose? Will she stand up for herself? Or will she let her family choose her life? Kiss Crush Collide is exactly that. A spontaneous kiss. A crush in a new life. A collide of decisions. This is a book of clarity of which Leah is found in. Filled with teenage heart aching for more than what she has, Kiss Crush Collide is a fun paced book that is good read.

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