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Young Adult Fiction
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Funny book :)
(Updated: June 26, 2026)
Overall rating
4.0
Plot
4.0
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Reader reviewed by Laina
Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Summary (from the publisher's website, because the thing on the back of the book is really, really long): NAOMI AND ELY ARE BEST FRIENDS. Naomi loves and is in love with Ely, and Ely loves Naomi, but prefers to be in love
with boys. So they create their "No Kiss List" of people neither of
them is allowed to kiss. And this works fine - until Bruce. Bruce is
Naomi's boyfriend, so there's no reason to put him on the List. But Ely
kissed Bruce
even though he is boring. The result: a rift of universal proportions
and the potential end of "Naomi and Ely: the institution." Can these
best friends come back together again?
Review:
I know what you're thinking... you're thinking I'm going to say I hated
it and you're expecting me to find a half dozen things I didn't like
it. Guess what people? You're wrong. I quite liked it!
It was
really, really funny and well written, with interesting characters. I
actually read most of this when I'd first woken up, before I even
turned on the light, which shows how involved I was in it, reading in
half-light. It's a very good read for when you're in a crabby mood and
feel like you can't find anything to read.
The one thing is, the
book used pictures for some of the words, like instead of saying
spider, there'd randomly be a tiny picture of a spider, and that threw
me off a bit (aka, I stared the page for a good thirty seconds trying
to figure out what the heck it was...). But you get used to that after
a while, and it's they were mostly when Naomi was the narrator.
That
brings me back to another thing I did like, the switch in narrators.
There were at least six different narrators, but each of them had their
own unique voice, so that you could tell exactly who was telling you
what was happening. And it wasn't confusing at all like that can so
easily be.
Conclusion: A very good read, good for a crabby mood.
I'd recommend this to older readers, though, as there is some mature
content. Not much swearing, though, which is cool. Four roses.
*Reprinted from http://lainahastoomuchsparetime.blogspot.com/ with author's permission.
Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Summary (from the publisher's website, because the thing on the back of the book is really, really long): NAOMI AND ELY ARE BEST FRIENDS. Naomi loves and is in love with Ely, and Ely loves Naomi, but prefers to be in love
with boys. So they create their "No Kiss List" of people neither of
them is allowed to kiss. And this works fine - until Bruce. Bruce is
Naomi's boyfriend, so there's no reason to put him on the List. But Ely
kissed Bruce
even though he is boring. The result: a rift of universal proportions
and the potential end of "Naomi and Ely: the institution." Can these
best friends come back together again?
Review:
I know what you're thinking... you're thinking I'm going to say I hated
it and you're expecting me to find a half dozen things I didn't like
it. Guess what people? You're wrong. I quite liked it!
It was
really, really funny and well written, with interesting characters. I
actually read most of this when I'd first woken up, before I even
turned on the light, which shows how involved I was in it, reading in
half-light. It's a very good read for when you're in a crabby mood and
feel like you can't find anything to read.
The one thing is, the
book used pictures for some of the words, like instead of saying
spider, there'd randomly be a tiny picture of a spider, and that threw
me off a bit (aka, I stared the page for a good thirty seconds trying
to figure out what the heck it was...). But you get used to that after
a while, and it's they were mostly when Naomi was the narrator.
That
brings me back to another thing I did like, the switch in narrators.
There were at least six different narrators, but each of them had their
own unique voice, so that you could tell exactly who was telling you
what was happening. And it wasn't confusing at all like that can so
easily be.
Conclusion: A very good read, good for a crabby mood.
I'd recommend this to older readers, though, as there is some mature
content. Not much swearing, though, which is cool. Four roses.
*Reprinted from http://lainahastoomuchsparetime.blogspot.com/ with author's permission.
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