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Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Read: For the Literary Goddesses book club
Source: Sacramento Library
Finished: 1/26/11
Rating: 4 out of 10
Publisher: Knopf
Pages: 256
Originally Published: 2008
Synopsis: NYU freshmen Naomi and Ely have been BFF’s since the cradle. Their friendship has even survived an affair between Naomi’s dad and one of Ely’s moms. But all that changes when Ely impetuously kisses Bruce, Naomi’s boyfriend. When Bruce decides he wants to be with Ely, Naomi is forced to confront the romantic feelings she’s always had for her best friend, despite their shared preference for boys. Naomi’s chapters are littered with icons that are more distracting than engaging, but teens will be be burning the CD playlists swapped between characters even before the book ends.
Overall Impression: Some friends and I have joined together to create an online book club, dubbed Goddesses of All Things Literary. This is the first book I read as a part of the book club, and to be honest, I only finished it because I was really enjoying the process of discussing the book in blog format. Other than that I pretty much hated the characters. All of them. Very few redeeming qualities, even at the end. The writing was good in parts, overwraught and trying-to-hard in others. My thoughts are more clearly spelled out here, in our book club discussions:
Chapters 1 – 6
Chapters 7 – 12
Chapters 13 – 18
Chapters 19 – end
Positives: A few gems — “There’s no such thing as a soulmate…and who would want there to be? I don’t want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.”
Negatives: I seriously hated every selfish person in this book. Which was everyone.
Other books I’ve read by Rachel Cohn or David Levithan: none
Other blogger opinions:
Jen (As Told By Jen): “I found myself faced with a dilemma – I couldn’t stand Naomi and Ely, but I really liked a couple of the other characters, and I liked the writing style.”
Kelly (KellyVision): “…but was just not thrilled with this one…The last chapter of this book completely saved it, though. It was sweet and smart and funny.”
RaiderGirl (An Adventure in Reading): “In fact, it took a while to get past the hip, snarky conversations between Naomi and Ely, but eventually, I really liked the book and the lessons learned by our main characters.”
