
Chloe was such a fierce and wonderful main character. Casey McQuiston has a magic way of writing characters that you feel connected to and immediately root for.

I absolutely adored all of the characters. But at the same time, it was such a fun and lighthearted story with an amazing humor. This story really examines what being queer in a small southern town and a private school means, and how difficult it is to be the authentic you in such an environment. But compared to Paper Towns (which I didn’t like that much to be honest) the characters and the focus on them getting to learn who they were and how the place had shaped them, rather than just trying to understand Shara Wheeler, made it into its completely own story.Īt a first glance this might seem like a fluffy teen romcom, but there was so much more going on in I Kissed Shara Wheeler than just the scavenger hunt for clues to finding Shara there were several love stories and coming out stories, the rearranging of high school cliques and lots of realizations.


The plot’s concept was more than just a little similar to John Green’s Paper Towns, with Shara Wheeler as the mysteriously disappeared girl, and Chloe, Smith and Rory on a quest to find her.
