A) I like multiple POVs but GEEZ there are a lot. Don't I make impassioned speeches about the overratedness of Jodi Picoult for such things?

but

B) Wow I like the exploration of sexuality (and how fluid it is) so so so much.

C) A book about 19/20 year olds is very interesting in the way that there are very rarely books about this age in this genre. I think most books I've read about 19 year olds are literary fiction.

D) OH NO YOU DID NOT MAKE ME JUST ALMOST CHOKE UP WITH A SENTENCE ABOUT KIRSTY MacC More...

I like Rachel Cohn (Gingerbread, Shrimp, and Cupcake). I like the title and description of this young adult novel. But I do not like this book.

Why? I should like it. It's told from different points of view. It's full of young adult angst and conflict. But none of the characters are likable.

Naomi is gorgeous and attached at the hip to Ely, her neighbor and best friend, who also happens to be gay. They've been best friends for as long as they can remember, and Naomi still envisions them getting ma More...

Jesus Christ, I hate this book. I want to curse and scream and use caps throughout this review, but I won't. David Leviathan is the worst freaking writer ever. Rachel Cohn isn't much better -- in fact she might be WORSE. This is what happens when two idiots decide to write a book without discussing anything previously, and then mix their idiot juice into the pages by throwing a bunch of annoying random characters into an already convoluted plot.

Ely is a huge jerk, and Naomi is a moron. As for Na More...

This book is not only worse than Twilight but it might be the worst book I've ever read. None of the characters get any of my sympathy. There is no plot. The POV jumps back and forth to characters that add nothing to the story. The use of profanities is unneeded and makes it seem like a 13 year old on drugs wrote it as a fan fiction assignment.

Usually I can find positive things to say about books but there is nothing positive I can say about this one.

I've read Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist More...

Cohn and Levithan team up once more and hit the streets of New York with a new cast of tangible, expressive teens. Not as good as Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (but let's be honest, how can you get much better than Nick and Norah?), but still an amazing story in its own right, Naomi and Ely found an honored spot on my YA bookshelf.

Naomi and Ely thought they were totally safe with their No Kiss List. Naomi can ogle every hot guy she sees and still save herself for when Ely realizes they ar More...

Another Cohn/Levithan collaboration that manages to be funny and sweet and hopeful and nasty and sexy and romantic. I'm generally too lazy to write book reviews, but I will share three of my favorite quotes:

1. "Ely is probably right. The best I'll ever get is if I fuck me. In fact, I've tried, but masturbation turns out to be hella time-consuming with not very satisfactory results. Or maybe I'm just doing it wrong. My work ethic has always been weak."

2. "'We're going to a drag version of Lilith More...

3.5 stars. I was excited to read a book with one of the title characters sharing my first name. Unfortunately, I couldn't stand this Naomi until the last twenty pages of the book. I especially hated how she was always writing in symbols instead of words. Maybe teens would like it, but it drove me up the wall. I also couldn't quite get behind her complete and total delusion in thinking that she was going to grow up and marry her (very) gay best friend. It was a little too much like Will & Gra More...

This book was really funny!!!! :P
I had one problem, though---for such a short book, there were too many POV's the book was told in. Some characters only had their POV in there once--now that's pointless!

If you missed the synopsis of it: the book is about a girl who has a best friend, who's gay, and she's in love with him. Ely (the gay best friend) kisses Naomi's (his best friend that's in love with him) boyfriend, and Naomi is really greaving over Ely rather than her boyfriend, because it took T More...

I have to admit that the first few chapters were a little rocky for me. The idea that Naomi was so convinced that her delusions could become reality were hard for me to swallow. But there was something about the way the story was told that made me buy it. And once I bought it, I adored it.

I'm tempted to give this book five stars, but logically I know it is not a work of literary genius. I did, however, read it from cover to cover in a few hours without putting it down once. And I cried. And on m More...

This review can also be found at: http://loadedshelves.blogspot.co.uk/2...

After being a long time fan of the film Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, last year I discovered the book by Levithan & Cohn. I immediately read the book, followed by Dash & Lily's Book of Dares (which has since become my most adored book) and now this, the wonderful Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List.

It took me longer to get into the book than it did with the others but Levithan & Cohn are such brilliant write More...

Becareful what you wish for.

Having just finished the sublime fun of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, I decided I wanted a next read that was completely different. A genre apart. Other side of the spectrum, kind of read.

Becareful what you wish for.

David Levithan and Rachel Cohn are probably best known for Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. If you note the similarities in titles, it’s no great shock; most of their books have dual protagonists for the writing duo to work with. As with their other books More...

Every now and then, when I come off the back of something really heavy and adult, I want a little light YA fiction to cleanse my palate.
Levithan (always want to type Leviathan when I see that) and Cohen are firm favourites for me in this respect. Occupying the land somewhere between Nick at Night, John Hughes and Gregg Araki, their books are a source of incredible comfort and simplicity.

Don't we all miss the times when all you had to do was flunk out of school and care about records and these More...

This was an absolutely incredible book. I almost didn't check it out of the library, to be honest, because I thought that the title was so childish. This taught me one of life's greatest and well-known lessons - NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY IT'S COVER (or title)! It is about a colleged-aged male (Ely) and a college-aged female (Naomi). They have always been best friends, but Ely ends up being gay and Naomi is in love with him. This book is full of raw truth, raw emotion and TRUTH, which is what I loved More...

This is the second book I have read by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan and I plan on reading more (next up: Dash And Lily's Book Of Dares). I loved the story and totally feel in the love with Ely's character, but I wasn't crazy about Gabriel. I think anyone with a true bestfriend can relate to this, and it will give hope to anyone who has not yet found there specail person, whether it be a bestfriend or something more. On page 223 Ely says " There's no such thing as a soulmate" and I dissagree wi More...

To be honest, I had very high hopes for this book. Maybe that's why I didn't enjoy it as much as I wished i had. For starters let me say that this book is a great book. Especially if you're into romance and drama(; it might seem quite odd that I didn't enjoy that much but I still think it's great. Well this is because It was a very recommended book on YouTube so I decided to get it from the library, I ha nothing to lose. At the beginning of the book, it is quite confusing. You have to be complet More...

I absolutely adored Cohn and Levithan's Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares , a young adult romance partly set in The Strand, with a hefty epistolary component and a dash of screwball comedy.

I didn't enjoy Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List nearly as much, partly due to mismatched expectations. This was a rare case where I really did want to read the same-book-only-different, but Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List is a very different novel. The title plainly telegraphs the impetus of the plot: if two people nee More...

This was a good book. I have never read a David Leviathan book before and with it being coupled with Rachel Cohn, made for an interesting read.

This book taught you about friendship, first and foremost, and then truth, to yourself and others, love, acceptance....this book was about so much....

This story is about a girl named Naomi and her best friend, Ely...hence the name, Naomi and Ely....anyway...Ely is a gay teen who Naomi happens to be in love with. They have grown up with each other and are More...

I see all the low ratings, and, admittedly, they have a point.
Naomi is far from perfect. Ely is far from perfect. Neither of them are instantly lovable.
But isn't that what makes them human?!

The fact that my paperback copy of this little book has not fallen apart yet is amazing, seeing as I've read it far more times than I can count. It is a quick read, but a fantastic one. Compared to Nick and Norah's, this is far more serious (someone mentioned that it is about the tearing of a relationship as More...

Naomi and Ely have been bestfriends ever since they can remember. They live across the hall of the same building. They went through everything together and they are practically tied to each other. But then as every best friend story goes, one fell for the other, big time. And in this case, it's Naomi. Yes, she is in love with Ely.
You see, it’s not just a girl-fall-for-the-bestfriend-who-don’t-like-her-that-way-story. The twist is that the guy best friend isn’t actually a straight guy. Add in th More...

I shall defend and love this book until the day I die.

I usually hate so many POV's going from chapter to chapter, but it's such a perfectly used device here! In a city where all these very interesting characters are interconnected in some way (I'll admit, being from NYC makes me love it all the more) and how they're interconnected is so perfectly told through the tool of switching POV's among them.

They are all flawed, just like actual people. They all speak in a tone that suits who they are, whe More...

This is the 2nd collaboration between Cohn and Levithan, following Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist and preceding Dash & Lily's Book of Dares. I've never read the former (seen the movie, but I won't claim that counts), but I loved Dash & Lily, which is what led me to this one.

Naomi and Ely are best friends. They go to the same university (NYU), they live in the same apartment building, they spend precious little time apart. But a long-brewing tension caused by Naomi's failure to acc More...

This review is also posted on my blog, In The Good Books.

Naomi both loves and is in love with Ely. Ely loves Naomi, but prefers to be in love with other boys. They have a No Kiss List of people neither of them can kiss - a kind of insurance against a drama breaking them up.

There's no reason to put Naomi's boyfriend, Bruce, on the list. But when Ely kisses Bruce, no No Kiss List can prevent their break up.

The bright and minimalistic cover of this book was what first got my attention, and that I'd More...

Naomi and Ely are the best of friends, but then this is complicated by a love... heptagon. With at least one diagonal. :)

No, actually, that summary doesn't at all do the book justice - Cohn and Levithan have come up with a cast of unique and engaging characters. The ridiculously multiple points of view were, for me, a plus - it kind of threw me off in the beginning, but as the story progressed, I enjoyed being able to see the action from more than one angle and have a basically omniscient view More...

This is the second collaborative novel from Cohn and Levithan – both authors that I adore. I went into this book with high expectations as I have really enjoyed the previous co-written novel as well as many of their individual novels. They did not disappoint.

Naomi and Ely, best friends from an early age, are like one entity and feel like a part of them is missing if the other is not around. The friendship between the two is one of comedy, spontaneity and uniqueness. Naomi loves Ely in more than More...

If I had a cheerleading uniform and a pair of pom poms, I’d break them out right now so I could show David Levithan and Rachel Cohn just how much I love their work. I’d cheer, I’d jump, hell I might even attempt some of those crazy backward flip things. I’d definitely concoct a cheesy rhyme that I could shout at the top of my lungs that outlines my enthusiasm and appreciation. Yes, I’d go to THAT much effort.

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (their first collaborative novel) was so supremely pe More...

Rachel Cohn and David Levithan have teamed up again to write another ultra-hip teen romance (see Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist). And could we please have a new one every year?

BFFs Naomi & Ely are freshman at NYU but are still living with their parents in apartments across the hall from each other (in order to save cash, keep their parents together emotionally, but also – more importantly – to remain fused at the hip).

Naomi is dating Bruce the 2nd (we also meet Bruce the 1st) but secret More...

Yeah, so that book didn't work for me at all

Naomi and Ely are best friends. Naomi is also in love with Ely, but Ely is gay. When Ely kisses Naomi's boyfriend, their friendship is on the brink of being destroyed. Naomi and Ely are also very superficial and superhip people surrounded by people who listen to hip music and read hip comic books plus there's some ~quirky~ parts in there as well to make it especially interesting.

I'm sorry, I'm being mean. But the thing is, while this was a quick read More...

I'm being /extremely/ charitable with my rating. There were so many problems with this book, it made me question the 'amazingness' of these authors last book, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, which was one of my favorite books. Let's start off the the glaring issue what smacks you in the face the minute you open the book. The completely useless point of views. Who the hell is Kelly and why do I care about what she thinks about the conflict? Why, oh why, is the doorman making playlist that tel More...