The Kissing Booth

by Kate Williams (Adapter), Beth Reekles

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Elle has one more year of high school left and she has never been kissed. When she decides to make a kissing booth for the school carnival, she kisses Noah, her best friend Lee's brother, and her life changes. But Noah is older than Elle, and Lee will not be happy. Will Elle listen to her head or her heart?

Genres: Romance, Young Adult

80 pages, Paperback

Published May 14, 2020

Reviews

[Danii · Rating 1 out of 5]

Wattpad was living his best moment

[Selma Ploeg · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have not read the original version of this book, just the abridged version because I thought I might use it in school. That's not going to happen because I did not like the story at all.
I hadn't heard of the concept of a kissing booth before, but it seems immensely outdated and sexist. As does the whole book. I actually checked when it was written, expecting it to be somewhere late 80s. ..

[Noemi · Rating 5 out of 5]

As I started to read “The Kissing Booth” it got to my attention from the background information it stated, and how I saw I was a type of love story romance type of book. It caught my eye and as soon as I started to read it got my interest and how it talked about how Elle decided to run a kissing booth it all started from there. Elle and Lee had a project to do and they both thought it would be a great idea to do a kissing booth. That was lead on to Elle and Noah getting together with Elle and Lee have a set of rules that they cannot date each other family relatives, which was rule #9 “relative’s of your best friends are off-limits” which made a major impact on Elle and Lee once Lee found out that Elle was keeping that a secret until he saw Elle and Noah kissing. The story teaches plenty of morals and shows how friendship is one of the most important vowels as well how trust comes in. It caught to my attention how Lee accepted that Elle liked his brother it did make him upset but we understood what was happening, he supported her just like one of the tbh other rules they had, #18 “Always be happy for your besties successes.” which he was. It definitely took Lee a while to finally accept what Elle and Noah had but he was at last happy for her. Overall the book was amazing and definitely would recommend reading it, you get a lot from it and see how strong a true friendship is. For the previous reason and if you enjoy love novels I sure believe this is a book you must read

[Morgan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I started reading this book because of the movies but it isn't even close to the same. It started out fine but then just kept getting worse as I went along. I actually never finished it and just stopped because of how it was getting. Noah is the bad guy as he is a possessive player and doesn't care about anyone. It was also getting really cheesy with Noah saying stuff like "You're the only girl that doesn't fall at my feet and it drives me crazy" or something stupid like that. I'm only giving it a 3 stars because I like the movie. I wouldn't recommend if you can't handle cheesy books.

[Sophia Gerbino · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was adorable! It had me hooked from the first page. I did get a ton of second hand embarrassment from Elle, but that's ok. That's how I know the book is good because it let's me feel what the characters are feeling. Totally recommend!!

[Deen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Should've tried to read it when I was younger.

[Turilli Francesca · Rating 5 out of 5]

dico solo che noah è un bellissimo ragazzo

[⋆˚𝜗𝜚˚⋆ Sienna ⋆˚𝜗𝜚˚⋆ · Rating 1 out of 5]

hated the movie…hated the book

[Symphoricalpus Albus · Rating 5 out of 5]

Elle ja Lee on samal ajal sündinud ja on nagu õde ja vend sünnist peale. Elle on Lee vanemast vennast Noahst sisse võetud ja vice versa, aga keegi ei tea seda päriselt. Kooli ürituse jaoks teevad Elle ja Lee Kissing Booth teemalise rahakogumise koha, kus Elle satub Lee venda Noaht suudlema. Seal saab alguse nedne vastastikune tõmme ja salasuhe. Raamat on lihtne, dialoog kohati sisutu ja Elle poolne osa täiesti tühi vahel. Murelikuks teevad kohad, kus Noah ei suud aoma ägesut ja kallaleminekuid kontrollida, kuid korra, kui Elle poole naeratab ja suudleb, on selle jalad jälle nõrgad. Ok, see on raamat 17-aastastest naiivsetest noortest, ses suhtes ongi olustik autentne ja armas oli lugeda, nagu oleks ajas tagasi läinud, kerge oli mõista neid situatsioone ja seda koolielu, mitte, et endal oleks olnud selline, aga just nende õpilaste seisukohast, kudias nad tunnevad, mis neile oluline on, ebakindlused, armumised, suured tunded. See kõik oli üsna päris. Kuna lugesin raamatu kahe päevaga läbi ja elasin nende armuloole väga kaasa, annan 5 punkti. Kui on igav ja aega, võib uuesti lugeda.

[Casey Campodonico · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stupendous