Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Beautiful Naomi and and gorgeous gay Ely have been best friends forever. Together, they create a No Kiss List, a list of all the boys that are off-limits for kissing. But when Ely kisses Naomi's boyfriend, a major rift is caused in their friendship. Naomi realizes that the rift isn't because Ely stole her boyfriend, but because she realizes that Ely will never love her the way she wants him to.

Because of strong langauge and sexual exploration, this book is for older teens. They will appreciate the different conflicts and the older characters (Naomi and Ely are college freshmen).

The book changes point of view every chapter, so it is important to pay attention to who is speaking. No Kiss List has its own style of writing that is very unique from other books. A character's thought will lead to another thought, will lead to another, and then another. The book is written like that, as if you were in Naomi's head as opposed to a 3rd person narrative.

The only problem I had with the style of writing was Naomi's chapters had little symbols to represent the word. For example, "We're more about a [picture of book] in bed, then turn out the light, and [smiley with zzz's]--just sleep--'til he leaves in the morning for his [picture with clock set to 9:30] accounting class."

For me, the pictures tend to stop the flow of the sentence because I have to stop what I'm reading and squint to understand the picture, as they are shrunken down to the size of the text.

Other than that, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List was a good, quick read. What kept me going was the question of what the ending was going to be like. I really wanted to see how the characters relationships would be resolved, and the ending was pretty satisfying.

The cover of the book is so cute! Check it out: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0375844406/ref=dp_image_0/102-0330936-2081706?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books

Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List was written together by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan.

Visit Rachel Cohn's website at http://www.rachelcohn.com/, and visit David Levithan's website at http://www.davidlevithan.com/

AND visit the No Kiss List website http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/nokisslist/index.php

Buy the book now on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Naomi-Elys-No-Kiss-List/dp/0375844406/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201648908&sr=8-1