Amelia's Book Room: Kissing Vanessa

Every once and a while I like to just pick a random book off the library shelf; I've found some good ones this way, such as Guitar Highway Rose, which turned out to be one of my favorite books. And, this week, I've got another good find: Simon Cheshire's Kissing Vanessa!

Kevin Watts is your average wallflower; he's not the guy your eyes would immediately snap to when surrounded by his classmates. He prefers to keep to himself and spend time working on his photography. But when a new girl comes to school, the beautiful, smart, photographically talented Vanessa Wishart, he finds himself falling head-over-heels for her, and his only hope of catching her attention? Standing out from the crowd.

With the maybe-not-so-helpful help of his best friend Jack, Kevin tries to make himself appeal to Vanessa. But he has a lot to learn about love--and girls--including that most people like you best when you're just being yourself. Kevin is a quirky and lovable protagonist, and Cheshire drops the poor guy into a lot of painfully awkward situations that make you almost squeeze your eyes shut in horror, yet keep you turning the pages to see Kevin to the hopefully happy end of his quest.

This is a quick and fun read, and I enjoyed it a lot; I hope you will too! A quick announcement; we will be starting the Dekoposh Book Club back up in August! Next month we'll be reading Carl Hiaasen's latest young adult novel, Scat! If you liked the previous two, Hoot and Flush, this one's sure to be good.

Happy reading!