This meme is brought to you weekly by MizB over at Should Be Reading.
Anyone can play along, just do the following:
01. Grab your current read and open to a random page
02. Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page, but BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
03. Share the title and the author, too, so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR List if they like your teaser!
Shut Out
By Kody Keplinger
Publisher: Poppy
Publish Date: September 5, 2011
Format: Hardback, pp 288
Age Demographic: Young Adult
b&n // amazon
“I never found out what I was. Because I messed up.” (pp 218)
Most high school sports teams have rivalries with other schools. At Hamilton High, it's a civil war: the football team versus the soccer team. And for her part, Lissa is sick of it. Her quarterback boyfriend, Randy, is always ditching her to go pick a fight with the soccer team or to prank their locker room. And on three separate occasions Randy's car has been egged while he and Lissa were inside, making out. She is done competing with a bunch of sweaty boys for her own boyfriend's attention.
Lissa decides to end the rivalry once and for all: she and the other players' girlfriends go on a hookup strike. The boys won't get any action from them until the football and soccer teams make peace. What they don't count on is a new sort of rivalry: an impossible girls-against-boys showdown that hinges on who will cave to their libidos first. And Lissa never sees her own sexual tension with the leader of the boys, Cash Sterling, coming.
Inspired by Aristophanes' play Lysistrata, critically acclaimed author of The Duff (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) Kody Keplinger adds her own trademark humor in this fresh take on modern teenage romance, rivalry and sexuality.
*Summary taken from Goodreads.
I practically almost read this novel in one sitting and probably would have, if it hadn't been for my allergies frelling up and the word's starting to blur and cross, too. I LOVED THIS BOOK. Seriously, it was funny, it was frustrating, it was over-dramatic in some places, and totally catty in other's. Plus, it was boys vs girls = sex strike! And it was all sort of a modern twist to an old Greek playwrite, Lysistrata.
