Extreme Kissing by Luisa Plaja

Synopsis:

Carlota and Bethany are best friends. Bethany is the sensible one with a long-term boyfriend, Carlota is the crazy one with a wild past and rebellious nature. All is fine in their world - apart from Carlota hating her stepdad and longing for a old flame. And apart from Bethany thinking her boyfriend is about to dump her and that her period is late...Carlota comes up with a plan to put all their troubles behind them and go on a girls-only wild day out, with only their favourite magazine to guide them through the day. If they open it on a fashion page they have to get hold of a fabulous new outfit and pretend to be models. If they open it to a page on snogging, they have to find a boy to snog. The magazine will take them everywhere they need to go - but will it help them to reveal the secrets they are keeping from each other?

Review:

I love Luisa Plaja's books, and I couldn't wait to start reading this book. It definitely lived up to my expectations! It is FANTASTIC!

Carlota is a troublesome girl who is crazy about her ex-boyfriend, and her best friend Bethany is sensible and constantly studying for GCSEs. To escape from all their worries and stressful problems, Carlota suggests to do a spontaneous trip to London - Extreme Travelling. They bring their favourite magazine, Teen Spice!, with them to take them on many adventures they will never forget. They pick a page at random and do a challenge associated with that page. For example, if it is 'Tips On Snogging' then they would have to snog two strangers by the end of the day. These challenges result is laughter, tears and consequences which had me reading all night.

I think the character differences mixed well. Opposites attract, right? Even though there are quite a few characters in this book, they all have an important role of which the story wouldn't be the same without them. I find books confusing and boring if pointless characters turn up with no personality. However, that is not the case with this book - I have a hard time choosing my favourite character!

I like how in all of LP's books we get to see the story from different peoples perspectives. Even though the two girls are keeping secrets from each other, we know how much it is killing them not to talk about.

The ending is totally unexpected. At the beginning I thought that this is going to be the typical friendship book: they break up, they make up. Towards the end it is totally unpredictable: where does the author get her ideas from?! :)

I can't recommend this enough! Read this story (or any of LP's books for that matter) if you like cute, funny, snogtastic reads. Luisa Plaja is one of my favourite authors and I am sure I speak for many.

RATE: 5/5

Publisher: Corgi

Publication date: 2nd April 2009

Pages: 327

Edition: Paperback

Source: For Review
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