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“I really wanted to love The International Kissing Club. Seeing the world is my new niche and I’m looking forward to traveling in college. However I found this book to be very lacking on the “international” side while instead loaded with plenty of “kissing”. I ended up disappointed. That isn’t to say IKC wasn’t a good book, it was. It just wasn’t a great one.
Jess D wrote this review Monday, January 30, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Let’s start with my compliments. IKC has all the requirements of a short, chick lit book. There is humor, boys, drama and plenty of kisses. Cassidy, Piper, Mei and Izzy are relatable and sweet. Plus they come from Texas! Who doesn’t like Texas? It was the perfect hometown setting to pick. Plus the ending was great, very funny. I found myself chuckling.
On the other hand, there are many plot lines left open in IKC. I suppose with having four different girls, it would be difficult to write one ending. Still, I found myself dissatisfied. With three authors, such a thing should be possible. Not to mention, while the girls are funny, they’re each extremely similar to each other in what they say and how they act. I hate to say it, but their characters were a bit flat. What depth they had was brief, and it occurred overseas. Don’t let me forget the relationships between the IKC girls and the boys either. Even Mei, supposedly shy Mei, jumped all over the chance to kiss a foreign boy. Wouldn’t at least one of the girls hesitate or be nervous? Hell, not to knock myself, but if a boy was about to kiss me for the first time, I’d be petrified with worry.
Nonetheless this was a cute book, not fantastic, but a nice one. This is a book I’d suggest waiting to read until it comes out in paperback. While it may not be worth $16.99, it’s worth $7.99.
~Jess”“Full review on Reader's Dialogue: http://readersdialogue.blogspot.com/2012/01/international-kissing-club.html
Esther Shaindel B wrote this review Wednesday, January 18, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
With depth and meaning, but awash with flirtatious fun as well, The International Kissing Club ROCKS!”
“I am a sucker for any book that contains international travel. I studied abroad in London for the first half of 2011 and ever since then, I am full of wanderlust and I gobble up movies and books about going abroad. The International Kissing Club by Ivy Adams was right up my alley.
Tara wrote this review Tuesday, January 17, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
I loved reading about Piper, Cassidy, and Mei's time abroad in their various places, and even Izzy, being stuck in Texas, was adorable. Mei's story particularly was probably the most interesting to me - I really admired her for taking the risk of going to China to learn more about her birth parents and her own culture.
And Cassidy's story in Australia - I felt like she really grew a lot from the experience, perhaps the most of any of the girls.
I loved reading about Piper in Paris - the descriptions of Paris really made me nostalgic and I just wanted to jump into the page. Unfortunately I couldn't stand Piper or the guy she meets. I felt sorry for in the beginning, but once we got to know her, I just...blah. But the other characters - Cassidy, Mei, and Izzy - were much more relatable and likable.
Overall, I thought The International Kissing Club was cute and a fun adventure. I recommend it to anyone as obsessed with international travel as I am, and fans of contemporaries. ”
“When the novel opened, I was not impressed... but that quickly changed. It took a few chapters for the speed to pick up, but once it did, I was completely hooked.
I Like These Books wrote this review Wednesday, December 28, 2011. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
After an extremely embarrassing incident leaves Piper in constant torment, she, with the help of her three best friends; Izzy, Mei and Cassidy, come up with the International Kissing Club (or IKC for short). They plan to each take part in their school's international exchange program; Piper to Paris (the real one), Mei to China, Izzy to Costa Rica and Cassidy to Australia. Their plan? To rack up as many kisses as possible - one point for each boy, three points if the kiss is epic. They create a Facebook page to keep track of it all and to stay in touch... Little did they know how different of an experience it would be then they'd thought, and little did they know how much their adventures would change their friendship.
This book is definitely more towards the "cute" label, but I was surprised by how much depth the authors (Ivy Adams is a pseudonym for three co-authors) were able to weave into a seemingly light plot. The characters each come from their own versions of dysfunction, and they each are met with unexpected challenges. I was happy to see that this novel was much more than a fun plot, this book really surprised me in that way.
My only real criticism kind of goes two ways... The novel switches POV (if that is even the correct term... it is a third person narrator) from all four characters each chapter. I was split between loving getting to know and experience each character's story and being confused and frustrated with the changes. In the chapters you get really caught up in one's story, then you are shoved into someone else's and forced to wait three more chapters to see what happens next. But maybe I only felt this way because I favored Cassidy...
So overall, I'd say definitely read it, I really enjoyed it.
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“3.5 out of 5 rating
Purplg8r wrote this review Sunday, December 18, 2011. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Even though this book made a snarky reference to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants book series, I found that the premise was kind of the same (minus the kissing part in the Sisterhood books). But I liked that series, so I was hoping to like this one too. Plus the girls used aliases of Disney Princesses, and anyone who knows me knows that I am obsessed with Disney and the Princesses, so I just HAD to like this book. And I did!
Yes, it was cheesy. And kind juvenile-ish, with the whole premise being about how many boys they could each kiss. But it was also a little deeper and dealt with friendships too. So while its not going to win any awards, it was nice to just sit back and enjoy a book, a kind of guilty pleasure one!
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“Fun, flirty and with a very liberal amount of kissing spread through out, The International Kissing Club is an adorable novel exploring the farthest reaches of friendship. Told in the third person following four best friends as they go their separate ways in the student exchange program, The International Kissing Club is an easy read with something for everyone.
Amber M wrote this review Tuesday, December 6, 2011. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
The four friends in this novel are different from each other in all the best ways but love each other so fiercely that they can get through anything. Piper is the artist with a flair for the dramatics and more than a little boy crazy, Mei is the practical brainy star student, Cassidy is the sports guru and Izzy is the green friendly hippie. Following each of these girls around the world was a pleasure as they all had life lessons to learn. I originally thought I'd identify with Piper but I ended up really liking Izzy which is odd since I'm so not like her. I like how each character was stretched to their limit and forced to change in order to help them when the got back into town.
Ivy Adams is a pen name for three separate authors who came together to write this book. I always find author collaborations interesting so this was no exception. I could tell where one author started and the other ended. As a result, I felt like I got the best of each author in the prose. I've made it no secret that I'm not a fan of third person but this one was done well enough that it didn't bother me, I liked that the voice stayedconsistent throughout each chapter yet it was also tailored to the person the narrator was following. For instance, Mei's chapters had very sensible metaphors whereas Piper's were a bit more dreamy. The voice overall kept a fun light tone, even when the girls were learning some serious life lessons.
The plot was quite good. I couldn't figure out where the story was going until it finally got there. I do wish the chapters hadn't jumped around so much. One chapter Piper had landed in Paris (France) and in her next one she'd been there for almost four weeks. I felt like sometimes we were just told things instead of actually shown them which did get me a bit frustrated. For instance, Mei talks about these two mean girls but we only ever see them in a scene once and supposedly they terrorize her for the rest of her trip. Regardless, I really liked the concept for this book. The girls used a social media site to try to stay closer together and I liked that at the end of each chapter we got to see the Facebook page and some of its updates. It was definitely one of the highlights for me.
Germaine was deliciously evil. I couldn't believe what happens to poor Piper in the beginning of the novel and how Germaine is able to get the friends again. My biggest thing is that I wanted to see Germaine punished and she wasn't. I know in real life sometimes the bad guys win but I like my fiction to give the baddies a huge dose of their own medicine and I didn't see the happen to her. I really wish it would have. I dealt with her evilness only because I knew she had it coming but then she never got hers. It made me sad.
The destinations were glamorous which I loved and the kissing scenes were knock-your-socks off good! I really liked all the guys the girls kissed. I think my favorite smooch goes to Mei (though I could be biased as she is stopping by the blog a bit later on). I knew that some of the relationships had to end because they were all foreign exchange students but I didn't know which ones I wanted that to happen for. I liked them all so much! I also liked the humor in this story because they mention The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants which was what came to my mind when I read the summary for this novel.
The International Kissing Club utilizes a fun, flirty voice to tell a great story about the bonds of friendship and how far they can stretch. There's a character for everyone to identify with and plenty of sexy smooching to keep the pace going. While it did have a few snags for me, I have to say that over all I really enjoyed it. I'd defintiely "like" The IKC Facebook page any day of the week!”
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