The Kissing Booth

By Beth Reekles

NOW A NETFLIX MOVIE STARRING JOEY KING AND JACOB ELORDI! Read the first book in the Kissing Booth series for some fun, fresh romance from Beth Reekles.

Meet Rochelle “Elle” Evans: pretty, popular—and never been kissed. Meet Noah Flynn: badass, volatile—and a total player.

When Elle decides to run a kissing booth at her school's Spring Carnival, she locks lips with Noah and her life is turned upside down. Her head says to keep away, but her heart wants to draw closer. This romance seems far from a fairy tale.

Is Elle headed for heartbreak or will she get her happily ever after?

Don’t miss the next two books in the series:
-The Kissing Booth #2: Going the Distance 
-The Kissing Booth #3: One Last Time (on sale August 2021)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Apr 9, 2013
• ISBN: 9780385378673

Reviews for The Kissing Booth

[sdbookhound · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Elle is best friends with Lee and has always admired Lee's brother Noah from the sidelines. Noah kisses Elle at the carnival kissing booth which sets off a series of events that change the dynamic of both of their lives. This looks like a cute little romance, but this is a YA romance for mature teens. Mature themes including sex and violent anger. I liked the idea of this book, but in the end after thinking about it I really not as sold on the finished product. Middle of the road 3 stars.

[heatherlinc · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I know this was written by a 17 year-old girl, but it just seemed to be an outpouring of all her romantic fantasies. The writing was too immature and the storyline sickly for my taste.

[emilypratt1235 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

"The Kissing Booth" By: Beth Reekles is an amazing book full of romance, and a whole lot of drama. Rochelle Evans, (aka Elle), is a junior in high school with her best friend in the whole world Lee. Lee and Elle have to decide a booth for their schools carnival. Lee has this older brother named Noah, (aka Flynn), who is a senior, straight A student, football star, ladies man, and a total flirt. Elle has a secret crush on Flynn and Flynn has a secret crush on Elle. They both kind of flirt with each other back and forth without even knowing it. Lee an Elle end up running a kissing booth for the school carnival because pretty much everything else was taken. Elle and Lee find people to run the booth but all the girls want them to try and get Flynn to be a worker in the booth but he refused every time. The day of the carnival came and everything was going fine until Flynn showed up and chickened out on kissing him so Elle had to fill in. Elle and Noah kissed and they booth felt sparks within the kiss. Of course after the kiss they ended up dating, but they kept it a secret from everybody, especially Lee. Eventually Lee found out and all three of them got into a huge fight. Lee and Elle made up. Prom came along and Noah showed up and asked Elle to the dance. She said yes and they told Lee and everything came out good. This book is one of the greatest books I have ever read. It consists of all my favorite genre's of books. Romance, drama, and a little bit of mystery. The purpose of the title "The Kissing Booth" is all of the drama that happens in the book relates to the kissing booth. For example, if Elle and Flynn did not kiss at the kissing booth the night of the carnival, none of the drama of them dating, them sneaking around, and the fight between Lee, Elle and Noah would have never happened. The theme of the book is person vs. person and person vs. self. It is person vs. person because Elle has to hide all this stuff from her friend when it is frustrating. It's also person vs. self because she has to hide her relationship with this boy who she really likes from her friend when she want to tell him. This book is really good and I suggest this as a book to be read by everybody. It's amazingly well written. I never wanted to put it down when I started reading it. I really enjoy Beth Reekles writing very much and hope other readers do also.

[corazie · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is more of a 3.5 than a 4.

This book was pretty sweet.

I'd recommend this book to younger teens. It's the kind of story I would have lapped up when I was thirteen and fourteen, very fluffy and girly.

I certainly got exasperated at points. I couldn't understand why she (or anyone!) wanted to be with Noah: he was definitely a bully. Threatening and physically hurting other guys just for talking to her? I beg your pardon? He controlled her love life and she never even knew, then when she did find she seemed not to care.

Read this book for nostalgic feelings of being a teeny-bopper who thinks being 16-18 is the best thing ever. Nevertheless, I look forward to reading what Beth Reekles' comes up with in the future.

The kind of story I would have LOVED when I was a young teen.

Thank you to Random House and Net Galley for a copy of this in exchange for an honest review.

PS. Drink a cheap and nasty alcopop with this, like a VK or something. Or even some Lambrini. Re-live your under-age-drinking years.

[michealabeth · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book was so good!Sure, It has its issues like any book does. There were a few mistakes here and there with grammar and some British slang was used, but the content made up for any of that. Personally, I like my books with a perfectly happy ending all wrapped up with a nice little bow on top. But Beth Reekles' The Kissing Booth definitely made its way onto my list of favorite books.Noah Flynn is by far the best book character I've read about in years. Most romance books have "the guy"; That guy who is so perfect it's just unrealistic. Thankfully, Beth Reekles did not give us "the guy". She gave us Noah. He is over-protective, way too jealous, a violence junkie, and a major jerk sometimes; but that is what made him perfect. <3I was also quite happy that the author didn't make The Kissing Booth into your typical clishe romance. She kept it original. It had flirting, teasing, the BEST of friends, great characters, and it was just an all around great read.In a sense, It was perfect. <3I'm definitely looking forward to many more books by Beth Reekles.

[laneliterati · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is the story of Elle Evans. She falls for her best friend Lee's, older brother Noah. It is a sweet, romantic yet edgy story. I'd recommend it but have a care that there are some typos and Elle can be a bit grating on the nerves at times.

[katherineb729 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

After a friend telling me that this book was amazing constantly, I decided to just get it from my local library. I wasn’t particularly loving the cover but with trust in my best friend, I started the book. It was amazing. I loved it. I was so happy with the heart-warming story. Only problem was the ending. It felt way too clique and I was expecting more. However, overall, a good book which kept me occupied…

[laurenkathryn · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The reason for the three star rating? It made me smile. Honestly. If a book can get my warm and fuzzy feelings to resurface for a while, it definitely did it's job somewhere along the line.

Yes, it wasn't brilliantly written, nor will it blow most of the population out the water in a literary sense; but I liked it. :) It was exactly what I would have lapped up as a teenager, and, as sad as it is to admit, is more or less what I used to daydream about happening to me (such a loser!) This is why I liked it as much as I did - it struck a cord with me.

But, if we put my clear sadness aside and actually looked at this in-depth, there were a few issues...

A lot of people have slated this as ridiculous as they do not believe that Elle, a sixteen year old girl, would be doing what was described in this book. To some extent, yes, I do agree (namely having sex in about two days of getting to know a guy) but I used to go to house parties when I was this age. Drinking was involved, but not to extent that we got hammered on a regular basis. If the author is the same age as myself, which I believe she is, I probably think she had the same sort of experiences, which is why they were written into the storyline.

Her father didn't seem to care as much as we were made to believe. I certainly wouldn't be happy if my daughter was drinking on a regular basis, getting drunk at sixteen and sleeping with possessive men. Yes, Noah was a bit of a pratt, a bad boy, but why would you want to be with him? He was very possessive, specifically mentally, and constantly belittled you. A most definite no go. STAY AWAY.

Furthermore, Ms. Reekles, you're British, keep the story based in the UK! A lot of words were transposed into the English abbreviations (stove, trousers, sweets) and although, for the most part you based it well in America, it was kind of let down by these tiny errors.

But, who cares? My tip, don't take it too seriously. It was a lovely little read that left me with a smile on my face. Dare I say it, it was cute? (I can hear Noah rolling his eyes from here).