After the Kiss

by Terra Elan McVoy

Becca and her boyfriend, Alec, attend different schools, but they make things work-mainly by being inseparable after school and on weekends. So when Becca has to take a job at a coffee shop, she is more than a little bit insecure about what this will mean for their relationship.

Meanwhile, new-girl Camille meets a haiku-spouting boy who makes her genuinely laugh, even though she can see an all-too-familiar loneliness in him. The kiss they steal on the back deck at a party takes her by surprise and leaves her wanting more.

What Camille doesn't know is that this boy is Alec, Becca's boyfriend. And Alec doesn't know that Becca's best friend has captured The Kiss on her camera phone.

Becca and Camille have never met, but their lives will unravel and intertwine in surprising ways throughout this beautifully crafted verse novel about love, heartbreak, and trust.

• ISBN10: 1442402164
• ISBN13: 9781442402164
• Publish Date: 4 January 2011 (first published 4 May 2010)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Simon & Schuster
• Edition: Reprint ed.
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 416
• Language: English

Reviews

[layawaydragon]

Read for free on RivetedLit.Com April 2019.

One of the worst verse novels I've tried reading. A good message in the end, if you can get through the dull & hard to read book.

I skim read this. Camile's stream of conscience passages with no punctuation or capitals were unreadable. If any thing, I think more unnecessary punctuation & caps with elipses, front changes,l would be more authentic. See Tumblr shit posting lol.

Becca's wasn't much better, just scanned easier. Given she played guitar & sang, I'm surprised more didn't rhyme & flow. Can't say anything about the quality and the poetic emulation but I wasn't a fan overall.

About a third of the book is before the kiss. Not that interesting. Thought about quitting. Then came Becca's crash & the job & getting along w Mom which was alright.

Camile's ~mysteriousness~ about the dude in Chicago & getting away from her parents gave MAJOR SKEVVY VIBES. Thankfully, it turns out to be inoculus.

I wasn't even going to finish it, but the possible revenge plot, the missing money interested me enough. I still skimmed it but I skimmed to the end at least.

It turned out better & more boring than I thought. Impressive 👍

[jeannamichel]

Two girls are stuck by the consequences of Alec kissing (and thus cheating on his girlfriend) a girl.
You could title this book so many different ways now that I've read this book. It should be like something like "After the Accident," for Becca or even "After Chicago Boy," for Camille. The book was in order perfectly, going back and forth to the two characters, Becca was writing poetry that was awesome because rhyming poems are a bit overated anyway. Camille writing these texter's paragraphs (that didn't have any capitals). It was a fun book. I warn you, though, it's hard cover is pink. I don't like pink very much and it bugged me the entire time reading it...
The book, however, despite being pink was a pretty good book.