Shut Out

Today’s post is on Shut Out by Kody Keplinger. It is 273 pages long and is published by Little, Brown, and Company. The cover is a close up the main characters' face. The intended reader is young adult. There is mild foul language, talk of sex and sexuality, and no violence. The story is told from first person close. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the back of the book- 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 or haze a freshman. 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 her own sexual tension with the leader of the boys? Lissa never sees it coming. In this hilarious and romantic reimagining in of Aristosphanes’ Lysistrata, the battle of boys against girls is on.

Review- In this very clever retelling of Lysistrata Keplinger gives the reader a very nice treat. There are lots of to like about this book. The honest way that the characters talk about sex, the sweet romance, the lack of actual teen sex, and the fast moving plot. I do not dislike anything about this book. The characters are interesting, fun, and they tackle the hard issues of the book is very honest and feels very real to life. Lissa is trying to be the perfect girlfriend but her boyfriend is not helping her with that. He is not very considerate to her feelings and that is why we have our plot. Our real hero is a nice guy who does care about the way that the girls feel, not just Lissa. He wants people to stop getting hurt too and decided to the guys together to win the girls back. There is some back and forth between the two groups and Lissa has to learn to both stand up for herself and when to bend for the other person. This is a great book and I had a really great time reading it, I recommend it.

I give this book a Five out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this book from my local library.