Review: Shut Out by Kody Keplinger

Book: Shut Out by Kody Keplinger

Pages: 273

Genre: Young Adult, Romance

Source: Library

Short Synopsis: Lissa Daniels is sick and tired of her school's rivalry between the football team and the soccer team. Lissa decides that it's up to her and the other players' girlfriends to put a stop to this madness once and for all.

My Thoughts: A cute and entertaining read about relationships and sticking together.

At hamilton High school, ever since Lissa could remember, there has always been a rivalry between the soccer players and football players. For the most part, it's always been a bunch of pranks that always seem harmless. But this year, things have gone too far. The pranks seem to be more dangerous, with people getting hurt and injured. And to top it off, Lissa's quarterback boyfriend, Randy, always seems to be ditching Lissa, to either get back at the soccer players, or to come up with a new scheme.

But Lissa has had enough. She decides that it's high and time to finally stop the stupid pranks once and for all, before someone else gets hurt. She decides to get a group of the other girlfriends' players together, and form their own resistance to the rivalry. Together, they come up with an idea to with hold any form of sex from their boyfriends, anytime one of the boys start to form a plan of getting back at the other team. It all becomes an all out war with boys against girls, but Lissa never dreamed that she'd be caught in the middle as well.

I loved the plot of this book. With a battle against the sexes, it was definitely an entertaining read. It was interesting to read both views of the boys and girls and how their minds worked as far as the issue of withholding sex goes.

In the beginning, the main character Lissa, seems a bit like the shy and quiet type. It was interesting to see how she transformed through out the process. Chloe, her best friend, had excellent view points of how women and men were treated with the issue of sex. But unfortunately, I also found her to be quite bossy and annoying at times. The main character that bugged me the most was Randy, when he expected everything to go back to the way they were, whenever he made a mistake. He was quite a jerk when he mistreated Lissa, and was still determined to be with her.

It was also kind of annoying that though the strike had been for a good cause to end the rivalry, Lissa had used its excuse in the end to make it all about her, and prolonged it as she did. All in all, a pretty interesting read about the battle of the sexes.

Would I recommend this book: Yes

Rating: I give this book a 3.5/5.