Confessions of a Serial Kisser
by Wendelin Van Draanen

    CONFESSIONS OF A SERIAL KISSER by Wendelin Van Draanen
    Category:  Contemporary
    Age Recommendation:  Grades 9+
    Release Date:  5/13/08
    Publisher:  Knopf
    Reviewed by:  Sally Kruger, aka "Readingjunky"
    Rating:  5 Stars


    Imagine how life might change if you were cleaning under your mother's bed and discovered her stash of steamy
    romance novels and her latest self-help book.  That is just what happens to Evangeline Logan.

    Evangeline can sort of understand the presence of this collection of reading material since her father recently divorced
    her mother in favor of another love interest.  Forgiving her father is something Evangeline has not even considered.
    She has watched the hell her mother has gone through and wants nothing more than to move on.

    Normally, Evangeline wouldn't be interested in reading trashy novels, but one caught her eye and promptly changed
    her life.  Now Evangeline is in search of "the crimson kiss."  The way it is so romantically described, she knows her
    life will not be complete until she experiences it.

    The problem starts when Evangeline begins feeling the need to kiss everyone.  The fascination with finding this
    wonderful kiss leads her into some pretty horrible kissing situations.  There are kisses with way too much pressure,
    kisses with more than enough moisture, and kisses that totally miss their mark.  For Evangeline, this kissing experiment
    seems like a bit of fun, but when she mistakenly kisses her best friend's crush, she realizes that things have gotten
    terribly out of control.

    Wendelin Van Draanen, author of SWEAR TO HOWDY and FLIPPED, will have readers laughing aloud when they
    read about Evangeline.  But CONFESSIONS OF A SERIAL KISSER goes farther than kissing and telling; it offers
    a serious side as Evangeline learns how to handle what life has thrown at her.