Book review: Shut Out by Kody Keplinger

Shut out

Written by:  Kody Keplinger

Publisher:  Poppy

Release date: September 4, 2011

Pages:  273

Description:

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 with the soccer team or to prank their locker room. 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

Then 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. But what Lissa never sees coming is her own sexual tension with the leader of the boys, Cash Sterling...

My Thoughts:

I went into this book not reading the description.  I assumed it was about a girl making it on the boys football team and the hardships if guys not wanting her on the team.  Instead it was about a girl tired of the rivalry between the football team and the soccer team because it affected her relationship with her boyfriend.

I very much liked the concept of the sex strike involved in this story and the scenes in the library/ scenes with cash.  This was a great story in seeing how. The girls came together and all the boys came together despite their status/team in the school. I thought it was entertaining.

I rated this book 4 out of 5 stars on goodreads.

This is my second book by Kody Keplinger (the first being The Duff). I'm looking forward to reading more of her books.