Release date: February 4, 2010

Publisher: Razorbill

From: Bookstore

Summary:
When the principal announces that every senior must participate in a mandatory year-long Marriage Education program, Fiona Sheehan believes that her life can’t get any worse. Then she marries her “husband”: Jerky jock Todd, whose cheerleader girlfriend, Amanda, has had it in for Fiona since day one of second grade. Even worse? Amanda is paired with Fiona’s long-term crush, Gabe. At least Fiona is doing better than her best friend, Marcie, who is paired up with the very quiet, very mysterious Johnny Mercer. Pranks, fights, misunderstandings, and reconciliations ensue in an almost Shakespearean comedy of errors about mistaken first impressions, convoluted coupling, and hidden crushes.

*****

A Match Made In High School was pretty much exactly what I expected, not really anything more or less. It was cute, it was funny, it was everything you would expect in a YA chick-lit novel.

Fiona Sheehan is not a lucky person. Instead of starting her senior year on a good note, she is paired with Todd Harding for the dumbest course of the year, marriage education. They can’t stand each other and they have to be “married” for a year. If they don’t cooperate, they don’t graduate. What’s even worse is that her crush is paired with Todd’s cheerleader girlfriend and her best friend is paired with big, goofy Johnny Mercer. Before the year is out things will get pretty crazy and they might just learn things about each other that they never would have expected.

So, A Match Made In High School was a little less predictable than some other chick-lit books. I couldn’t really guess who Fiona would end up with but in the end, I liked who it was. It was also a lot more witty than most. Fiona and Todd’s bickering was hilarious. The one thing that they could agree on was to hate each other and it kept me laughing.

The characters weren’t anything special, though. Fiona was kind of selfish, Marcie was a bitch at some points, Todd was a dick, Gabe was okay, and Johnny was sweet. They all did some growing and changing throughout the story but nothing spectacular. There were things I liked about all of them and things I hated about all of them.

Overall, A Match Made In High School was a hilarious story of love in high school. It was honest and cute. I can’t wait for more from debut author, Kristin Walker!

Writing: 9/10

Characters: 9/10

Plot: 9/10

Ending: 9/10

Originality: 8/10

Overall: 44/50=B+

Cover: 8/10=B-