Book Review: A Match Made in High School by Kristin Walker

A Match Made in High School by Kristin Walker

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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.


EXTREMELY HILARIOUS. I had a gut-busting, knee-slapping, informal side-splitting moments reading this book. The story is simple, the concept of the plot is not complicated but the prose and characters were so much fun. Fiona, the protagonist was not the common pretty&talented-but-she-doesn’t-know-it never-been-touched girl, but she is the latter plus someone else entirely new. She’s hilariously real and confident and proud of who she is. She speaks her mind and she’s just so much fun. She’s not perfect and she made a lot of mistake, believe me when I say a lot-it means plenty (more than one) all throughout the book, but what’s nice is that she came out humble and totally coved her ego. I salute ya girl! Todd was a complete jerk at the start but then once you got to know him, you’ll know he’s not the stereotyped brainless jock. Also Amanda, she has some issues but she turned out to be pretty okay. Marcie the BFF= I hated her sometime in the story, but lately I’ve come to terms that situations such as that happen. The story’s marriage education idea was very unusual and stupid, frankly. I was like “seriously?”, I know the objective and purpose of it and it’s good, but the mechanics of it all, being year-long,etc is just being way over the top. I have to admit the ending had me surprised. I had a few guesses in the beginning, and some were right but some were just so far away from the truth..
In the end, I liked how the characters learned how to like each other in their own weird ways (love-hate relationship),etc. Even in this funny book, I found some lessons. Friendships run around companionship, common ground, fun, misunderstandings, issues and there’s also forgiveness, no matter what. The past must belong to the past.. Also we must own our mistakes, and build ourself up on it and make it a foundation, and we’ll run to greater heights (okay, a bit over). But, with owning our mistakes, we humble down and take responsibility too, but we also have, to a point defend ourselves for what we believe is right. I also learned NOT to really judge the outside of a person, like some guys (even those whom you’ve liked for a long time) really turns out to be jerks, and yeah, they seem nice but really they’re not.. and those whom we thought to be jerks are the nice ones. :) Something to think about. Thanks Kristin Walker for the fun book!:)

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