But there isn’t much more insight to be had than in your average teen sex (or in this case no-sex) comedy. Shut Out Audible Audiobook Unabridged Kody Keplinger (Author), Kate Reinders (Narrator), & 1 more 223 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 8.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Most high school sports teams have rivalries with other Schools. Profanity) creates a realistic high-school environment. Lissa’s quarterback boyfriend Randy is always ditching her to pick a fight on or prank the other team. Shut Out summary Let the battle of the sexes begin The girls of Hamilton High are sick of the rivalry between their boyfriends’ football and soccer teams. There are some honest, sensitive, and surprising conversations about sex and relationships, and the overall crassness (both in terms of sex and casual Review: Shut Out by Kody Keplinger Every 16-year-old girl should read this book. Keplinger has picked a hefty topic, but her characters lack the complexity to pull off a real triumph of girl power. Lissa, who is dating stereotypically oafish football player Randy, gets the other players’ girlfriends to agree to the plan, and the girls bond over their experiences with the sex strike while relationships are put to the test. Her modernization of Aristophanes’s play, in which women withheld sex from their husbands to persuade them to end the Peloponnesian War, has high school girls using the same tactic on their boyfriends, who are involved in an escalating rivalry between the football and soccer teams. Given that Keplinger (The DUFF) is using Lysistrata as the basis for her sophomore novel, it should come as little surprise that sex is at the heart of it.
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