10 Things I Hate About You by David Levithan

Told she can't date until her older sister starts, Bianca fears no one will want to take out sarcastic Kat.


David Levithan! When I found out that the novel version of my favorite movie was written by my favorite author, I fangirled… a lot. I bought this with very high expectations. I read it in an hour and loved almost every minute. What bothered me was that scholastic censored the book. Since I’m a big fan of the movie I’ve seen it a countless amount of times, and (though I’m not extremely proud to admit it) know a lot of the words. Some of the parts I was looking forward to reading about had dialogue that some say is risky and not suitable for certain age groups, so that dialogue wasn’t in the book. It also annoyed me that Kat, the main character would say “Oh my goddess”. She is a devoted feminist, and I think by having her say this, it seemed like she was trying to hard.
That being said, I think it was written nicely. The points of view switch a few times, which is good because all the characters are dramatically diverse. For being a book that was based on the movie, I think 10 Things was fairly good. It isn’t m favorite book in the world, it isn’t even in the top 10, but personally I think it was worth reading.

FTC- I bought this book.


*This book is currently out of print*