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Autumn's Kiss

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Kiss and tell…

Everyone knows how crazy junior year is, but Autumn Falls never imagined it would be so flirty. The wish-granting diary her father left her stopped working, leaving Autumn to decode what’s going on with her and Sean on her own. He seems into her…and he also seems into Reenzie.

But when J.J. steps up and tells Autumn he’s the one she should be with if she wants someone who really cares about her, and a pop star makes a major play for her, Autumn is totally confused. Her friends have Big Drama issues going on, too, and Autumn wants to be there for them. Then something mind-blowing happens. She’s suddenly given an incredible, crazy-fun opportunity: a map that takes her anyplace she wants to go.

At first it seems like an amazing gift. But showing up IRL where you’re least expected has life-changing consequences. Is Autumn ready to handle the fallout?

240 pages, Hardcover

First published November 10, 2015

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Bella Thorne

9 books358 followers
Bella Thorne is an American actress, singer, and music video director. She began her career at six weeks old as a child model, and eight years old with roles in in the television series My Own Worst Enemy and Big Love, Thorne gained mainstream notoriety for her starring role on the Disney series Shake It Up as well as Freeform’s Famous in Love. In 2018 she signed with Epic Records and began work on her debut album. In addition to her artistic pursuits, she started a makeup line called Thorne by Bella.

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Profile Image for Jeff Raymond.
3,092 reviews211 followers
November 10, 2015
I enjoyed Bella Thorne's debut novel, which deftly handled issues of learning disabilities, navigating school, and dealing with the loss of a loved one while having an interesting, consequential magical element that tied a lot of it together.

Autumn's Kiss takes all the good stuff out and instead provides us with a surface-level romance that barely matters and isn't all that compelling.

The book that granted wishes still exists, but the emblem on the cover is gone and it doesn't seem to grant wishes anymore. Autumn can't figure it out, and the love triangle that she's kind of fallen into is taking up a lot of her headspace. Plus, her friends are being weird, her family situation is still difficult, and nothing seems right. Exploring the book further, however, unveils a map on the cover, and she can write in where she wants to go and be instantly transported. This is a game-changer for her, and she starts to get a lot of answers to some questions, including answers she doesn't really want.

The whole thing is just kind of dumb and ridiculous, especially given the qualities of the first book. Everything feels surface-level, there's no real stakes, nothing to set things apart. It's all just very straightforward, and, frankly, not great. If you loved Autumn in book one, you'll likely hate her in book two. If you thought her love interests were weird in the first book, just wait until this one comes along. Everyone is forgettable, no one improves, and it's just rough.

Skip this.
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40 reviews
January 22, 2016
I really tried to not judge this book too harshly since the author is only 18, but I just can't say too many good things about this book. When I read Autumn Falls I thought, "Ok for someone who is not primarily an author, this is pretty good."This book is just bad and I can't say anything better.
1) First of all, I feel this book is too expensive for what you get. $13? Really? It's only 231 pages and it's not like this is Throne of Glass which is a best seller. If you are going to read this book, get it from the library or borrow it from a friend.
2) I got really tired of the immature writing style. The main character seems like a stereotypical teenage girl rather than a real person, and that reflects in the writing. I got so tired of the writing style I considered many times putting the down and not finishing it.
3) The main character is so freaking annoying. I don't think any high schooler makes the stupid decisions she makes. The rest of the main characters are dry and annoying as well. Like I said in my review of Autumn Falls, this book is like Mean Girls in a book.

Bottom line, I did not like this book. Autumn Falls I could tolerate, but this book was way worse. Bella Thorne: I like you and you have potential to be a good author. Please don't publish another book until you take some creative writing classes and come up with better ideas for a story.
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26 reviews
December 20, 2016
This book was about this girl named Autumn Falls. J.J. and Autumn liked each other but her best friend, Renzie also likes him. Autumn's dad gave her a diary that grants every wish she made but, it doesn't work anymore. She found a map that took her anywhere she wants to go but she couldn't handle the problems. This book was unexpected and it was the first book I've read about Bella Thorne.
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32 reviews
March 10, 2018
I stopped at page 23 and that's probably farther than I thought I would go
3 reviews
November 27, 2017
Autumn falls in a book by Bella Thorne written about mostly real life experiences. There is a little magic in the book but it seems so real. Autumn’s dad died and so she writes in a journal left by him. In the first book, “Autumn’s wish” the journal was magic as well. Whenever she would write in it and make a wish, it would come true.
This book is very relateable to a lot of teenage girls, especially to those who are missing someone they lost. Autumn thinks her journal had been stolen and replaced but part of the journal had just moved to the inside. In the inside, she has to rip part of the book because she sees the sign that was on the outside of the book. Inside of it, there is a map. A dry erase map. When she writes a person or place on it, something happens…
I would recommend this book to people who like realistic fiction because though there’s “magic” in it, everything else is realistic and relatable. I would give this book a 9/10
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409 reviews4 followers
September 23, 2017
Another celebrity-penned book that I read because of the Who? Weekly bookclub. I began reading Autumn's Kiss a few hours after finishing the pretty terrible Dollhouse from the Kardashian sister's. Dollhouse is super ditzy and compared to it, Autumn's Kiss is almost at a creative writing MFA level. Despite benefiting by the direct comparison, Autumn's Kiss is a forgettable teenage story. There's a magical element to the story that feels like a not-often-mentioned, super convenient deus ex machina that really annoyed me. I am a little curious to know how everything is resolved and who Autumn ends up with, but not curious enough to actually read the next book.
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Author 11 books18 followers
January 7, 2019
Again, you want a synopsis? It's on the book. I read this to pass on to my grandkids and up to the ending it was a little - Eeh! Then came the ending with Kyler Leeds. That story line sparked an interest and brought the rating way up. Is this fluff? Yeah. Is it Cheesy? What the heck does that mean? Was it enjoyable? 4 Stars worth! I have no idea who Bella Thorne is as a celebrity (I hate that word); but I like her style of writing . Enough to read the third book, anyway. Never read the first and probably won't.
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88 reviews
November 9, 2021
As i assumed i really liked following Autumn on her adventures and social challenges. Enter a map that brings you to every place you wish in a blink of an eye, which by the way i think Autumn used way to seldom because her little accidents were really amusing. The second book in the series is a fun and fast read.
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1,559 reviews51 followers
July 18, 2019
Another ending that leaves more to be said in the story. Not exactly a cliffhanger, but it leaves the impression that there's more coming. And sure enough, I find there's a third book in the series.

I felt bad for the whole J.J. situation. I kind of thought he'd be good for her. I also wonder if more will happen with Kyler, but I guess I have to wait until I can get my hands on book 3!

Switching from the journal to the map was interesting and I can't wait for what new twist will come next.
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9 reviews1 follower
November 12, 2015
Oh my goodness, I was sooooo excited to get this book (on early realease too by like a day) and I started to read as soon as I bought it. This book, to me, was amazingly written with a lot of intense moments and tough decisions and a lot of other exciting things as well. I indulged reading this book because it caught my attention right away. I would definitely recommend this book who are into teen novels with intense moments and relatable moments. Can't wait for the next one!!!!!!
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72 reviews9 followers
August 19, 2017
Alright, so...where to begin?

The first book surprised me with how good it was. A lot, actually. I had such a fun time with it that I went out of my way to go hunt down the other two in the series shortly after finishing up. Now that I've finally read book two, however, one thing has become very clear: I hyped myself up way too much.

The charm and originality and instances of doing something fun and different with typical tropes, all of which were present in book one, get replaced in Kiss by severely watered-down versions of what they were before. The melodrama, meanwhile, gets cranked up to eleven thanks to not much of an actual plot to keep the pages turning, and as such the characters that, in Falls, were all written very well and very consistently in order to compliment one another, become typical two-dimensional boards meant to represent various archetypes, none of which are terribly intriguing.

Honestly, the character mauling that this book commits was my biggest problem with it. Autumn's personality flip-flops back and forth and the reasons behind this are never explained, chalked up instead to plot convenience. Towards the end, JJ loses every single thing that made him a good personality by trading it in to become Autumn's lapdog. Sean is a jerk, then he's not. Reenzie is a jerk, then she's still a jerk, and yet never gets any comeuppance this time. Kyler "Mr. Mega Pop Star" Leeds is a GIANT jerk throughout this ENTIRE novel, but it still portrayed as someone every character loves or ironically hates. Key word being ironically, because we're clearly meant to know everybody is head over heels for this guy. It couldn't have been any more blatantly obvious if he had a gigantic "I AM SEAN V2" sign over his head flashing bright red the entire time. Rarely does what any character does at any point makes sense, and while the plot has lots of enjoyable moments, they're diluted by the absurdity of the overall story and how messy the execution is- there are too many side stories all crammed in here, and almost none of them see any concrete resolution because of it. Characters introduced and plot devices brought into play are entirely forgotten or glossed over to save time. It's just really, embarrassingly clunky...especially so when you consider how well the first book handled itself story-wise.

Basically, in most areas that Falls succeeded, Kiss fails. Not terribly hard, but fails none the less. The charm of the first book is out the window by the last scene and out the door by the final word, and gone with it is my hype for book 3- if, of course, said last words are any indication of what's coming. I'm hopeful still that it's all just a case of Sequel Syndrome...but I can't really be sure.

Overall, I still give it a three. It was enjoyable from a pure reading perspective, and I still had fun with it and lost myself in the world all over again- one thing that Thorne is really, really good at is making good use of her words and really bringing out Autumn's voice- it becomes incredibly easy to fall into the belief that she's just telling this big, crazy story to you over a cup of coffee or something. Besides that, the writing itself is smooth, crisp, and polished...but not too polished. It flows, it reads easy, and it's very entertaining.

That all being said, though, as a writer I just can't justify anything beyond a three-star rating here. The plot is just too huge of a mess to overlook, and the characters themselves are written so poorly that they're only saved by how great the narration and description of their situation is. Book three, I have hopes for you to save this series. We'll see, I suppose.
8 reviews
January 30, 2020
Autumn's Kiss is about Autumn Falls a high school junior and her friends. In Sophomore year she moved to Florida and left one of her best friends back in Maryland. But, since she’s moved to Florida, she met her new best friends. She has a beautiful best friend named Reenzie, a boy best friend J.J. She has some other friends named Ames or Amalita, Taylor, Jack, and Sean. Throughout the book she loses some friends gets some boyfriends and ruins her best friends relationships.
Before the book, Autumn’s father passed away but before he died he gave Autumn this diary that would make anything she wrote in it come true. So Autumn goes to write in the diary but the magic zemi was gone and she was worried it wouldn’t work. She searched the thing for hours, thinking maybe it isn’t her actual book but it had to be. She felt something then and she cut the front off. She found the zemi inside the cover and her brother told her to write on it so she does and she finds out it’s like a map and it brings her anywhere she wants.
So she helps her Ames get the boy of her dreams. Or so she thought it was the boy of her dreams. She got Taylor a great boyfriend. Her map didn’t really help her though but one day Sean asks her out and she says yes. She loves Sean but one day she wants to go meet Sean in his hotel room on Vacation and sees him cuddling with Reenzie. She gets really upset and texts him saying their breaking up. She gets with J.J. who to her surprise has liked her for a while. When Sean get back he explains that he was drinking before that and he was going to tell her everything and he doesn’t like her. Although she still loved him and wanted to be with him she is now dating J.J.
In the end she loses most of her friends but a famous singer whose mee maw goes to the same elderly center as Eddy(Autumns grandmother), brings Autumn on the roof and they talk. She tells him everything. And because of him she got all her friends back. Taylor, Ames, Jack, Autumn, and J.J. are single. But Reenzie and Sean are dating, though it hurts Autumn she stills goes and talks to them at her New Years Party. Then, Autumn went to Kyler.
My favorite part of the book was when J.J. and Autumn were dating and they were watching a movie with Taylor and Jack. In the book it says, “...The grandpa in the movie says something like, “Buttercup was amazed to discover that when he was saying ‘As you wish’, what meant was ‘I love you.” Then J.J. says right along with the guy, “ And even more amazing was the day she realized she truly loved him back.” I think if you like funny but romantic books you will like this book. I think this book is for young teens.
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November 5, 2018
Name: Emily Regelstad
Date: 10-31-18
Class: 2

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Title: Autumn's Kiss
Pages: 231
Author: Bella Thorne
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Genre: Science Fiction
ISBN: 987-0-385-74435-4
Price: $18.99

Give a summary of the book- without giving away the ending.

Autumn is a junior in high school. It was a very flirty year for Autumn. The wish-granting diary her father left stopped working and left her on her own to solve what is going on between her and Sean. Sean is into Autumn but also likes Reenzie.. Autumn is very confused when JJ tells her he is the one who really cares about her. She also wants to help her friends with all of their big drama problems She is then given a map that can take her wherever she wants to go. At first she thinks it is a good gift but then realizes it might not be and has consequences. Who will Autumn choose and will she be able to handle it?


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Who would you recommend this book to and why?

I would recommend this book to young adults
or teens who like drama. This book includes lots of
drama and interesting parts about a junior in
high school. I think you should be mature enough as
a teen or young adult because the book has some
parts about kissing.

Some other good books are:
➔ Hatchet
➔ Harris and Me
➔ The River
1 review2 followers
August 2, 2019
This was such a great book about someone's high school life. A high school girl named Autumn Falls, tries to bring peace and harmony to her little corner of the world with a map that takes her anywhere she wants. Though she doesn't know the consequences that it brings along. She thinks it's the perfect way to help her friends with their love life although it works at first, it all ends terrible because her friends relationships she helped with didn't turn out good. Her love life didn't go to well either and when her friends find out the truth that she meddled with their love life, all her friends are mad at her. Autumn apologizes to her friends for everything she did. They end up forgiving her. After Autumn learned her lesson she puts away the map and plans to never use it again for it has caused to much trouble. The reason I really liked this book was because of how real the story can be in someone's life, since generally people try to balance their own personal life along with trying to make other people's life better.
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111 reviews10 followers
June 13, 2018
Eh... it was okay. The characters were one sided and it didn't feel like the elements of the story were very developed. Autumn was likable enough, but not really any more than that, and often times her actions seemed somewhat petty or left me thinking, "Why?" or, "Really? You think that is the best way to handle that?" and maybe even just "???????" It took a little while to get started, but there were parts that I enjoyed, and Autumn had a humor and relatable awkwardness. However, Autumn's decisions just seemed unreasonable sometimes, and didn't seem realistic. It just felt like the author didn't take enough time to build out aspects of the story. But, I did end up reading this sequel without reading the first book in the series (whoops!) so that could just be me. Overall, it wasn't horrible or anything, but it is not necessary a book that I would recommend.
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1 review2 followers
October 11, 2017
Autumn's is starting junior high and and she never imagined that it would be that flirty. Autumn's have a thing with Sean and its really dramatic with Sean and her. But then theirs jj this football player says that hes the one that she needs to be with.And when a stars trucked pop star makes a major play for her and shes super confused with everything with JJ and Sean which one to pick and with the pop star also her beast friend likes Sean. But boys and her best friend is half of her problem theirs this BIGGER problem. Autumn's is given a map that takes her anyplace she wants to go. It seems fun and amazing but it instant. I kinda enjoyed and kinda not because at first it was really boring in the begging and then when i started reading more and more it started to make sense but i wish it had more of a wow or like surprise or something like that or a little dramatic that would enjoyed it. I kinda wish it had a little picture or something like that. If they could have more characters in the problem that would of helped but it was alright.
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77 reviews
July 24, 2017
I think I preferred the first book in the Autumn Falls series a tiny bit more than this one, but I still loved it. I will definitely be reading the last book.

Autumn struggled to find out who she liked more and who did she want to be with. She messed up with her friends a few times and at one point she was friendless. Her celebrity friend Kyler Leeds helped her get back on her feet and get her friends back.

I would recommend this for teenagers.
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Profile Image for Lyssa Keller.
5 reviews
July 27, 2017
I love this book better than the first one. I like that it has real problems that real teenagers have. The intensity of it. I like that Reenzie and Autumn are basaty fight over Sean. The whole Sean/Reenzie thing with Autumn in the closet. And Kyler Leeds with autumn on the roof. But I really want to know what happens with Kyler and Autumn in the third book.
Profile Image for Kim.
1,279 reviews
June 11, 2018
Okay, I wanted to not like this, but in truth, it was funny with a zany premise and a very flawed protagonist that you couldn't help but like in the end. I know this is not the first Autumn Falls book. There are some readers who would really get into this series. I am glad I read it, can recommend it, and have a good time discussing it with students.
15 reviews3 followers
May 13, 2019
I loved this. It was kind of cheesy the way everything wrapped up so quickly and easily, but I loved the way it ended with a cliffhanger so it wasn’t all perfect. I also love that in this series I’m not sure which boy to root for. They all have differently great qualities but they each have a flaw so it’s not like there’s one obvious choice for Autumn.
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Author 7 books255 followers
September 20, 2020
3.5
So, this book was really cute and sweet and a quick read that drew me in and kept me turning pages. I didn't realize it was book 2, and there were some mentions of previous events, but it read as a stand alone, too. Still, would definitely recommend reading the first book to know who the characters are a little better.
A good book overall.
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335 reviews6 followers
February 8, 2023
The first book was really cute but this one didn’t leave me all the feels. Autumn was pretty annoying in this one. She cannot make up her mind and how does everyone want to be with her. It drove me nuts. It is possible for a guy and girl to be just friends. I’ll finish the last in the series because they are quick reads but didn’t find this one as good or fun as the first.
21 reviews
December 19, 2016
Autumn's kiss is about a girl named Autumn who has a boyfriend, but 2 other boys like her and one of them is her best friend. This reminds me of when my friend has a boyfriend and my friend likes her.
1 review
February 17, 2018
I LOVE this book. It makes the reader feel like you're Autumn. It's such a well written story. I read the second one only. I found out that there are two after reading the book. I understood everything. I highly suggest!
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607 reviews1 follower
January 26, 2019
I thoroughly enjoyed this book,it was light and fluffy but in a good way. I also enjoyed how the diary aspect of the first novel wasn't as emphasized as much,even if it added a lot to the first book in the series. I read the first book on a whim,so I'm glad I decided to continue with the series!
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312 reviews2 followers
October 18, 2020
I loved everything about this book, the character, the settings, the ideas and the story!
I cruised through this book and the next 2.
They would just grasp you so you wanted to read more and more and become friends with the ones in the books~!
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692 reviews56 followers
December 31, 2020
I didn't enjoy this book as much as the first one in the trilogy, though this one was still an enjoyable read. I'll definitely be reading the third one. Anyone who is looking for a good "chick flick" type series, will enjoy this one:)
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20 reviews
January 31, 2022
For a kids book I almost feel embarrassed for how much I actually enjoyed this book 😂. It actually had a really good plot and actually made me feel sad and heartbroken along with the main character it was amazing.
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196 reviews
July 2, 2023
tell me whyyyy this book was so bad yet so good and i have a sudden urge to read the first and third one now…prob not gonna buy them but i hate to say i enjoyed myself
bella YOU WIN
except literally everyone annoyed me in the book but it’s fine
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