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I wasn't living at home anymore, so I had to cook my own meals and do all the laundry and figure out how to be an adult (in a) relationship.
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We had a bit of a distance thing going on, and we were figuring out how to see each other. (Years later) I had a boyfriend from school when I started university.
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I wish my life was as exciting as this book.” It probably was inspired by movies and TV shows and YA novels I was reading. Reekles: I remember my Spanish teacher asking me, when the (first) book had come out, if it was based on anything in my life, and I was like, “I've barely even kissed a boy at this point. How has your point of view on romance changed from then to when you wrote the sequel? Q: You wrote the first "Kissing Booth" novel when you were only 15. It does seem a bit fantastical in a pandemic where I’ve lived alone for four months and only just hugged someone about a week ago when I went home to see my family. Question: How do you think of kissing booths now, in the middle of a pandemic, compared to back when you wrote your first book?īeth Reekles: (A kissing booth) always seemed like something that’s fun, sweet, a little bit on the crazy side, a little bit outside of the normal. We chatted with Reekles about what it’s like to revisit her teenage stories and the challenge of writing romance in the COVID era: (Novel “The Kissing Booth 2: Going the Distance” was published this January.) She's graduated from college with a physics degree, gotten a job as an IT service manager and has written more books on the side.
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Speaking of changes, a lot has happened since Reekles found Wattpad success in 2011. "I knew there were a lot of differences from the book, but at the same time it still kept the characters and kind of the core of what was going on," she says. Reekles takes no issue with the onscreen changes.
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"The Kissing Booth 2" premieres Friday and follows Elle as she manages several relationships: There's her long-distance boyfriend Noah, who's starting at Harvard her BFF Lee, who now has a serious girlfriend and new guy Marco (Taylor Zakhar Perez), who is distractingly muscular, musical and skilled at arcade games. (The story diverges from the book, in which Elle's new potential love interest is Levi, a sweet neighbor who helps babysit her brother.) According to Netflix, "The Kissing Booth" was the most rewatched Netflix film in 2018, the year it was released.