The Kissing Booth is a coming-of-age novel from Beth Reekles. The main theme of this novel deals with personal growth, as the teenage protagonist experiences first times, overwhelming feelings, body changes, unreliable boyfriends, and friendship. This progression is mirrored by the very structure of the text, which in fact originally was a series of chapters loaded by fifteen-year-old Beth on Wattpad. Her followers asked her to go on with the story, and so she did. It is in a kissing booth that the heroine will have her first kiss with a "bad boy," and it is around this booth that several events will rotate. The novel is engaging as well as amusing, and its winning writing style is related to the fact that the author succeeds in digging into the troubles of developing one’s identity, into the suffering of becoming an independent adult while not losing one’s most important social connections, through a nonetheless light-hearted development of the plot.