This book was so freaking fantastic! I started reading this during a reading slump so it took me a while to get through it (no fault of the book just my own issues) But I absolutely loved it! The writing was very simple and easily digestible! I loved the characters and I was able to relate to pretty much all of them in one way or another! The overall character arch and growth was done very well and I appreciate the fact that most of the issues the character was facing was put in the book for a reason and a learning lesson and not just to add useless drama! The friendship relationship in this book was done so beautifully and was one of the best things about this story! The last 35% of the book was so gripping and addictive that I just couldn't put it down until I KNEW how everything turned out! The hard hitting topic and approached and dealt with so well and this book really made me feel seen in so many way! The topics of Religion, Sexual Assault, Bullying are all really hard topics to write about and to do it well! I have experienced a lot of the thing this character has gone through, and I thought that it was represented very very well!

The only "bad" thing that I can even pinpoint it that toward the end it felt like there were just so many thing going wrong in the characters life that I didn't get to see them all flushed out and felt by the character! I just wanted a bit more time spent on each issues for the characters to learn all they could from the mistakes they made. But that is such am minor thing and didn't affect my overall enjoyment of this book!
I am so proud of Katie and all of the hard work that she has put into this book and I so extremely happy to have loved it as much as I did!

I was given an e-arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.

First impressions: the cover definitely is not for a fluffy YA contemporary book, which is good, because that is not what this book is. There is nothing fluffy about it. It tackles some pretty heavy topics and tries not to pull punches about them.

I appreciate how (mostly) realistic this book is. It follows a teenage girl who makes a pact with her friend to lose their virginity by the end of their senior year of high school. That in and of itself is not unrealistic, and neither is their choices of who they want to lose it to. The one friend caving to the wishes of the other is pretty normal as well, no teen girl wants to lose her BFF when she feels like she doesn't have any other friends. Beyond that, I am still figuring out my feelings about the book. It's well written, not too descriptive but not too vague, and does try to tackle those things that young girls would come up against in high school. Mean girls, overbearing parents, a crush...

And then the book goes from 0 to 60 in the space of about four pages. About halfway through the book, Mean Girl in Chief finds out about the pact and spreads it all around the school. Things go very downhill very fast, and so much is jammed into the last 10% of the book that my head was spinning and I wasn't sure what was happening. The pacing for everything was done in a very realistic timeline, and I do appreciate that so many things were addressed, because there are definitely situations that should absolutely be talked about. But it begs the question of, did we need that many hard hitting topics all in one book? As if one very VERY unlucky individual is going to go through all of that?

Overall, I did end up enjoying the book for the most part. It was pretty much exactly what I was expecting going in, based on the title and cover. Pacing was great, characters were consistent, the end was a little too perfect to be realistic, but all in all, there isn't really anything bad about the book.

Erm what the hell was this book 🙆
The title and the blurb both sounded so good but the story had nothing. Nope.
So it all starts with our goody-goody MC Meredith aka Mare and her best friend Johanna signing a pact to lose their virginity by the end of the senior year. Cool. Interesting. What harm could it do, eh?
Turns out - a lot 🙂😂
Filled to the brim with drama, this was a hot mess, not kidding. First, the characters were so underdeveloped. Our MC had serious anxiety, it turned out, but later this was completely left unaddressed. Well well. She was so bland and a typical 'im a good girl I can't take revenge or do anything bad' girl, if you know what I'm talking about. And there's nothing wrong with it but Mare was just - just.
Then was Harper who was nice and badass rebel sorts but her problems were completely anaccounted for later, giving us just one instance that would question her sexuality.
And her over religious parents. Damn son. Won't even go into this.
In case of characters, I think I only liked Squirt the dog and a bit of Sam. Johanna was a hit or miss.
Now, coming to the story, it was a mess. I know I've said it but I'm saying it again - it was a MESS. The author couldn't just deal elaborately with one important theme, no. The author had to deal with multiple unrelated (almost) themes that we're simply abrupt and just there in the story to add to the number of pages.
There was a lot of unnecessary drama and I cringed so bad. It was typical and cliche and a very overdone plotline, bring in some tense mean girl drama along with some dog drama and voila! There you go.
I guess I would've loved it a little more if the book solely focused on talks of sexuality and rape and abuse and the religious aspect. But it was so rushed, all of these important topics, one and another thing came out of nowhere and ended up nowhere. It was just a big mess I felt.

Thanks to Netgalley for the e-copy. All views expressed are fully mine.

We follow Meredith the preacher's daughter who is going through a hard time, she struggling with her belief and about how to tell people then, she’s got pretty bad anxiety which I have to say is depicted well but I think that is a personal opinion cause not everyone with anxiety experience in the same way.

‘Not that I should be surprised – my anxiety has always been an unwanted but expected houseguest. I can usually anticipate it long before it starts to manifest, but no matter how hard I try to prepare or reason with my body, it still reacts as if the millions of times before haven’t taught it this is not a life or death situation. That it is, in fact, only making things even more difficult than necessary.’

She made a pact with her best friend Jo that they’d both lose their virginity before the end of senior year. Then Meredith gets worried when Jo decides she wants Mr. Graham, her teacher to be her first. I did like how it showed Meredith voicing her concerns about the idea, I just wish she never caved on what she thought was wrong, Because nothing good comes out of these situations. There was more talk of religion and believing or not believing that I thought was a really good undertone to have. It didn’t take up the full narrative but it went a long way in helping build the background of the character showing us why Meredith is the way she is when the book starts, and there were some good points where made.

I feel like the experience reading this book is like watching a TV show like Pretty Little Liars or Gossip Girl. I love these shows and find them entertaining which is exactly what I found in this book. This book is not a light or easy read it covers things like: Bullying, Religion, Sexual Assault, Animal Abuse, Substance abuse, Anxiety, and trauma. It is however addicting and keeps you glued to the pages wanting to find out what happens.

‘Eyes will zero in on my read cheek and the beads of sweat in my hairline. I’ll try to speak. My blood will thunder so loudly in my ears I’ll barely even hear my own voice as it comes out thin and shaky – a dead indicator to everyone around me of just how nervous I am over something completely simple and stupid like getting called on in class. They’ll all know in a panicked, shaky mess.’


One of my favorite aspects of this book is the sisters. I found Mare and Harper’s relationship quite endearing and totally realistic, especially towards the end of the novel. I think the whole book came off as quite realistic, it has some important message and the writing was solid. It really did feel like an appropriate narrative the characters sounded and acted their age. The writing of the characters came across as genuine. I didn’t have any expectations going into this. I watch Katie Wismer’s book tube channel and was excited to get approved for an arc from NetGalley but I went in expecting nothing and came out with a book I enjoyed.

3/5 stars. Thank you to NetGalley and Ahimsa Press for the e-arc!

I liked it well enough. I didn’t hate it, I didn’t love it. I think I had the most problems with the pacing, and it feels like some things aren’t finished enough. I didn’t have a problem finishing it and never wanted to stop reading, so I went with 3 star on this.


What I liked:
-I thought the premise of this was really interesting, which is why I picked up the book in the first place.
-I think the first third or so of this book is my favorite part. In the beginning, it read like a pretty chill contemporary novel that would lead up to some hard conversations. I also liked Meredith’s character the best in that part.
-The writing reads pretty standard for YA contemporary. You want to figure out what happens next, and the writing is not super dense.
-I actually liked a lot of the plot points that were addressed (didn’t love the execution, though, more on that under the what I didn’t like section)
-A lot of reviews say that Meredith acts too young, but I like it and I think it fits the book. As someone who grew up in the midwest in the U.S., a lot of people who are raised in extremely religious families come off as young/naive/sheltered to everyone else. So I thought that it was realistic.


What I’m on the fence about:
-The description/blurb on goodreads leads you to believe that the order of events in the book happens differently than it does, especially the way the anti-virginity pact was introduced. I think if sex and the church's view on that were discussed more in the book (or slut-shaming, or something along those lines), it would have worked better. If the pact had been the catalyst for Meredith getting bullied, that would have worked better.


What I didn’t like:
-Nothing much happens for the first half of the book but too much happens in the second half. The lead up could really have been condensed. Things don’t really kick off until about half way, and then everything seems to happen at breakneck speed.

-I feel like this book tried too hard not to offend anyone, and thus skipped some of the emotional labor of leaving a religion. The characters could have done a lot of reflection on their actions and how they wanted to move forward with the people around them, but we don’t see any of that. Meredith is an atheist before the book even starts, so we’re told about her journey there in retrospect. There isn’t a lot of in depth talk of the problems Meredith has with the church in the beginning. We don’t know a lot about the church she’s in, and because of that, the things that happen later in the book seem to appear out of the blue.

-Some subplots of the book are not finished, and some are unnecessary. Which sucks, because I think a good amount of these plot points tie into religion very well. The plot deals with sex, sexual assault, and bullying in a town that is very religious, but does not tie any of these to the church strongly enough.


All in all, it was fine but it could have been edited down for pacing, and the subplots could have been more fleshed out.

Not for me, no. I was expecting something else from this book, the writing was overly simple and the characters felt really artificial, everything felt really artificial and unrealistic.

I was really intrigued by the cover and title of The Anti-Virginity Pact. I went in expecting a story about a girl wanting to lose her virginity, which I guess is kind of what the story is about, but it wasn't at all what I was expecting. The cover art had me thinking it was a thriller, and the description referred to it as a romance. It seemed to be a bit of both. And realistically for me, this was a case of judging the book by its cover - I didn't even read the description before reading the book.

Meredith Beaumont is the teenage daughter of a small-town Colorado preacher. She's also recently signed a pact with her best friend Jo declaring they'll both lose their virginities by the end of senior year, which is quickly approaching. While Mare sets her sights on the childhood best friend she hasn't spoken to in years, Jo pursues their young, attractive history teacher. But things don't quite go as planned, and though a mean girl at school may cause many a problem for Mare, she may actually be her own biggest enemy.

Eh, it's rough to review a book when it has so much potential but instead just falls short. Honestly, this book was a bit of a mess. The intro chapter introduces the book in a way that leads the reader into believing this story is a going to be a thriller. I mean, yes, I went in mistakingly believing that this book was a thriller novel, but I've gone back and reread that first chapter and it still sets up expectations of a story in the thriller genre. And honestly, I think the novel would've been better served as a thriller that includes some romance.

And the characters were pretty terrible. Jo's plan to seduce her teacher was horrid, but she wasn't the worst of the characters. Ashley, the mean girl, was pretty unbelievably horrifying. It made it pretty difficult to even consider that level of bullying. It was bad. And Mare was just purely infuriating. Every decision she made was just bad news. She was an incredibly unlikeable protagonist. Sam and Jada were the only really likable characters, and there wasn't quite enough of either of them.

There was also some hints at major things that other characters were dealing with (Jo, Ashley, Silvia), but it was just passed over and ignored. I really felt some of those issues needed to be addressed, and they just... weren't.

Lastly, there was a significant second storyline that seemed pretty pointless to me. The actual storytelling was fine, and it wasn't that the second storyline was bad - it would've just been better served in a different capacity, in a different story. It just didn't make sense within this particular story.

Now that I've got all the bad out, here's what I really liked about the story: I liked that the main character was a French-American preacher's daughter in small-town Colorado. I liked her doubts about religion, her struggles with anxiety - those are the things that made her character more real.

"Teaching abstinence only doesn't stop teenagers from having sex - it just creates an entire generation of uneducated people who don't understand anything about safe sex, STIs, and how their own bodies work" - The Anti-Virginity Pact, Katie Wismer

There was so much potential with The Anti-Virginity Pact. The plot is reminiscent of a classic 80s or 90s teen drama: A group/pair of friends make a pact with each other to lose their virginities by graduation. There's some romance and drama, a mean girl, bullying, falling in love. It's all there. The main character has depth, but she's insufferable. The book was put together so messily, which took away from what the book could've been. I wish I would've liked this book more.

This book was really compelling. It hooked me right from the start and had so many memorable lines and moments. I totally felt everything while reading this. I love Meredith and Sam and would love to read more.

My only issue was the ending. Meredith just forgiving and forgetting after a week didn’t seem right. It seemed too much like trying to create a happy ending when I feel like a slightly broken ending would have suited the book and plot build up better.

3.5 stars. I enjoyed this book. Sometimes the story is a little bit too over the place, but it was overall good.

I watch Katie’s channel on YouTube and that is what made me want to read the book even though it is not what I usually gravitate towards.

Before I started this book, I didn't realize that it would have a heavy Christianity focus in the book but as someone who doesn't mind reading Christian books, it didn't hinder me in enjoying this book. Our book introduces us to our two main characters Meredith and her best friend Johanna. Meredith and Johanna are in their final year of high school and have decided that this year they will lose their V-cards and together in a drunken haze - make an Anti-Virginity pact. Normally this wouldn't have been too bad but for Meredith - she is the eldest daughter of the local Preacher and they are quite strict in their learnings as we read one of the church member youth being sent to the Conversion Christian Camps and their Dad heading to stop Sex Ed at their high school. As the book goes along, we read as Meredith starts to date Sam - another guy from her Church and Johanna has her eye on their English teacher. Throughout the novel, both girls will start to open up as they decide to take the next steps. What will happen though when the contract gets out and the whole school knows and the bullying starts? Can Meredith keep it under wraps from her parents or will she find herself shipped off in the middle of the night to the Christian Conversion camp?
The Anti-Virginity Pact was a great Edgy Christian Fiction YA read and reading this did get me thinking as we do live in a world, where often 18 is the age where females if they haven't had sex earlier - will try to before that point as I remember being 18 - the first time I had sex as I wanted to wait till I was 18 years old and I too think it was strongly due to my Christian upbringing.

Delightfully funny, romantic, and fresh.

“The Anti-Virginity Pact” delivers a story that is so real to our modern day society. Our main character Meredith struggles with her views on religion, whilst also dealing with the repercussions of a pact that she and her best friend Jo drunkenly made. Also, her boyfriend Sam, who can I just say, was amazing. Meredith is a character that strangely enough I related to. In terms of questioning my beliefs on religion, I definitely agreed with some of the points that she considered. This novel was also extremely quick to read, having only taken me three days to fly through. This was definitely a story that I devoured and fell in love with, and Katie Wismers writing was funny and brilliant.

I thought that Wismer dealt amazingly with the subject of sexual assault, and overall sex in general. I also thought that her portrayal of high school was realistic. While there were many plot lines which sometimes got confusing, I found that the main story was easy to follow and I was instantly invested!

Having followed Katie’s writing process on her youtube channel, I found myself eagerly anticipating this novel, and it’s fair to say, I wasn’t disappointed! I hope that this book finds success upon its release, and that Katie continues to produce excellent work in the future!

I wasn't sure how I would feel about this book going into it. I don't typically care for contemporary, especially YA contemporary. I read this mostly because I'm a fan of the authors book tube and wanted to support her fully prepared to give this a 3 star rating for being "fine" like 90% of the contemporary I read.

First of I want to say I'm so pleasantly shocked that Kate doesn't allow her high school characters to do endless stupid shit with a "they're just kids" excuse. The teens act like believable teenagers facing emotional consequences in a real way. There are some sub plots that are a little out there but nothing that took away from my enjoyment.

This book tackles hard hitting topics like attempted sexual assault, bullying, and religious fundamentalists, but in a way that reflects well on teenage/parent relationships.

The pacing of the writing was wonderful, I wasn't bored and the climax of the plot points weren't rushed. I also appreciated that being in a relationship wasn't the "answer" as seen in a lot YA novels.

Overall I highly recommend this. It was a great read.

I really wanted to like this book, but I didn't. The premise sounded interesting, a little outside of what I would usually read but i like to be surprised and usually will read any contemporary book. This book, however, missed the mark for me. The first half of this book was quite slow, and not much happened, which isn't a bad thing necessarily but it is when you compare it to how much happened in the second half. It almost feels as if the author was worried she was running out of time to fit the entire story in, but this book is only 240 pages and i think had it been longer, some of these issues could have been resolved.
Furthermore, I felt as if the actions and choices made by the characters were very young for their age, this story would have been better if Meredith and her friends were 16 and harper was maybe 13/14, although her being 15 is not unbelievable.
I thought the religion aspect of this story was interesting, and had the story focused more on Meredith and the pact she signed and how that contrasts the beliefs she was raised on, this could have been incredibly interesting. However, the inclusion of the dog fighting ring, her almost sleeping with Ashley's boyfriend even though she has a boyfriend, her getting assaulted by Derek; it felt as if the author was trying to do too much in a short book.
Finally, for a book called the anti-virginity pact, the actual pact felt very much like a sideplot, almost as if it was forgotten about until about halfway through, when suddenly everything started happening in Meredith's life.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

DNF at 30%. This book is trying to talk about too many topics. It feels unfocused and like all of the topics aren't going to be wrapped up. From reading reviews, a lot of readers feel that way.

I wasn't a fan of Mare as a character. I definitely didn't like Johanna and I don't like how her student-teacher relationship dreams are being introduced. It's frustrating that Mare isn't willing to be mad at her friend for wanting to have sex with a teacher. It also doesn't seem like the teacher was doing themselves any favors. The male teachers I know keep their doors open when female students are in their rooms.

The writing is good and I'd be willing to try Katie's future books. I just want them to be more focused.

The Anti-Virginity Pact is written by Katie Wismer. It is releasing June 16, 2020. Thank you to Katie Wismer and Net Galley for allowing me to read this book early. ⁣
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I’ve been watching Katie on youtube for a long time and couldn’t wait to support her first published novel. This book comes with a ton of trigger warnings, but Katie does a great job of pointing them out to you. We are following Meredith as she is going through her senior year of high school. She’s an atheist and a preacher’s daughter. At the beginning of the book she makes a pact with her best friend to lose her virginity. Eventually the pact becomes known at school and flips her world upside down.⁣

This book sounds controversial and I will admit that I was a little nervous going into it. I was so wrong. It starts off like a typical YA novel, but it gets very gritty and very real. Katie isn’t afraid to deal with heavy topics and leaves you with a great message that a lot of people need to have especially with what is going on right now. It’s a great book for learning to stand up for yourself and what you believe in! Loving others, but also loving yourself. I saw myself in Meredith and I found myself crying multiple times in this book. Younger me needed to read this book. I think a lot of readers will be able to relate to this book in one way, shape, or form. Highly recommend you try this book if you like hard hitting contemporary books!⁣
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4 stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⁣

Really really enjoyed this! Thought Meredith came across as a normal teenager, going through some not so normal situations. I did feel some events were slightly far fetched but again books set in high school often have that so it didn't ruin the book for.

Thank you to Netgalley and Katie Wismer for a copy of this book!

Part of this book was very hard to read, but I knew this getting into it because the author included a list of trigger warnings. That was so appreciated, and every author should do this!!

The writting was wonderful. The plot had a great flow to it. The story really pulled at my emotions. The characters were fun and well rounded. I love the friendship between Meredith and Johanna! Every girl needs that kind of bestie by their side.

Overall fantastic read! Would totally recommend

Wow! I loved this and honestly if I was able to read this while I was in high school it would 100% be a 5 star because it's everything high school me loved in books! To this day I still love a good book that has a religious aspect from a nonreligious person's view because my family and my in laws are high religious and that's just never been my journey so even as an adult I was able to relate to Mare! I had minor issues with this book but nothing that kept me from loving it still! I would recommend this to anyone who loves hard hitting reads.

The Anti-Virginity Pact is Katie Wismer’s debut novel (she published her first poetry collection in Summer 2018) and it’ll be released on June 16, 2020 by her own publishing company, Ahimsa Press. This book was one of my most anticipated releases of 2020 because, besides being and author, Katie, who’s only 23 years-old, is also one of my favorite YouTubers (KatesBookDate): she creates content about what she reads and writes and about her work as a freelance editor.
For that reason, and because she’s got a B.A. in Creative Writing, I always expected her first novel to be wonderful. When she announced this book and its plot, I was sure I’d love it. But I was disappointed. The three stars I’m giving it mean I had fun reading it and Katie’s a good writer, but the book has plenty of negative aspects.
One of my main issues with this book is that its title, summary and first few chapters promise you something that’s very different from what the book actually turns out to be.
According to The Anti-Virginity Pact’s Goodreads summary, Meredith Beaumont, the goody two-shoes daughter of a preacher, is sick of pretending to be something she’s not. Even though religion is crucial to the Beaumont family, she’s an atheist and now, on her last year of high school, she signs a pact with her best friend to lose her virginity before school’s out. That won’t be easy for a girl who panics whenever she thinks about boys, though.
When she finally gets a chance to act on the pact, it’s leaked against her will. How will that affect her relationship with the boy she’s starting to really like? What will happen when her religious parents find out? Most importantly, will Meredith be able to show everyone who she really is?
The tone and content of this book were not what I was expecting. The title led me to believe the story would de sexy. But no, there’s no sex at all – there isn’t even any sexual tension – in this book that includes the world ‘virginity’ in its title. (There’s an almost-rape, but we’ll get there.) What’s the point of giving the book this title and having a protagonist who despite being in high school is already 18 if nothing remotely sexy happens? It would make more sense for her to be 14 or 15.
The title and summary also make you think that the anti-virginity pact will play a major role in this book. And yes, there is a pact, and it does affect Meredith’s life, but the book is no more about the pact than it is about a whole bunch of random things that happen to her in a time frame too short for it to be plausible.
Very little happens in the first half of the book, and very slowly, but the author created a nice foundation for a few themes that she could’ve really gotten into over the course of the rest of the story. For example, Meredith feels invisible because as a young girl she was labeled a quiet kid and that reputation has stuck with her and resulted in crippling anxiety. It’s complicated to break away from what people think of you when teenagers are so quick to judge each other. It would have been incredible to see Meredith fight against all that when the pact is leaked and she becomes the center of everyone’s attention at school.
But the latter half ignores what is previously established, only to cut quickly from theme to theme without going deeply into any. Everything suddenly happens to Meredith: she plays a part in rescuing an abused dog, she’s nearly raped, she’s kidnapped, she’s almost sent to a correctional camp for troubled teens, her car falls off a cliff, etc. It’s like the author thought ‘How chaotic can one’s life get in the span of a week?” and just kept throwing random problems at Meredith.
It’s like the two halves of The Anti-Virginity Pact belong to two different books. Actually, the second half is like a collage of pieces from a bunch of different books. There are no significant debates on any of the themes (which are controversial and important ones) and the messages are told in a rhetoric style that is not believable as the inner monologue of a teenager whose life is falling apart.
The author tried to include an unending number of themes in the same novel, as if that would somehow make the book more complex and important, but it’s saturated and it ended up not having a story and characters that the reader can connect to. Each one of these themes could be taken out of the book without that affecting the rest of the story. There are no cause-and-effect relationships at play here and it all comes off as shallow and not at all intense.
Besides those main “themes”, there are other smaller ones that are even less tapped into, such as homosexuality and homophobia (is an LGBT+ minor safe living with homophobic family members? Can we assume devout Christians are homophobic?). It’s a shame that the reader can’t access the thoughts and feelings of the LGBT+ character. You’re only told what the straight protagonist assumes her sister is feeling, which is internalized homophobia and shame. Meredith doesn’t even try to educate herself on the subject and you don’t know how this theme turns out. Why include it, then?
There’s also no resolution to the arcs of characters who are supposedly important. Meredith’s best friend Johanna wants to sleep with their World History teacher, but that subplot is suddenly dropped. And Sam, the romantic interest, is writing a book and wants to study journalism in college, in spite of his dad’s disapproval. Does he get into college? Does he ever finish that book? Who knows! Meredith started avoiding this guy as soon as the pact was leaked and you don’t find out much more about him from that point on. He doesn’t even go to your school, girl! He doesn’t know about the damn pact. You didn’t have to ghost him. Couldn’t Meredith have learned how to communicate with Sam instead of getting into a bunch of ridiculous situations?
A few smaller things that bugged me: at the start of the book, the protagonist uses a lot of French expressions and words (because her mom’s French), but that completely goes away after a while and it’s never brought back; Meredith’s anxiety is so bad that she keeps medication in her locker to take every day before first period, but that’s also never mentioned again and she stops acting like she suffers from anxiety; Meredith’s dad tries to take away Sex Ed from his daughters’ school – what happens with that? Was he able to, did he give up…? I have no idea.
In the end, the morality of the story is presented in a very obvious manner and it’s something like: ‘Screw FOMO, not all of us need sex, parties and popularity to live our teen years to the fullest.’ But did this girl really have to go and hurt poor Sam to come to that conclusion, and did this book have to have so many loose ends? Couldn’t the story have focused on the damn pact and on Meredith’s relationships with the people who matter?
In spite of all that, I could tell that Katie is a gifted writer and she has a lot of potential – she had a great idea, and the book is very entertaining and well-written. The issue was that she sacrificed character development in favor of including the largest number of themes she could. I can’t wait to read her next book, which will certainly be better than this one.

The author gifted me a digital galley of The Anti-Virginity Pact in exchange for an honest review.

I received an advanced readers copy from netgalley/Katie Wismer in exchange for an honest review.
I was skeptical going into this book because I have had issues reading books written by booktubers in the past. I gave this one a chance because I have been following her channel for a long time and have been enjoying watching her writing process.
I have to say even though there were questionable choices that the main character made I really enjoyed reading this book.
I really enjoyed Kate’s writing style, it was so easy to read. Her characters were well developed I never had a problem remembering who was who, which happens sometimes believe me some characters just blend together, thankfully that never happened in this book.
I never felt bored while reading, it never felt like the book was just dragging, so that’s a plus. To be completely honest I went into this with some hesitations and came out of it thoroughly pleased. I would definitely read something else written by Kate Wismer in the future.