Kiss Me, Captain
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Fan Fact · Kiss Me, Captain
Where can I read Kiss Me, Captain, and is it finished?
Kiss Me, Captain is published on My Passion, where it runs to 165 chapters. In the My Passion mobile app you can unlock chapters for free with daily coins and by watching ads; on my-passion.com chapters are unlocked with a subscription. No continuation beyond chapter 165 has been officially announced.
Author Note · Kiss Me, Captain
How Kiss Me, Captain Turns a Lost Friendship Into a Rivalry
Kiss Me, Captain builds the rivalry out of what the friendship left behind. Emily and Maddie fight with details only a childhood best friend would know. The ice keeps score for them in public. Old games and routines keep surfacing as a second, softer language, and through chapter 30 the rivalry slowly turns into a shared title rather than a contest.
Author Note · Kiss Me, Captain
What Kiss Me, Captain Is Really About: Performing Versus Being Seen
Under the enemies-to-lovers rivalry, Kiss Me, Captain is about performance. Both girls play roles to get through Lakeview. Maddie fakes wealth and a boyfriend, and Emily calls her feelings an experiment. The ice is the one place where faking doesn't work, and through chapter 50 the story asks what it costs to stop acting and be seen.
Fan Fact · Kiss Me, Captain
How does Kiss Me, Captain end?
We won't spoil the ending, but here's what the final stretch is fighting over. By chapter 121, Maddie has chosen to transfer and Emily is skating through heartbreak. Then Emily learns that Victoria Hughes, the woman arranging Maddie's transfer, will be head judge at their next major competition. The book answers the rest from chapter 121.
Fan Fact · Kiss Me, Captain
Why does Maddie break up with Emily in Kiss Me, Captain?
Maddie breaks up with Emily by text in chapter 118. She says she's staying home, transferring, and that they aren't good for each other. Behind it are exhaustion, Coach's warning that the relationship was hurting their skating, unfair scores at Regionals, and steady pressure from her father and Victoria Hughes to start fresh somewhere else.
Fan Fact · Kiss Me, Captain
Does Maddie come out to her parents in Kiss Me, Captain?
Yes. In chapter 64, Maddie sits down with her parents at a park picnic table and tells them she's gay and in love with Emily. It goes badly. Her father, David Reyes, calls it confusion and a sin and makes her skating and schooling depend on ending the relationship. Her mother, Hanna, says she loves her but follows him.
Fan Fact · Kiss Me, Captain
Who sabotaged Maddie's skates in Kiss Me, Captain?
Carol Martinez sabotaged Maddie's skates. In chapter 49, investigator Madeline Foster reports that Carol confessed to tampering with them. Three girls now face criminal charges, and the case is closed. Carol belonged to Jenna Caldwell's circle and had been cut from the Nationals roster shortly before the competition where Maddie fell.
Fan Fact · Kiss Me, Captain
Why did Emily and Maddie stop writing to each other in Kiss Me, Captain?
Neither of them chose to stop. Maddie kept writing after her family moved, but her letters went to Emily's old house on Maple Street. Weeks after Maddie left, Emily's family had moved to an apartment on Cedar following her parents' divorce, so the letters never reached Emily. Each girl believed the other had forgotten her.
Character Insight · Kiss Me, Captain
Who is Victoria Hughes, and what does she want from Maddie?
Victoria Hughes is a former Olympic silver medalist who heads the Regional Selection Committee. She comes into Maddie's life through her father, David Reyes. What she plainly wants is for Maddie to leave Lakeview, which also means leaving Emily, and she frames the transfer as a fresh start and as mentorship. Her deeper motive stays hidden.
Character Insight · Kiss Me, Captain
Why doesn't Emily give up on Maddie?
Emily keeps telling Maddie she can see the real girl underneath. The lost letters show both of them felt abandoned, so Maddie's coldness reads differently once that comes out. Emily's loyalty still has a condition, though. She walks away once when Maddie stays silent, and she keeps asking Maddie to stop hiding and be brave.
Character Insight · Kiss Me, Captain
Is Maddie's father, David Reyes, the villain of Kiss Me, Captain?
Up to chapter 110, David Reyes puts more pressure on Maddie than anyone else in her story, but the book hasn't confirmed he's a villain. He condemns her relationship and cuts off her tuition. Then he comes back with apologies, offers of help and a plan to move her to Denver. The book still hasn't shown whether his change is sincere or strategic.
Character Insight · Kiss Me, Captain
Why does Maddie keep running from Emily in Kiss Me, Captain?
For Maddie, closeness has always come at a price. Her letters went unanswered when she was thirteen, bullying taught her to hide, and her father's love came with conditions. Emily insists the real Maddie is still there under the act. So whenever being seen feels dangerous, Maddie leaves first, before anyone can leave her, judge her or cut her off again.