Rating: 1.5/5

12/16/2019 - 12/16/2019

This is the most long-winded pining I have ever read. I picked up the book after a friend recommended it to me. I'm really not one for this level of cliche, and it’s rare for writers to use this amount well. Borderline dnf’d. I finished just to see how it would turn out, but I was disappointed.

Lara Jean is exhausting to read, and for someone who was meant to have these heavy and deep thoughts about love and infatuation, she fell flat of a middle schooler's understanding of relationships.

Maybe that was the point though since she hasn't had experiences directly with romantic love. Though, if that was the point, it was not well articulated.

Her entire thing about her sister's brother is also just tiresome and magically remained unresolved? Where was the arc? Or her character growth past not liking someone to liking someone?

Rare that a movie is better than the book, but I also did not like the film much.