This is my 4th book of the year. It is To All the boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han. I am going to keep things sweet and simple for the first bit, then I will dive into spoilers.
Starting off, I have had this book for quite some time now. I had gotten it a little after I watched the movie. It’s been about 5 years now since I had seen the movie (Gonna have to go watch it again). I started the book once upon a time ago, then I put it down for what ever reason (couldn’t tell you even if I wanted to), and then I never picked it back up. It became one of those books that I would maybe read one day or never at all simple because I had started at some point.
My favorite podcast, Books Unbound, calls these types of books Mash Potato books. Books that you plan to read some day but have just been putting off for so long. If you want their exact definition, then I suggest going and listening to their podcast. This book became a Mash Potato Book, along with many others, but I have finally read it and I am so glad I did.
I enjoyed about every part of this book. The beginning was a struggle to get through, which might have been why I stopped the first time, but after that, I was having a good time for the whole story.
This book is about Lara Jean a high school student who is just trying to survive her first year without her oldest sister, now that she had moved across the world for college. Right as the school year starts, Lara Jean’s love letters that she has written over the year somehow gets mailed out to all the boys she had liked. She had written these letters for herself, as a way to get over the boys, but after they go missing and some of these boys start approaching her about them, things fall into chaos. She ends up having to fake date a guy just to keep the boy she really likes from knowing. Will she succeed?
I thought this book was well put together when it came to the relationships over all of the characters. It gives off small town vibes because all the characters have grown up together and have known each other since elementary school. This added some drama that was excepted. I am frustrated that I waited this long to read the dang book, because now I am going to have to go out and buy the other in the series to know what happens next.
It is now spoiler time.
I for the most part already new what was going to happen in the book, especially since I had already seen the movie. But because it was 5 years ago, I knew I wasn’t going to remember much, like the fight that Lara Jean and Margot have when Margot finds out that Lara Jean liked Josh. That was so much drama that I wasn’t expecting, nor do I remember from the movie.
Also I really enjoyed Lara Jean and Peter’s little field trip to that estate sale. That was another thing that I don’t remember seeing in the movie. I thought it was really cool the amount of things that they were doing together, by themselves, when they really didn’t have to. They would go to this shop or that, or the estate sale. Even though they were fake dating, it felt so real most of the time, all the stuff they were doing together. Which I think is good on the authors part because it shows how much the reader also starts to believe that they are falling for each other.
If you haven’t watch the movie already then I highly recommend it. I also recommend watching X.O.X.O. Kitty, a show on Netflix. It follows Kitty’s life as she enters high school. That was also a really good show. Anyway, that is all for today, I have a plane to catch and I hope you have a lovely day. Happy Readings!