To All the Boys I've Loved Before
by Jenny Han
Lara Jean is a nervous girl. She's always been afraid to stretch and do new things. She's always allowed her older sister, Margot, to take over and run things. But when Margot leaves to go to college in Scotland, Lara Jean can't hide anymore; she's got to be the girl in charge.
When Lara Jean was younger and would fall in love, she'd write love letters to her crushes as a way to get out her feelings, but then she'd pack those letters into a hatbox given to her by her mother and hide them away.
Somehow, the letters get out and get mailed.
Now Lara Jean must not only take care of her younger sister, take care of the house, and start to grow into the girl she's meant to be, but she must also contend with all the boys getting their letters.
The worst may be that one of her former crushes is her older sister's boyfriend.
This could get interesting...
Final thoughts: This was a put down/pick up book that took me too long to get through. My biggest problem was at the start of the book so it tainted everything else from that point on. Lara Jean is a super nervous driver and hates driving anywhere. She's ultra paranoid in the car, so it makes absolutely no sense that she would see a stop sign and then intentionally blow through it. It's a forced plot device to make Lara Jean need other people for a bit and it's completely out of character for what the author had set up during the previous pages. That stupidity made me kind of hate the character and it never really resolved. The ending just came out of nowhere and left everything pretty much unresolved. It's not really a cliffhanger, but it's not an HEA either. Not planning to read the sequel.
Rating: 2/5
