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To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)

by Jenny Han (Goodreads Author)

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Cadriana said: " To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han is a young adult romance novel. It’s a story about Lara Jean, a 16 year old girl who is extremely close to her older sister Margot and younger sister Kitty. Their mom passed away when they were younger s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han is a young adult romance novel. It’s a story about Lara Jean, a 16 year old girl who is extremely close to her older sister Margot and younger sister Kitty. Their mom passed away when they were younger so they don’t really remember a lot. She had wrote love letters to all her elementary crushes that she kept in a teal hatbox given to her by her mother and they all got sent out. Peter Kavinsky, one of the guys Lara Jean wrote a letter to, comes up to her and tells her he does not have any type of feelings for her. Lara Jean is confused, but realizes that he is referring to a letter she wrote him years ago after he received it in the mail. She was horrified and tells him she wrote a long time ago. Lara Jean tries to remember why she wrote that letter: when she was in seventh grade, she and Peter were with a group of mutual friends when Peter kissed her. Margot’s ex boyfriend Josh had also got a letter and asked Lara Jean and she lied and told him she no longer had feelings for him and that she has a boyfriend. He asked who and all Lara Jean could think of is Peter so she had to tell Peter to go along with the lie that they were dating after Pater and his long term girlfriend Genevieve had just broken up. On a school ski trip, Peter tells Lara Jean he does want to date her and they kiss in a hot tub. The following day, Genevieve tells her that there is a rumor that the two had sex in the hot tub, and Peter did not deny it. Lara Jean was so embarrassed and ignored Peter all christmas break. Kitty invites him over to the Covey's recital party which they had every year before their mother died. When Peter tries to talk to Lara Jean, Josh steps in to try and protect her, and Margot ends up hearing about how Lara Jean liked Josh and Margot gets very upset. Margot and Lara Jean eventually talk it out but Lara Jean stays angry at Peter until Kitty admits that she stole her sister's hatbox and mailed the letters to try and get back at Lara Jean for almost revealing her crush on Josh. Lara Jean forgives Kitty and Kitty tells Lara Jean that Peter really cares for her and returns the hatbox that is now filled with notes that Peter gave Lara Jean while they were fake-dating. Lara Jean has a change of heart and takes out her pen and paper to write a real love letter to Peter.

One quote that really stood out to me was when Lara Jean said, “love is scary: it changes; it can go away. that’s the part of the risk. i don’t want to be scared anymore.” in chapter 72. This quote really hit me because it relates to me a lot and you shouldn’t take things like that for granted because it really damages and you won’t realize the appreciation and importance of what you have until it’s gone. When you fall in love you’re so attached and afraid of that person leaving you and hurting you. Pain changes people, it makes them trust less, overthink more and shut people out. I think that’s what she means when she doesn’t want to be scared anymore and how it changes and goes away. You can’t look for happiness in the same place you lost and sometimes we have to accept that everything happens for a reason even if we don’t want to hear that reason.
I give this book a rating of 4 out of 5 stars. I gave this rating because the book and the movie don’t have a lot of the same things in them. Also the book was off to a kind of boring and slow start and i wasn’t really interested at first. This is why i gave this rating.
I would definitely recommend this book to a friend. I would say people that like love and romance. ...more "

Jan 17, 2019 05:43PM · see review