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ritasreadingcorner's review against another edition
5.0
Yet another book I fell in love with. I don't really know what to say about this book, because it was just SO DAMN GOOD!
This story about Isla and Josh is really, really cute. It only happens on books, though. What are the chances of being your crush's crush? Yep... Anyways, their relationship is adorable. They've never loved someone so much and that's pretty obvious. It's so not like Josh and Rashmi's relationship. They were always fighting and they were together just because they didn't want to be alone. Josh and Isla are completely different. Even so, there's a lot of crap in the way of their happiness, but they are able to move past it, thank God.
It was great reading about Anna, St. Clair, Meredith, Lola and Cricket again. AND THAT PROPOSAL, OH MY GOD, SO FREAKING CUTE!!!
This story is beautiful, honestly. It's one of the most beautiful books I've ever read and I read a lot of them! This is a dream story and I loved it very much.
This story about Isla and Josh is really, really cute. It only happens on books, though. What are the chances of being your crush's crush? Yep... Anyways, their relationship is adorable. They've never loved someone so much and that's pretty obvious. It's so not like Josh and Rashmi's relationship. They were always fighting and they were together just because they didn't want to be alone. Josh and Isla are completely different. Even so, there's a lot of crap in the way of their happiness, but they are able to move past it, thank God.
It was great reading about Anna, St. Clair, Meredith, Lola and Cricket again. AND THAT PROPOSAL, OH MY GOD, SO FREAKING CUTE!!!
This story is beautiful, honestly. It's one of the most beautiful books I've ever read and I read a lot of them! This is a dream story and I loved it very much.
yukarin's review against another edition
1.0
Oh god I hated this book. Due to the fact the other two books weren't good for me, I expected to like this more. The beginning was good: Half french girl? Check, so we have a person that can speak french in the School of America in Paris. A not so stupid love interest with interests I could understand? Check. Possibly more logical girl? Nah.
But after 60 pages it all went down the river.
I had real problems when Josh and Isla were in the finish art exhibit and were super jerks to the artists. Ok, I get that not all art is pleasing for everyone. Did they (including an artist) being so jerky? nope. At this point (1/5 of the book) the "artist" characteristics of Josh died for me. A few chapters later, Isla and Josh are talking about La Louvre and other famous old art galleries and are admiring the heck out of them. Ok, old art is, also in my opinion, more pleasing than the new, abstract art. But then the scenes in Barcelona. Gaudí is an artist in the catalonian modernism. It sound so pretentious that he like one art without reasons other than it's beautiful and hates on other art. I don't get it as an artist myself.
At the point of Barcelona and the shocking not so shocking effects of it afterwards, I almost threw my ereader across the room. Due to the fact that I didn't had my physical copy with me, I switched to my computer so that it was harder to throw.
I feel like Kurt, the only sane person with a brain in this goddamn book. The more I read about him and Isla, the more I questioned why they were even friends.
Other Problems I had:
- even the mild stalking is stalking
- Isla is praised as being smart but she's almost as dumb as Anna
- I didn't understood Kurt's mental health issues as they weren't shown to us. I was not convinced that weekly activities like pizza oder sushi night would make a overly structure
- The french: I am an almost native french speaker since my grand-père is french. So I noticed a few weird sentences. Some were more like textbook or translation french but this one urks me to no end:
in chapter 22: "mon bébés" -> mes bébés it's called plural. If you write french, make sure it is grammatically correct. Or the editor should know french. -.-
- Isla's impulsiveness:
also chapter 22: "It's a freaking soap opera." Like your life isn't one.
- Unbelievableness:
chapter 25: Yeah, totally realistic given the acceptance rates of these both universities are the other way around. Also: If Isla doesn't know what she wants to do in the future for what did she apply for? In France especially Sorbonne, you need to know your "major" before applying. We still don't know what she wants to do in the end of the book as for her major!
- The ending: it was rushed given the 50+ pages of Isla ignoring Josh. The redemption wasn't there. For neither of these characters
- The "couples coming together": I felt that Lola and her boyfriend weren't depicted as they were in the previous book and it was weird
- The constant mentioning of Étienne loving Anna: I felt like this was done to "improve" the not spoken out reasons in Anna and the French Kiss to give reasons for Étiennes behaviour. So why wasn't this in the first book? It doesn't redeem the fact what happened in book one.
- The ironicness of the use of the term "happily ever after" in the middle of the book
I'm done. I love Stephanie Perkins short stories but I find to much flaws in the full length novels.
But after 60 pages it all went down the river.
I had real problems when Josh and Isla were in the finish art exhibit and were super jerks to the artists. Ok, I get that not all art is pleasing for everyone. Did they (including an artist) being so jerky? nope. At this point (1/5 of the book) the "artist" characteristics of Josh died for me. A few chapters later, Isla and Josh are talking about La Louvre and other famous old art galleries and are admiring the heck out of them. Ok, old art is, also in my opinion, more pleasing than the new, abstract art. But then the scenes in Barcelona. Gaudí is an artist in the catalonian modernism. It sound so pretentious that he like one art without reasons other than it's beautiful and hates on other art. I don't get it as an artist myself.
At the point of Barcelona and the shocking not so shocking effects of it afterwards, I almost threw my ereader across the room. Due to the fact that I didn't had my physical copy with me, I switched to my computer so that it was harder to throw.
I feel like Kurt, the only sane person with a brain in this goddamn book. The more I read about him and Isla, the more I questioned why they were even friends.
Other Problems I had:
- even the mild stalking is stalking
- Isla is praised as being smart but she's almost as dumb as Anna
- I didn't understood Kurt's mental health issues as they weren't shown to us. I was not convinced that weekly activities like pizza oder sushi night would make a overly structure
- The french: I am an almost native french speaker since my grand-père is french. So I noticed a few weird sentences. Some were more like textbook or translation french but this one urks me to no end:
in chapter 22: "mon bébés" -> mes bébés it's called plural. If you write french, make sure it is grammatically correct. Or the editor should know french. -.-
- Isla's impulsiveness:
also chapter 22: "It's a freaking soap opera." Like your life isn't one.
- Unbelievableness:
chapter 25: Yeah, totally realistic given the acceptance rates of these both universities are the other way around. Also: If Isla doesn't know what she wants to do in the future for what did she apply for? In France especially Sorbonne, you need to know your "major" before applying. We still don't know what she wants to do in the end of the book as for her major!
- The ending: it was rushed given the 50+ pages of Isla ignoring Josh. The redemption wasn't there. For neither of these characters
- The "couples coming together": I felt that Lola and her boyfriend weren't depicted as they were in the previous book and it was weird
- The constant mentioning of Étienne loving Anna: I felt like this was done to "improve" the not spoken out reasons in Anna and the French Kiss to give reasons for Étiennes behaviour. So why wasn't this in the first book? It doesn't redeem the fact what happened in book one.
- The ironicness of the use of the term "happily ever after" in the middle of the book
I'm done. I love Stephanie Perkins short stories but I find to much flaws in the full length novels.
bookph1le's review against another edition
1.0
*Sighs. Hitches up ranty pants.*
Settle in, friends, this is going to be a long one, and there will be spoilers.
I'm feeling it now, the part where I'm too old for this sort of thing. Oh, I remember what it was like to be a teenager. I was involved in a very tempestuous relationship at the time, and I felt all the things Isla feels here, but now I see it for what it was: melodramatic wangst. My reasons for disliking this book are numerous, but the never-ending, self-indulgent, relentless wangst of the whole book was by far the most painful part.
In this book, two privileged teenagers mope and fret and fall into a deep depression because they can't have what they want: each other. And why can't they have each other? Why, because of reasons, of course! Reasons, reasons, and more horribly contrived reasons. I'll break it down: none of it makes sense. They aren't together because the story demands that they feel all kinds of torment during a good stretch when, really, all they needed to do was talk to one another and straighten everything out. It could have been over in the matter of an hour, but then the book wouldn't have that long stretch of mopey misunderstanding, would it?
The thing is, I might have cared about all this moping had I cared about the characters, but I didn't. Not one bit. I absolutely adore the previous two novels in this series, which are admittedly just as melodramatic at times. But the characters in those books felt like real, three-dimensional characters with thoughts, feelings, and dreams. By contrast, Isla is THE most annoying female YA character since Bella Swan. She has no personality of her own, no dreams, no drive, no desire. As she dramatically tells us, she is a blank slate. You know what? Blank slates might be full of promise for artists, but for the rest of us they're just boring because they're blank. All we know about Isla by the end of the book is that she reads comics, like adventure novels, has two sisters, and is utterly obsessed with Josh--and, like Bella's, hers is not a healthy obsession. She cyberstalks the guy and moons over him for three years before they start dating. She tells him she's loved him for all those years. What? She doesn't even know him, so how can she possibly love him? What she has is an unhealthy fixation on him, which is made all the more evident by the downward spiral her life takes when he leaves after they've been dating for a grand total of one month. One month, and she's basically ready to chuck her entire life away, but I guess that's a symptom of her nauseating privilege too. She can afford to throw her life away because her parents have all kinds of money, so she'll be fine. Cry me a river. Can I read about a character with real problems now?
Josh is no better. He's an artist. He resents his parents, especially during his father's run for Senator, because they don't pay enough attention to him. Snore. In many ways, he's very similar to St. Clair, but the difference is that St. Clair felt like a real person while Josh felt like a cardboard representation of one. And don't even get me started on his giving Isla his manuscript to read. Huge spoiler alert here: there are panels of his naked ex-girlfriend in them, and panels of him having sex with said girlfriend. And he wonders why Isla is upset. Since she's also been sexually active in the past, I found her reaction a bit hypocritical, but she definitely shouldn't have been exposed to something like that. Who in their right mind would think showing their new girlfriend something like that would be a good idea? I get that it's his opus and all that, but doesn't it occur to him that maybe he ought not to show her graphic depictions of what he's done with his ex, especially since he knows she's crazy jealous of his ex? It's so messed up I don't even know where to begin with it. Then he has the audacity to be angry with her when she offers some constructive criticism? True, her timing sucks, but it should hardly have come as surprise to him that she wouldn't be head over heels for it.
Worse yet, their relationship is all kinds of unhealthy. The minute they start dating, neither of them cares about anything else anymore. They engage in all sorts of reckless behavior that results in his getting booted from their spoiled kid prep school, and they have the nerve to be angry with her sister and with Kurt. What? Sure, later in the book Isla comes to the realization that, guess what, she and Josh are responsible for what's happened, but I vehemently disliked her when her illicit trip to Spain with Josh was first discovered. Even when she has him, Isla can't do anything more than obsess about Josh. She combs the Internet looking for more detail on him, she stops caring about her grades, and she can't be bothered to figure out on her own where she should go to college. Again, these are horrible, privilege-soaked problems. She all but throws away her entire future for a boy she's dated for four whole weeks.
I hate that message. I hate that these books, in many ways, promote the idea that young love like this is the be all and end all. It's not healthy. I know it feels that way at the time--I really, really remember how viscerally I felt it when I was seventeen--but that doesn't make the way it's portrayed here right. Now that I think about it, in every book in this series, the couples end up building their whole future around one another. Instead of pursuing the things they want in the best places to pursue them, they make compromises. Yes, compromises are necessary in love, but NOT when it's your whole future you're talking about. And while it's sweet that St. Clair and Anna get engaged in a significant spot in Paris, they are NINETEEN. Nineteen. No. I'm tired of YA authors equating young love with destiny. I know this is hardly a new thing, but that makes it even worse. Shouldn't we be more enlightened by this point? Shouldn't we be emphasizing to young people that, while their relationships are important, so are their futures? Shouldn't we encourage them to explore, to set goals to try to get all they want out of life? Shouldn't we tell them that if the love is real, it will wait until those important goals are met? Instead, books like this gloss over the fact that permanently altering the course of your life for someone will have lifelong consequences and may lead to lifelong regrets.
I'm sure by now it's obvious how vehemently I dislike this book. I'm sorry that I read it. It's left a bad taste in my mouth for the entire series. I keep returning to a blurb from another YA author, Tahereh Mafi, who calls Perkins the "Jane Austen of our generation". Are you for serious? You must not be reading the same Austen novels I've read, because in those books Austen's heroines are firmly and always true to themselves. They make mistakes, they act badly, but never do they compromise their own hopes, dreams, and beliefs. Elizabeth Bennet would shudder at the thought of being compared to a character like Isla because, unlike Isla, Elizabeth knows that believing in her own convictions, in staying true to her own character, is the most important thing a person can do. I think I need to go read Jane Eyre to purge myself of this book.
Settle in, friends, this is going to be a long one, and there will be spoilers.
I'm feeling it now, the part where I'm too old for this sort of thing. Oh, I remember what it was like to be a teenager. I was involved in a very tempestuous relationship at the time, and I felt all the things Isla feels here, but now I see it for what it was: melodramatic wangst. My reasons for disliking this book are numerous, but the never-ending, self-indulgent, relentless wangst of the whole book was by far the most painful part.
In this book, two privileged teenagers mope and fret and fall into a deep depression because they can't have what they want: each other. And why can't they have each other? Why, because of reasons, of course! Reasons, reasons, and more horribly contrived reasons. I'll break it down: none of it makes sense. They aren't together because the story demands that they feel all kinds of torment during a good stretch when, really, all they needed to do was talk to one another and straighten everything out. It could have been over in the matter of an hour, but then the book wouldn't have that long stretch of mopey misunderstanding, would it?
The thing is, I might have cared about all this moping had I cared about the characters, but I didn't. Not one bit. I absolutely adore the previous two novels in this series, which are admittedly just as melodramatic at times. But the characters in those books felt like real, three-dimensional characters with thoughts, feelings, and dreams. By contrast, Isla is THE most annoying female YA character since Bella Swan. She has no personality of her own, no dreams, no drive, no desire. As she dramatically tells us, she is a blank slate. You know what? Blank slates might be full of promise for artists, but for the rest of us they're just boring because they're blank. All we know about Isla by the end of the book is that she reads comics, like adventure novels, has two sisters, and is utterly obsessed with Josh--and, like Bella's, hers is not a healthy obsession. She cyberstalks the guy and moons over him for three years before they start dating. She tells him she's loved him for all those years. What? She doesn't even know him, so how can she possibly love him? What she has is an unhealthy fixation on him, which is made all the more evident by the downward spiral her life takes when he leaves after they've been dating for a grand total of one month. One month, and she's basically ready to chuck her entire life away, but I guess that's a symptom of her nauseating privilege too. She can afford to throw her life away because her parents have all kinds of money, so she'll be fine. Cry me a river. Can I read about a character with real problems now?
Josh is no better. He's an artist. He resents his parents, especially during his father's run for Senator, because they don't pay enough attention to him. Snore. In many ways, he's very similar to St. Clair, but the difference is that St. Clair felt like a real person while Josh felt like a cardboard representation of one. And don't even get me started on his giving Isla his manuscript to read. Huge spoiler alert here: there are panels of his naked ex-girlfriend in them, and panels of him having sex with said girlfriend. And he wonders why Isla is upset. Since she's also been sexually active in the past, I found her reaction a bit hypocritical, but she definitely shouldn't have been exposed to something like that. Who in their right mind would think showing their new girlfriend something like that would be a good idea? I get that it's his opus and all that, but doesn't it occur to him that maybe he ought not to show her graphic depictions of what he's done with his ex, especially since he knows she's crazy jealous of his ex? It's so messed up I don't even know where to begin with it. Then he has the audacity to be angry with her when she offers some constructive criticism? True, her timing sucks, but it should hardly have come as surprise to him that she wouldn't be head over heels for it.
Worse yet, their relationship is all kinds of unhealthy. The minute they start dating, neither of them cares about anything else anymore. They engage in all sorts of reckless behavior that results in his getting booted from their spoiled kid prep school, and they have the nerve to be angry with her sister and with Kurt. What? Sure, later in the book Isla comes to the realization that, guess what, she and Josh are responsible for what's happened, but I vehemently disliked her when her illicit trip to Spain with Josh was first discovered. Even when she has him, Isla can't do anything more than obsess about Josh. She combs the Internet looking for more detail on him, she stops caring about her grades, and she can't be bothered to figure out on her own where she should go to college. Again, these are horrible, privilege-soaked problems. She all but throws away her entire future for a boy she's dated for four whole weeks.
I hate that message. I hate that these books, in many ways, promote the idea that young love like this is the be all and end all. It's not healthy. I know it feels that way at the time--I really, really remember how viscerally I felt it when I was seventeen--but that doesn't make the way it's portrayed here right. Now that I think about it, in every book in this series, the couples end up building their whole future around one another. Instead of pursuing the things they want in the best places to pursue them, they make compromises. Yes, compromises are necessary in love, but NOT when it's your whole future you're talking about. And while it's sweet that St. Clair and Anna get engaged in a significant spot in Paris, they are NINETEEN. Nineteen. No. I'm tired of YA authors equating young love with destiny. I know this is hardly a new thing, but that makes it even worse. Shouldn't we be more enlightened by this point? Shouldn't we be emphasizing to young people that, while their relationships are important, so are their futures? Shouldn't we encourage them to explore, to set goals to try to get all they want out of life? Shouldn't we tell them that if the love is real, it will wait until those important goals are met? Instead, books like this gloss over the fact that permanently altering the course of your life for someone will have lifelong consequences and may lead to lifelong regrets.
I'm sure by now it's obvious how vehemently I dislike this book. I'm sorry that I read it. It's left a bad taste in my mouth for the entire series. I keep returning to a blurb from another YA author, Tahereh Mafi, who calls Perkins the "Jane Austen of our generation". Are you for serious? You must not be reading the same Austen novels I've read, because in those books Austen's heroines are firmly and always true to themselves. They make mistakes, they act badly, but never do they compromise their own hopes, dreams, and beliefs. Elizabeth Bennet would shudder at the thought of being compared to a character like Isla because, unlike Isla, Elizabeth knows that believing in her own convictions, in staying true to her own character, is the most important thing a person can do. I think I need to go read Jane Eyre to purge myself of this book.
kaulhilo's review against another edition
5.0
LAST BOOK I'LL BE READING FOR A WHILE. Sigh.
Here's the review; I LOVED IT. A two-day-younger version of me would not believe that I'm saying this, because i disliked the book when I started it. And then I read it anyway, because oh well. This book. Is. Undiluted. Magic. It's spot on perfect, everything and everyone. And ANNA AND ST.CLAIR GOT ENGAGED OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!?! OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD! And the Isla and Joshua bit "I have always loved you" sOMEONE STAB ME IN THE FACE RIGHT NOW!!!! "there is no story" "i just saw you" "and i knew" I LOVE THEM SO SO MUCH. Wow, this was such an unexpected book. Did NOT expect to even like it, but oh MY GOD someone hELP mE. please please please please please please read it,,, if you love yourself?? Read it. if you care for humanity??? read it. if you like pretty girls???? read it. if you're alive??? READ IT.
Here's the review; I LOVED IT. A two-day-younger version of me would not believe that I'm saying this, because i disliked the book when I started it. And then I read it anyway, because oh well. This book. Is. Undiluted. Magic. It's spot on perfect, everything and everyone. And ANNA AND ST.CLAIR GOT ENGAGED OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!?! OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD! And the Isla and Joshua bit "I have always loved you" sOMEONE STAB ME IN THE FACE RIGHT NOW!!!! "there is no story" "i just saw you" "and i knew" I LOVE THEM SO SO MUCH. Wow, this was such an unexpected book. Did NOT expect to even like it, but oh MY GOD someone hELP mE. please please please please please please read it,,, if you love yourself?? Read it. if you care for humanity??? read it. if you like pretty girls???? read it. if you're alive??? READ IT.
mehsi's review against another edition
2.0
Let's just start with: I loved the other books, they were romantic, sweet and beautiful. This one, however, was not.
I enjoyed it quite a bit, there were a lot of funny parts, however I didn't like the relationship of Josh and Isla. It was so unrealistic, so strange. I mean, come on, they have been in a relationship for a month, and they act like they are married, have sex, do stuff they are not supposed to do and so much more . I just didn't feel like it was real, just all fake. In the other books the romance was done better, more realistically and more fitting. Josh and Isla didn't feel like they fitted together. I think it would have been better if the relationship was longer, like 6 months, that would make it more believable than a big portion of the book about a 1 month relationship. It is a real shame, I was looking forward to this one, especially since I loved the previous ones.
And I got a bit tired of their over-sexuality. They kissed everywhere, no matter how inappropriate or strange. It was just awkward.
Isla is only a so-so character, I felt like she was a bit too attached to Josh, neglecting other things (friends, family and most importantly, studying). I didn't like how she was just stalking him everywhere ever since Freshman, how desperate are you? Seriously? At times I felt Isla was devoid of character, or that her character was just: JOSH JOSH JOSH OMG JOSH, and nothing else.
Josh was so-so too, I didn't like his character too much. I am not sure why, but I just didn't like his personality.
And they are such drama-queens, the both of them. Oh boohoo I did something wrong, and now I have to be separated from my ONE TRUE LOVE (whom you have only been with for a month, so wow). *sniffle sniffle*Nope. Sorry, but the whining at the end, just turned me off so much. They both act like complete idiots, and all because they have to be separated. Girl (and also boy), that is how life is, you can't be with each other 24/7/365. And besides you did something wrong, what did you expect? Oh teehehehe you ran away to another f-ing country and nothing will happen? No, especially with Josh his history and detentions, you could have expected this.
It was just sooo pathetic to see them act like this. Josh desparate and strange (why would anyone in their right minds sent drawn pages about your life which includes sex with ex-girlfriends, to a girlfriend. And then think it is ok.... What?????? No)
Then we have Kurt, who I am sure is around 17 years old. You don't sleep in one bed with your male-friend. Just no. Not at that age. You can do that when you are 10 or so, but not when you are that age. And Isla was just an idiot. Why would you think people think you are having a relationship with Kurt. Maybe because he spends every waking hour with you and even sleeps in your f-ing bed???? *rolls eys* I also didn't like Kurt that much, I found him mostly annoying and I often thought he was more of a puppy than a human boy.
Hattie was just Hattie, I really hated her guts and all that she did. Even with everything that happened near the ending, I still can't and won't like her.
I was happy to see characters from the other books back, hear that they are doing fine and are happy. And that ending, with Anna and St. Clair, ah *swoons*. It was just perfect. So happy to see that happen.
Would I recommend this book? No. However, I would recommend you all pop to page 347 (of the paperback) and swoon over St. Clair and Anna's wonderful scene of romance. And maybe read the few pages before that as well since that contains some Lola + Cricket. <3
Review first posted at http://twirlingbookprincess.com/
I enjoyed it quite a bit, there were a lot of funny parts, however I didn't like the relationship of Josh and Isla. It was so unrealistic, so strange. I mean, come on, they have been in a relationship for a month, and they act like they are married, have sex, do stuff they are not supposed to do and so much more . I just didn't feel like it was real, just all fake. In the other books the romance was done better, more realistically and more fitting. Josh and Isla didn't feel like they fitted together. I think it would have been better if the relationship was longer, like 6 months, that would make it more believable than a big portion of the book about a 1 month relationship. It is a real shame, I was looking forward to this one, especially since I loved the previous ones.
And I got a bit tired of their over-sexuality. They kissed everywhere, no matter how inappropriate or strange. It was just awkward.
Isla is only a so-so character, I felt like she was a bit too attached to Josh, neglecting other things (friends, family and most importantly, studying). I didn't like how she was just stalking him everywhere ever since Freshman, how desperate are you? Seriously? At times I felt Isla was devoid of character, or that her character was just: JOSH JOSH JOSH OMG JOSH, and nothing else.
Josh was so-so too, I didn't like his character too much. I am not sure why, but I just didn't like his personality.
And they are such drama-queens, the both of them. Oh boohoo I did something wrong, and now I have to be separated from my ONE TRUE LOVE (whom you have only been with for a month, so wow). *sniffle sniffle*Nope. Sorry, but the whining at the end, just turned me off so much. They both act like complete idiots, and all because they have to be separated. Girl (and also boy), that is how life is, you can't be with each other 24/7/365. And besides you did something wrong, what did you expect? Oh teehehehe you ran away to another f-ing country and nothing will happen? No, especially with Josh his history and detentions, you could have expected this.
It was just sooo pathetic to see them act like this. Josh desparate and strange (why would anyone in their right minds sent drawn pages about your life which includes sex with ex-girlfriends, to a girlfriend. And then think it is ok.... What?????? No)
Then we have Kurt, who I am sure is around 17 years old. You don't sleep in one bed with your male-friend. Just no. Not at that age. You can do that when you are 10 or so, but not when you are that age. And Isla was just an idiot. Why would you think people think you are having a relationship with Kurt. Maybe because he spends every waking hour with you and even sleeps in your f-ing bed???? *rolls eys* I also didn't like Kurt that much, I found him mostly annoying and I often thought he was more of a puppy than a human boy.
Hattie was just Hattie, I really hated her guts and all that she did. Even with everything that happened near the ending, I still can't and won't like her.
I was happy to see characters from the other books back, hear that they are doing fine and are happy. And that ending, with Anna and St. Clair, ah *swoons*. It was just perfect. So happy to see that happen.
Would I recommend this book? No. However, I would recommend you all pop to page 347 (of the paperback) and swoon over St. Clair and Anna's wonderful scene of romance. And maybe read the few pages before that as well since that contains some Lola + Cricket. <3
Review first posted at http://twirlingbookprincess.com/
eggjen's review against another edition
3.0
Really deserves 3.5 stars. Compulsively readable but the main characters choices throughout the book drove me batty.
alidy's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
3.5