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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Also with the second book, we went forward 5 years. Now we’re back in time to the summer directly after Shanghai…
I understand this one follows a different girl (Kris) and the second book continued/finished Farrah & Blake’s story. I just wish that we could have been a tad more chronological than these 3 books were.
Also!! Chapter 24 – I truly believe that everyone should be in the service industry once in their life, in order to appreciate the general public and how they act. This chapter really portrayed that well.
But, with all of that said, I am loving this series. I love the different girls’ personalities. This book really showcased a lot of real life struggles that people go through- grief, debt, loss, heartache, acceptance.
In this book, I wish we would have got more of the other girls/friends from their year abroad. We didn’t really get any of them, but we did in the first two. There were mentions of them, but not a lot.
medium-paced
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I've wanted to read this book since it was re-published last year & I picked it up in Walmart just to see the first sentence. It was definitely one that made me want to read more! However, I didn't like this book nearly as much as I liked the first 2 in the series. I loved the Shanghai friend group we got to know so well at the beginning of the series & it was so sad that they were hardly even mentioned in this book.
I never really grew to love Kris or Nate as the main characters and it felt like their story was just ~fine~ but I don't expect it to be one I think about often. I got a little emotional with all the talk of losing a mother because of my own experience with that. But I was never so invested in their stories that I was even close to tears. I think I had really high hopes after the first 2 books in the series and this one just kinda flopped for me.
I never really grew to love Kris or Nate as the main characters and it felt like their story was just ~fine~ but I don't expect it to be one I think about often. I got a little emotional with all the talk of losing a mother because of my own experience with that. But I was never so invested in their stories that I was even close to tears. I think I had really high hopes after the first 2 books in the series and this one just kinda flopped for me.
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Full transparency: I read the first two parts of the If Love series about four months ago, and honestly, I wasn’t interested in continuing. But as a huge Ana Huang fan who loves all her other books, I decided to give part three a shot—and I’m so glad I did!
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This is what I imagine falling in love is like for a kardashian.
This was really cute great plot lovely story but… the last 150-200 pgs of subplot were so unnecessary (tho very very juicy and entertaining could’ve been a separate book)
This was really cute great plot lovely story but… the last 150-200 pgs of subplot were so unnecessary (tho very very juicy and entertaining could’ve been a separate book)