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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
This was the fastest romance book. they fall in love at 15% lmao what is the other 75% of the book for ? isla is nice and so so sweet and josh is bf material. i can’t hate on them. they are stupid tho. like bro. think with your head ?
Reread:
08/06/19
08/18/14: I don't know why it has taken me so long to review this book, maybe because I can't say much other than "I loved it". I am in love with Stephanie Perkins' world she has created around these three girls...Anna, Lola, and Isla. It's not just the plot but the scene she sets in each city, each book. So I decided not to bother with a normal review and just give you my favorite lines. Obviously, this will have all kinds of spoilers but I figure you've either read this already or never heard of it. So if you've already read it, enjoy and share your favorite parts below! And if you haven't read it, stop here, go read my review of Anna & The French Kiss, and get thee to a bookstore! :)
...it opens with the delicious crack of a hard spine being tested for the first time.<--This is exactly *exactly* how I felt opening this book.
Whenever he enters a room, an unmistakable mass of chaotic energy enters with him. It rattles the air between us. It buzzes and hums. And every time we surrender--every time our eyes meet in a flash of nerve--a shock wave jolts throughout my entire system. I feel frayed. Excited. Unraveled.
But when someone who knows him doesn't even want to try to understand him? No, I can't forgive that.
"You read a lot."
"Safer than going on a real adventure."
"I like that you're tiny. I like that I could carry you around in my pocket."
"Mon petit chou." My little cabbage.
"I feel like this...awkward giant around you. You're like this perfect porcelain doll. Delicate and sweet and pretty."
I'm covered in garden roses, spinning compasses, falling leaves, desert islands, Joshua trees, and intricate geometric patterns. It's beautiful. I'm beautiful.
"I love you. I have *always* loved you."
"There's no story. I saw you one day, and I just knew."
"I like the temple's reflecting pool. I kind of just wanted to sit beside it and make out with you."
Josh is a beautiful, messy, passionate work of art, and I'm...a blank canvas.
"...for once in your life, Isla, take a risk. Take a fucking risk. If you keep playing it safe, you'll never know who you are. I know who you are, and I love who you are."
How do people even make friends? How does that happen?
Silver-white flakes catch in our tangle of red hair.
"Something better is about to happen."
Anna and St Clair are standing on top of Point Zero.
Anna's entire body lights with shock and joy and love.
Blogged at SeeJennRead
08/06/19
08/18/14: I don't know why it has taken me so long to review this book, maybe because I can't say much other than "I loved it". I am in love with Stephanie Perkins' world she has created around these three girls...Anna, Lola, and Isla. It's not just the plot but the scene she sets in each city, each book. So I decided not to bother with a normal review and just give you my favorite lines. Obviously, this will have all kinds of spoilers but I figure you've either read this already or never heard of it. So if you've already read it, enjoy and share your favorite parts below! And if you haven't read it, stop here, go read my review of Anna & The French Kiss, and get thee to a bookstore! :)
...it opens with the delicious crack of a hard spine being tested for the first time.<--This is exactly *exactly* how I felt opening this book.
Whenever he enters a room, an unmistakable mass of chaotic energy enters with him. It rattles the air between us. It buzzes and hums. And every time we surrender--every time our eyes meet in a flash of nerve--a shock wave jolts throughout my entire system. I feel frayed. Excited. Unraveled.
But when someone who knows him doesn't even want to try to understand him? No, I can't forgive that.
"You read a lot."
"Safer than going on a real adventure."
"I like that you're tiny. I like that I could carry you around in my pocket."
"Mon petit chou." My little cabbage.
"I feel like this...awkward giant around you. You're like this perfect porcelain doll. Delicate and sweet and pretty."
I'm covered in garden roses, spinning compasses, falling leaves, desert islands, Joshua trees, and intricate geometric patterns. It's beautiful. I'm beautiful.
"I love you. I have *always* loved you."
"There's no story. I saw you one day, and I just knew."
"I like the temple's reflecting pool. I kind of just wanted to sit beside it and make out with you."
Josh is a beautiful, messy, passionate work of art, and I'm...a blank canvas.
"...for once in your life, Isla, take a risk. Take a fucking risk. If you keep playing it safe, you'll never know who you are. I know who you are, and I love who you are."
How do people even make friends? How does that happen?
Silver-white flakes catch in our tangle of red hair.
"Something better is about to happen."
Anna and St Clair are standing on top of Point Zero.
Anna's entire body lights with shock and joy and love.
Blogged at SeeJennRead
PERFECT. I finished it in under 2 days, great ending to one of my favorite trilogies :) I think it is probably my favorite out of the 3 too.
It's more a 4.5!
It’s a really sweet book, the main character Isla is very relatable and I loved that. Even if it was not the best book of the series, it was still pretty good and the part with the characters from the other books was amazing
It’s a really sweet book, the main character Isla is very relatable and I loved that. Even if it was not the best book of the series, it was still pretty good and the part with the characters from the other books was amazing
Where Anna and the French Kiss felt like a warm hug, Isla and the Happily Ever After felt like a comforting blanket snuggling me in the best way. The ups and downs were so fluid and easy and breath taking all in their own way. It's kind of a bittersweet moment that finishing this book means the end of my favourite contemporary series. It was a roller coaster of emotion but ending in the best of ways. Stephanie Perkins' characters leap off the page shouting at you to feel for them and to understand them, all with their own quirks and personalities. I've never felt so strongly for a series before and I honestly believe I will never find another series that I will love the way I love these. What a whirlwind it's been reading these books, and I can't wait for the next thing Stephanie puts out. She is officially being marked down as one of my favourite authors.
I liked this less than I liked Anna and the French Kiss, not sure why. I was afraid it would rely too heavily on the first book instead of building up the new characters, but that wasn't the case. One thing I didn't like is that there's random little points that are irrelevant to anything else that happens in the book. Like, at one point she talks about how she feels her period coming on and it feels like an Important Sentence when you first read it and I was afraid the author would pull a teen pregnancy card but (thank god) she didn't. And then I was left wondering if I should have found it funny. Anyway, that didn't really affect me much, it was just something I kept thinking back to. Isla and Josh were cool, I liked them. It was nice, cute.
P.S. In what world does a person only apply to two very selective colleges. And how does someone who apply to Columbia not know of Dartmouth. When will YA novels become realistic about college.
P.S. In what world does a person only apply to two very selective colleges. And how does someone who apply to Columbia not know of Dartmouth. When will YA novels become realistic about college.
Anna and St. Clair getting engaged was super cringey... surprisingly enough, i didn't dislike this book as much as the other two.
I did like this. Maybe because Josh was one of my favorite characters in Anna and the French kiss so I can never not like him.
I was really into this in the beginning but then I feel like things got a little rushed, maybe? Their relationship went very fast! I didn't really like Isla (and sometimes not Kurt) and that just made it very hard to read because the whole thing is seen from her perspective.
But can we please just talk about the ending? I LOVED THE ENDING! WITH ALL THE OLD CHARACTERS AND STUFF! My favorite part of the entire book!!
I was really into this in the beginning but then I feel like things got a little rushed, maybe? Their relationship went very fast! I didn't really like Isla (and sometimes not Kurt) and that just made it very hard to read because the whole thing is seen from her perspective.
But can we please just talk about the ending? I LOVED THE ENDING! WITH ALL THE OLD CHARACTERS AND STUFF! My favorite part of the entire book!!
I cried several times reading this book. I thought it was beautiful.