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A review by booksandbraids
Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins
5.0
Why are there so many bad reviews for this book? I am so glad that I did not see them before reading it. I thought it was perfection. Absolute perfection. I cannot get over how much I loved this book. I think I might have liked it as much as the first. It had the same vibe and the same adorable yet just steamy enough romance that I was NOT expecting from a YA book. Especially not these YA books. For YEARS I have wanted to read this series but also looked down on it as well. I thought it would be too YA, too high school drama. But it wasn't. It was such a perfect series of love stories. And this last book wrapped it up so well. I LOVE that we got to see St. Clair propose to Anna in Paris. I LOVE that we got to see Cricket and Lola in all their colorful glory. I LOVE that we got to see Calliope win gold at the Olympics. It was perfection. I have been crying for the last 30+ pages from both sadness and joy. It was perfection.
I am going to copy my commentary from while reading below.
- Pg 3 she got her wisdom teeth out that morning and she is out in public by herself talking?? Ummm ya. No. I’m pretty sure the first day after I got mine out I was still mostly out of it from the anesthesia. I was swollen I looked like a chipmunk. And I slept for most of the afternoon. I sure as shit would not have been allowed to wonder the city alone, nor would I have wanted to. And had I been in public and seen a cute boy I was crushing on I would have ran
- Pg 99 “Your footwear tends to run on the exceedingly tall side. You know we all know you’re short, right? It’s not, like, a secret.”
- They are the same heights as my husband and I. A full foot difference. I now see why she wanted to wear heels to aid in the possibility of a first kiss 😂
- Pg 112. The phantom’s opera house. There’s a real opera house where the story is based???
- Pg 144 These books have all surprised me by how 🌶 they are for YA books
- Pg 147 you guys are totally going to get caught again and get suspended.
- Pg 149 “And you'll get into them all. But you'll accept Dartmouth. And we'll get a studio on the river- which will still be bigger than this- and a cat that looks like Jacque, but we'll call him Jack. And we'll get a crappy car, something that doesn't even have AC, but it'll have a great radio, and we'll drive someplace new every weekend."
- Pg 178 “He follows me in, and we brush our teeth, We can't stop smiling at each other. I can't believe that adults get to do this every da; And I don't even mean sex, though it's wonderful, but things like this. Brushing our teeth at the same sink. Do adults realize how lucky they are? Or do they forget that these small moments are actually small miracles? I don't want to ever forget.”
- Everything is going so perfectly. The book is only half way through. I’m not looking forward to when the third quarter drama begins… I like them being happy and I don’t want to see their relationship struggle 🥺
- Pg 274 the relationship imploded. I am sad 😢
- Pg 304 😭
- Pg 313 Omg St Clair just proposed to Anna. Now I’m crying happy tears 🥹
I am going to copy my commentary from while reading below.
- Pg 99 “Your footwear tends to run on the exceedingly tall side. You know we all know you’re short, right? It’s not, like, a secret.”
- They are the same heights as my husband and I. A full foot difference. I now see why she wanted to wear heels to aid in the possibility of a first kiss 😂
- Pg 112. The phantom’s opera house. There’s a real opera house where the story is based???
- Pg 144 These books have all surprised me by how 🌶 they are for YA books
- Pg 147 you guys are totally going to get caught again and get suspended.
- Pg 149 “And you'll get into them all. But you'll accept Dartmouth. And we'll get a studio on the river- which will still be bigger than this- and a cat that looks like Jacque, but we'll call him Jack. And we'll get a crappy car, something that doesn't even have AC, but it'll have a great radio, and we'll drive someplace new every weekend."
- Pg 178 “He follows me in, and we brush our teeth, We can't stop smiling at each other. I can't believe that adults get to do this every da; And I don't even mean sex, though it's wonderful, but things like this. Brushing our teeth at the same sink. Do adults realize how lucky they are? Or do they forget that these small moments are actually small miracles? I don't want to ever forget.”
- Everything is going so perfectly. The book is only half way through. I’m not looking forward to when the third quarter drama begins… I like them being happy and I don’t want to see their relationship struggle 🥺
- Pg 274 the relationship imploded. I am sad 😢
- Pg 304 😭
- Pg 313 Omg St Clair just proposed to Anna. Now I’m crying happy tears 🥹