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A review by feministfaereads87
Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins
4.0
I liked this book a lot for the most part, but I keep drawing back to Isla's talk with her sister Hattie about how she felt like she couldn't/didn't deserve love, that she felt she was a blank canvas.
I know that Isla is a blank canvas in the fact that she didn't have her future planned out, and that Josh came into her life and filled her canvas with a future and possibilities, but they constantly told each other that they loved the other, so did Isla just not let herself believe that Josh didn't mean it until after she saw his memoir?
Also I agree that on Josh's end it seemed insta-lovey at first, and on Isla's end it was mild obsession at first, HOWEVER, as they got to know each other and spend more time together it became love.
I think my favorite part of this book was the ending. Seeing Anna & Étienne and Lola & Cricket and Isla & Josh and Meredith all together just before Étienne proposed to Anna. It was so wonderful to see the two couples so happy, and I enjoyed Isla and Josh making up and her reading the memoir again with it changes. That's not to say I didn't enjoy the rest of the book. I did, and though the Christmas Eve's Eve car ride scene was difficult to read, it made sense.
I'd love a book following the couples set like 10 years in the future because I'd love to see Anna & Étienne's children and see what the future holds for Lola & Cricket and Isla & Josh.
I know that Isla is a blank canvas in the fact that she didn't have her future planned out, and that Josh came into her life and filled her canvas with a future and possibilities, but they constantly told each other that they loved the other, so did Isla just not let herself believe that Josh didn't mean it until after she saw his memoir?
Also I agree that on Josh's end it seemed insta-lovey at first, and on Isla's end it was mild obsession at first, HOWEVER, as they got to know each other and spend more time together it became love.
I think my favorite part of this book was the ending. Seeing Anna & Étienne and Lola & Cricket and Isla & Josh and Meredith all together just before Étienne proposed to Anna. It was so wonderful to see the two couples so happy, and I enjoyed Isla and Josh making up and her reading the memoir again with it changes. That's not to say I didn't enjoy the rest of the book. I did, and though the Christmas Eve's Eve car ride scene was difficult to read, it made sense.
I'd love a book following the couples set like 10 years in the future because I'd love to see Anna & Étienne's children and see what the future holds for Lola & Cricket and Isla & Josh.