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Isla and the Happily Ever After
by Stephanie Perkins
Perkins does it again. I LOVED "Anna and the French Kiss" and "Lola and the Boy Next Door". LOVED them. So I was so very excited to see her coming out with another book! And to know that my beloved St. Clair, Anna, Cricket, and Lola would be making an appearance. I can't even BEGIN with St. Clair and Anna's engagement! LOVE it!
So. Isla. It doesn't seem like much is going on at first. I mean, I was invested, but I sort of wondered where it was going to go since Anna and Lola's story was fraught with trouble from the start. The obstacles there were clear, the obstacles here not so much. I was strapped in though, and ready for the bumpiness.
It came and it made me weepy. Perkins is amazing at taking me to the brink of ecstasy or completely at ecstasy and then yanking the rug out from under me. But she always makes it all better.
I liked the journey that both Josh and Isla went through. I felt the tension and heartache was not as bad as in Anna and Lola, but I still had that hangover of "I don't want to leave this world" after it was done.
So. Isla. It doesn't seem like much is going on at first. I mean, I was invested, but I sort of wondered where it was going to go since Anna and Lola's story was fraught with trouble from the start. The obstacles there were clear, the obstacles here not so much. I was strapped in though, and ready for the bumpiness.
It came and it made me weepy. Perkins is amazing at taking me to the brink of ecstasy or completely at ecstasy and then yanking the rug out from under me. But she always makes it all better.
I liked the journey that both Josh and Isla went through. I felt the tension and heartache was not as bad as in Anna and Lola, but I still had that hangover of "I don't want to leave this world" after it was done.