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Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins
3.0

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.