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To All the Boys I've Loved Before
by Jenny Han
This felt like reading the diary of a twelve-year-old girl. Which is odd since our protagonist is supposed to be a seventeen-year-old. Lara Jean is naive, spoiled, and childish and the entire book felt like it was written for middle schoolers and not for young adults.
Everyone in this book is a goody-goody to a cringe level and the worst that can be said about the 'bad boy' love interest is one time in seventh grade he cheated on a Spanish test. Oh, and thinking he's a player. In spite of the fact that he had been dating the same girl for four years. But yeah he's no good for her but the guy who kisses his ex-girlfriend's sister yeah he's the good one? Gross.
This entire thing feels like something that was written by someone uber Christian and their idea of what teens are like. Which is odd since there isn't anything overtly religious in the book. They pray once before dinner on Sunday and that's about it.
The only reason this got a second star is because as an asexual I did fully get the idea of enjoying the idea of romance but once you're presented with it personally suddenly it's like oh yikes no thanks. Though my reasoning is because I'm ace and Lara Jean's reason is because she's a seventeen going on seven.
There is also no actual end to this book. We spend over three hundred pages meandering about. Listening to the day-to-day life of Lara Jean only to suddenly just cut off when we get to what seems like it should be the middle of a better written book.
Everyone in this book is a goody-goody to a cringe level and the worst that can be said about the 'bad boy' love interest is one time in seventh grade he cheated on a Spanish test. Oh, and thinking he's a player. In spite of the fact that he had been dating the same girl for four years. But yeah he's no good for her but the guy who kisses his ex-girlfriend's sister yeah he's the good one? Gross.
This entire thing feels like something that was written by someone uber Christian and their idea of what teens are like. Which is odd since there isn't anything overtly religious in the book. They pray once before dinner on Sunday and that's about it.
The only reason this got a second star is because as an asexual I did fully get the idea of enjoying the idea of romance but once you're presented with it personally suddenly it's like oh yikes no thanks. Though my reasoning is because I'm ace and Lara Jean's reason is because she's a seventeen going on seven.
There is also no actual end to this book. We spend over three hundred pages meandering about. Listening to the day-to-day life of Lara Jean only to suddenly just cut off when we get to what seems like it should be the middle of a better written book.