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readerandhercoffee 's review for:
Isla and the Happily Ever After
by Stephanie Perkins
To say that Isla Martin likes Josh Wasserstein is a major understatement. Isla has been crushing on the gorgeous, quiet, and brooding artist for years, since freshman year at the School of America in Paris. Isla never stopped liking Josh, even when she had a boyfriend, and even when he was going out with Rashmi. Now they’re both incoming seniors, and Josh and Rashmi are no longer together, but still Isla can’t work up the courage to talk to him. She can very well graduate high school and leave Paris without Josh ever knowing how she truly feels about him!
But one night in New York City, during a particularly woozy and heady aftermath of a wisdom tooth extraction, Isla finally strikes up a conversation with Josh, whom she finds sitting by himself at a table inside her favorite café, Kismet. Propelled by painkillers and her pent-up longing for this awesome guy, Isla finally strikes up a nice albeit loopy conversation with him. She even agrees to have Josh draw her in his sketchbook. The next day, she wakes up in her bed with no recollection how the night ended, and how she even managed to get home.
Isla solicits the help of her long-time, platonic best friend Kurt to go back to the same café that night, hoping to see and talk to Josh again. But it seems like it’s a one-off thing, and the next time she’ll get to see him next is when she flies back to Paris for the start of the school year.
When Isla and Josh see each other again, it’s awkward and tentative, but they both know the attraction is there. When Josh asks her out on a date, Isla cannot believe that someone she likes so much actually likes her back. And then when Josh tells her he loves her, she is over the moon with happiness, but she's also waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Isla finds herself overwhelmed with college applications, and she realizes that she has no concrete plans for the future. For someone who is at the top of her class, she has no idea what she wants to do with her life. Throw in feelings of insecurity over her brand new relationship with Josh, their suddenly long distance relationship, the significant past he shared with his ex-girlfriend Rashmi, and his very close ties with his friends who are practically strangers to her, Isla retreats to her shell and puts up her walls. She makes the painful but hopefully right decision for the both of them. She breaks up with Josh before he realizes what a mistake falling in love with her was.
So here’s another ridiculously cute and charming novel from Stephanie Perkins, with another swoony boy and another cute, funny girl. I thoroughly enjoyed it! I love Isla and how she’s so shy and hilarious and head over heels in love with just this one boy. I giggled and smiled as she shared her thoughts about her crippling, mind-numbing crush on him, and I shared in her happiness when she finally got the confirmation that he likes her back. It’s a little more mature compared to the previous two books, but I totally get it. It’s a love so young and so fierce that you’re just caught up in a whirlwind of passion and you’re too powerless to keep your clothes on. (Haha!) I do hope there is a fourth book. This group of friends are so lovable I want them to be in my life for a long, long time. Oh, this book will definitely make your heart very happy.
But one night in New York City, during a particularly woozy and heady aftermath of a wisdom tooth extraction, Isla finally strikes up a conversation with Josh, whom she finds sitting by himself at a table inside her favorite café, Kismet. Propelled by painkillers and her pent-up longing for this awesome guy, Isla finally strikes up a nice albeit loopy conversation with him. She even agrees to have Josh draw her in his sketchbook. The next day, she wakes up in her bed with no recollection how the night ended, and how she even managed to get home.
Isla solicits the help of her long-time, platonic best friend Kurt to go back to the same café that night, hoping to see and talk to Josh again. But it seems like it’s a one-off thing, and the next time she’ll get to see him next is when she flies back to Paris for the start of the school year.
When Isla and Josh see each other again, it’s awkward and tentative, but they both know the attraction is there. When Josh asks her out on a date, Isla cannot believe that someone she likes so much actually likes her back. And then when Josh tells her he loves her, she is over the moon with happiness, but she's also waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Isla finds herself overwhelmed with college applications, and she realizes that she has no concrete plans for the future. For someone who is at the top of her class, she has no idea what she wants to do with her life. Throw in feelings of insecurity over her brand new relationship with Josh, their suddenly long distance relationship, the significant past he shared with his ex-girlfriend Rashmi, and his very close ties with his friends who are practically strangers to her, Isla retreats to her shell and puts up her walls. She makes the painful but hopefully right decision for the both of them. She breaks up with Josh before he realizes what a mistake falling in love with her was.
So here’s another ridiculously cute and charming novel from Stephanie Perkins, with another swoony boy and another cute, funny girl. I thoroughly enjoyed it! I love Isla and how she’s so shy and hilarious and head over heels in love with just this one boy. I giggled and smiled as she shared her thoughts about her crippling, mind-numbing crush on him, and I shared in her happiness when she finally got the confirmation that he likes her back. It’s a little more mature compared to the previous two books, but I totally get it. It’s a love so young and so fierce that you’re just caught up in a whirlwind of passion and you’re too powerless to keep your clothes on. (Haha!) I do hope there is a fourth book. This group of friends are so lovable I want them to be in my life for a long, long time. Oh, this book will definitely make your heart very happy.