REVIEW: To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1) by Jenny Han12/27/2018 If you are interested in viewing my original review on Goodreads for To All The Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1) by Jenny Han, click here.
Alright, enough of my stupid, pointless ranting, let's get onto the actual review, it's about damn time I did so:
The big thing about this book that sticks out to me is the fact that there is an Asian-American female main character as I rarely see novels with diverse MCs like Lara Jean. Nice job there, Jenny Han (that sounded extremely sarcastic, I promise it wasn't). The characters were... fine. I don't know, some of them were heart-wrenching characters I wasn't ever going to forget *cough* Lara Jean Covey *cough*, but other characters just flat out pissed me off, to keep it short, simple, and sweet *cough* Gen *cough*. Other characters *cough* John Ambrose McClaren *cough* deserve the entire world and more, I stan one (1) man. I will say, however, I wasn't fond of Peter in the book, but movie Peter can get it, to be honest. He can still be a d*ck at times in the movie, but I mean, Peter is solely a d*ck in the book, so it's progress, I guess. On the contrary, Josh was one of my favorite characters in the book, but one of my least favorite characters in the movie while Peter was the other way around -- one of my least favorite characters in the book, but one of my favorite characters in the movie. Straying away from the characters, I thoroughly enjoyed Han's writing style and I thought the inclusion of the recipes in the back of the book was the perfect touch. I am definitely interested in trying them out sometime, I'll have to get around to that someday I'm free & have the ingredients on hand. Maybe I should dedicate a day to baking over my break, I'm not sure yet. The pacing in this book felt so s l o w and dragged out at times, but it was still v e r y predictable nonetheless and I HATE books that are easy to predict because then there isn't any mystery or suspense aspect. I've read better YA contemporary romance, but I've also read worse. This one falls somewhere in the middle for me. I really hope the next one sticks with me more than this one did, but I have a feeling I'm gonna be disappointed, to be honest.
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