I Write What I Read

Plot:

Lara Jean didn’t expect to really fall for Peter.
They were just pretending. Until they weren’t. And now Lara Jean has to learn what it’s like to be in a real relationship and not just a make believe one.
But when another boy from her past returns to her life, Lara Jean’s feelings for him suddenly return, too.
Can a girl be in love with two boys at once?
In this charming and heartfelt sequel to the New York Times bestseller TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE, Lara Jean is about to find out that falling in love is the easy part.

Thoughts
While I have mentioned before that I’m not loving the book on the first half, well thank heavens it got good on the second part.

As I said, I didn’t like that there was not much Peter to read about, especially that their relationship is for real. The answer would be because he was always with Genevieve. That cow! I guess it was legit because Gen did need him, but obviously she won’t back down because she’s doing it out of spite. Though it saddens me that Lara Jean and Gen didn’t rekindle their friendship, I guess it was for the best, because they can’t change the fact that Gen was there before her and so much happened between Peter and Gen, that it will always cast some kind of shadow between Peter and Lara Jean’s relationship.

John Ambrose McClaren. I love that name, and I like him! Peter’s absence totally highlights John’s character, how he’s always there for Lara Jean, and finding out that he liked her all those years and even until the present. But he was made some sort of fodder, an obstacle, well I think he deserved better! I want to see him in that WWII uniform. I must admit, the USO party was my favorite part. I wish their game, Assassin, was given this extravagant storyline and made it more fun!

It’s not the greatest love story of all time and it’s not the sweetest, and definitely it’s not the most heart breaking, but the thing is, it’s the realest, know what I’m saying? Young love seems like a million years ago for me, but this story, Lara Jean and Peter’s love story, gave me hope. Hope that not all teens are about sex, drugs and rock and roll (hahahaha), but also about experiencing and feeling real love in its truest sense, the same way adults do.

Rating
4 stars

Quotes
I can see now that it’s the little things, the small efforts that keep a relationship going.

We broke so easily. Like it was nothing. Like we were nothing.

PETER AND ME, OUR BREAKUP, it’s all so very high school. By that I mean it’s ephemeral. Even this pain will be fleeting, finite. Even the sharp sting of this betrayal I should hold on to and remember and cherish, because it is my first true breakup. It’s all just part of it, the process of falling in love. And it’s not like I thought we’d stay together forever; we’re only sixteen and seventeen. One day I will look back on all of this fondly.

Maybe really, really good things aren’t meant to last for too long; maybe that’s what makes them all the more sweet, the temporariness of them.

You have to let yourself be fully present in every moment. Just be awake for it.

When you lose someone and it still hurts, that’s when you know the love was real.

So much of love is chance. There’s something scary and wonderful about that.

I want it all, and to have it all, you have to risk it all.

My friends and I had coffee last night to catch up. We rarely see each other, but when we do it's like nothing's change at all, like we just saw each other yesterday. We don't talk so much as well and that's what amazes me with the kind of friendship we all have.




The saying is true: It doesn't matter how many friends you have, they might be few as long as they are true, and that's what really counts.



My point is that... the coffee kept me awake till almost 4am! I read and read and waited for my eyes to get tired, but it did not happen! I attempted to sleep twice, putting down my tablet and shut my eyes, but my head was still buzzing like hell and my eyes were not as cooperative as well... alright my whole body! I was so awake!


It's was a first time. Coffee never affected me in that way before. It was a new coffee we tried. I forgot the name, but it had caramel on it.


And so I read through half the book in mere hours... and sad to say I'm not liking the story at all. It wasn't very engaging. I wouldn't mind not sleeping if I was reading, but the first half of the story just made me want to just sleep, beg for it, even!


I felt the story was dallying in irrelevant things, and there's not so much Peter! They're officially together now, but why isn't there so much Peter and Lara Jean moments?? It's frustrating!





Crossing my fingers that the other half of the story turns things around, because I really want to love this story, and to not feel like I've waited and got my self excited only to be disappointed.

Last year, all of Belly's dreams came true and the thought of missing a summer in Cousins Beach was inconceivable. But like the rise and fall of the ocean tide, things can change--  just like that. Suddenly the time she's always looked forward to most is something she dreads. And when Jeremiah calls to say Conrad has disappeared, Belly must decide how she will spend this summer: chasing after the boy she loves, or finally letting him go.