To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1) in Around the World in 80 Books

Feb 06, 2019 Linda Martin rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: families, ya, fiction, romance, 2019

There's some YA I like, but generally not this kind of "romance at high school" kind of thing. It all seemed very juvenile, and would probably appeal to tweens who would like to imagine what high school romances might be like.

There were some good philosophical moments throughout the book, yet Lara Jean didn't seem 100% believable to me. In some ways, she seemed too mature for 16, like when she said:

“I need peace,” I say, closing my eyes. “I need to replenish myself with peace.”

Do 16-year-olds t ...more

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Sep 08, 2015 Nancy H rated it liked it

I liked this story of teen love and loss. It tells of the loss of a sister who goes far away to college, an earlier loss of a mother, and the loss of the friendship of a boy the main character had always considered her best friend. When some of her private, never-to-be-mailed love letter to previous boys get mailed to them without her knowledge, it is also a story of loss of privacy and the gaining of a fake boyfriend and some true teenage angst.

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Apr 18, 2020 Mike rated it did not like it

Oh that was torture! All the way to the climax...where the pain and the constant looking at the watch for how much of this torture is left....was the main focus.

In my defense, I ended up in this very very wrong place because I couldn't sleep and added an audiobook at random since I'd remembered the movie trailer didn't look too bad.

However, this book about high-school drama with vacuous, dull and unlikeable characters was truly a pain to complete. I continued to endure the pain just to remind ...more

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