To All the Boys I've Loved Before #1.

To All the Boys I've Loved Before
von Jenny Han

Bewertet mit 3.5 Sternen

“When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit.”

With the netflix movie coming just released, I decided to finally pick this book up. It's a YA contemporary with a romance.

Lara Jean has been in love with Josh for a long time. They've grown up alongside each other for the past five years; her dad and sisters all adore Josh. There's just one problem with her little crush: Josh is dating her older sister, Margot.

Lara Jean is a romantic. She has had a few crushes in her life, and she has written love letters to all of them. There has been five.
And now there's a problem: someone has sent all her crushes the love letters that she wrote them. She wrote a letter to Josh and Peter.

To a teenaged girl, to any girl or woman, really, this is truly a mortifying experience, having your crushes find out is just an unimaginable humiliation. When Josh finds out, Lara Jean has no choice but to save face. She pretends to be dating one of her letter recipients, Peter. It turns out that Peter is in need of a little distraction himself. Peter has recently been dumped by his girlfriend, Genevieve. He wants to make his ex-girlfriend jealous, Lara Jean needs to pretend that Josh means nothing to her. They enter into a dating contract. But then Lara Jean finds himself liking Peter...but is Peter truly over his ex-gf? And what happens when Josh realizes that he might have feelings for her after all?

But really there really is no romance in this book. There is barely anything but Lara Jean mooning and daydreaming that she and Josh were Meant To Be, if only he could see it. Her fake relationship with Peter....petered out. Lara Jean may find herself liking Peter more and more every day, but there's the fact that Peter is not over his ex-girlfriend.

I was truly disappointed by this book. I wanted a sweet romance. I wanted to be swept away. I didn't get anything, and the ending left me reeling with disappointment because nothing ever got resolved. This book was purposeless. There was no ending. There was no romance. There was no character growth.

I wanted sweetness, I wanted a character that matures, and I want some really cute romance. But all I got was an incredibly disappointing ending because the entire book lead up to one moment that never came, the book just ended.