Synopsis:

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is the story of Lara Jean, who has never openly admitted her crushes, but instead wrote each boy a letter about how she felt, sealed it, and hid it in a box under her bed. But one day Lara Jean discovers that somehow her secret box of letters has been mailed, causing all her crushes from her past to confront her about the letters: her first kiss, the boy from summer camp, even her sister’s ex-boyfriend, Josh. As she learns to deal with her past loves face to face, Lara Jean discovers that something good may come out of these letters after all.

Review:

So I feel like you need to read the book before you see the movie with this one. It is one of those cases where the movie was one hundred times better. I made the mistake of watching the movie first and then reading the book.

I am always interested in characters that are of Asian descent, I feel like there aren’t enough Asian main characters and they are usually the main characters best friend. Just saying!

Okay if you have been hiding under a rock and have no idea when this is about then let’s go over the basics. Lara Jean (can we just call her LJ?) writes 5 letters of love to boys of her past that she has a crush on. They accidently get sent. One of her letter crush boys Peter and her strike a deal to be in a fake relationship to benefit their current situations with crushes and girlfriends.

I love that LJ (yeah it’s happening) sticks to her morals and sets proximity boundaries, which as a female I think is highly important. I don’t like how innocent she is as well, never standing up for herself and also lives vicariously through other people.

Peter is arrogant as hell in the book and I wasn’t a fan, in the movie he was depicted as being a little more thoughtful.

Margot attitude is annoying.

Kitty is the fricken bomb.

Josh was annoying.

Their dad was cool beans!

Though you can definitely see the growth in the characters in the book and the relationship and friendships build and grow, which is great because there is nothing more annoying than characters don’t grow with the story.

I honestly am not a fan of fluffy contemporaries, but the humour of this book kept me going, but I’m definitely a fan of the movie than the book.

Rating: 4/5

Publisher: Scholastic

ISBN: 9781760665951