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A review by jjandherbooks
P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
3.0
Real rating: 3.5 stars!
Phew, I read this after a busy week and it wasn't a terrible book choice! It was a very light-hearted and simple read, and I felt synonymous with a filler chapter. First off, the plot was just so... random? I felt like nothing was happening, and while I think that the main conflict of this book was working out struggles in a relationship, it was, like I said, very simple. If that's what the author was going for, then obviously that's fine - I've heard of/read books that were literally written because they just wanted to write more about their characters.
Now let's talk LJ and Peter. I don't know what the correct definition of a toxic relationship is, but this kinda seemed like what was going on. They would get into a fight and be like "let's hug and never fight again!" and then just move on like there weren't these uNderLyinG teNsioNs that were bothering the both of them. That might have been for the storyline though. Also, we kept getting these "Peter goes to see Genevieve moments of which Lara Jean is skeptical of" that all built up to the big Genevieve's problem moment, which honestly was not that big of a climactic moment.
We also randomly brought John Ambrose McLaren in, which I think was kind of cute, nOt gOnnA liE. Idk, he just seemed better than Peter here, lol. It just didn't make sense that the author created all this chemistry (?) between but then make this a thing that ends up confirming to Lara Jean that she loves Peter more. I guess she might've made it harder for the reader to "guess" who she would end up with, but I just didn't understand why she made this whole thing between the two of them just for Lara Jean and Peter to immediately get back together after a two page make up/apology scene. I mean, one way you could look at it is that it taught Lara Jean (and Peter I guess?) that she needs to stop living in the past and to take some risks - which I guess could make sense as the overarching theme.
But overall, this book was just pretty easy and light-hearted to get through. It was just a romance, nothing too complicated, and I guess leads into the third book well? Which I plan on reading, so hopefully that'll be a good finish to the series.
Phew, I read this after a busy week and it wasn't a terrible book choice! It was a very light-hearted and simple read, and I felt synonymous with a filler chapter. First off, the plot was just so... random? I felt like nothing was happening, and while I think that the main conflict of this book was working out struggles in a relationship, it was, like I said, very simple. If that's what the author was going for, then obviously that's fine - I've heard of/read books that were literally written because they just wanted to write more about their characters.
Now let's talk LJ and Peter. I don't know what the correct definition of a toxic relationship is, but this kinda seemed like what was going on. They would get into a fight and be like "let's hug and never fight again!" and then just move on like there weren't these uNderLyinG teNsioNs that were bothering the both of them. That might have been for the storyline though. Also, we kept getting these "Peter goes to see Genevieve moments of which Lara Jean is skeptical of" that all built up to the big Genevieve's problem moment, which honestly was not that big of a climactic moment.
We also randomly brought John Ambrose McLaren in, which I think was kind of cute, nOt gOnnA liE. Idk, he just seemed better than Peter here, lol. It just didn't make sense that the author created all this chemistry (?) between but then make this a thing that ends up confirming to Lara Jean that she loves Peter more. I guess she might've made it harder for the reader to "guess" who she would end up with, but I just didn't understand why she made this whole thing between the two of them just for Lara Jean and Peter to immediately get back together after a two page make up/apology scene. I mean, one way you could look at it is that it taught Lara Jean (and Peter I guess?) that she needs to stop living in the past and to take some risks - which I guess could make sense as the overarching theme.
But overall, this book was just pretty easy and light-hearted to get through. It was just a romance, nothing too complicated, and I guess leads into the third book well? Which I plan on reading, so hopefully that'll be a good finish to the series.