To All The Boy’s I’ve Loved Before – Jenny Han

For this book I took a slightly different approach to reviewing it. Rather than reading the whole thing and then writing the review in it’s entirety at the end, I wrote down my thoughts as I was reading and did it a bit like you might live tweet something. It was really fun to do so let me know if you liked it and I might do some more like this – although I’ll try and include page numbers next time (my kindle doesn’t have any which makes it hard):

• I like the way Margot is shown. Her calmness and surety. Her strength. It makes me wish I had more of it when I was younger and I don’t think I was an unconfident teenager. Contrary to what many may think I think her breaking up with josh was incredibly brave and incredibly strong and I wish I’d had the strength to do the same before I went to uni. It’s not easy to understand how hard it reay is until you go through it.

• Omg Josh is actually normal. No sparkly eyes. Not chestnut auburn hair the colour of autumn. Just a dude. Finally.

• Lara Jean’s scrap booking set up is like my dream. There is no such thing as too much washi tape. Now I want to go shopping.

• I actually kinda want her to write this spy novel…

• Seriously. Does this whole family fancy Josh? Poor guy, what a minefield.

• If he ends up dating Lara Jean I will be very unhappy.

• I like the fact that Lara Jean isn’t just moaning about the fact she can’t have him but is actually going ‘no I am an awful person I will stop this’ in a legitimate way

• Oh god. This is painful. I actually feel so bad for her even though I knew it was coming. I bet it was Kitty.

• Lara Jean kissing Peter Kavinsky is actually painful to read. This whole thing is painful to read. It’s great.

• I like how short the chapters are. I can read a chapter as a break from work and I don’t end up taking hours.

• I’m actually starting to like Peter. He’s kinda sweet even if he is hung up on Genevieve. I feel like if they both actually gave each other a chance it would be really cute.

• Ok so maybe he’s a cocky basrard but he’s still kinda endearing.

• This is how I feel about driving. I feel you Lara Jean.

• Josh is kind of a douche. Like choose a sister. You only get one sister. You don’t get to be douchey when other sister likes someone else. Seriously. I thought you were the good guy. I am on Peter’s side 100%. Fucking love triangle snuck up on me. Bloody hell.

• Fucks sake Josh. Shut up.

• Yes Lara Jean! Yes yes yes! You have that epiphany. You tell him!

• Definitely rooting for Peter.

• Eurgh Margot’s such a snob.

• Fairly sure they don’t have room mates at St. Andrews. I mean I don’t actually know but it’s not all that common in British universities. It’s usually more flats with individual bedrooms. I only know one person who shared a room in freshers.

• Genuinely thought Genevieve was going to be in that hottub being non-pg. Now I have to go and read that whole page again because potential cringe factor made me only skim it.

• What. A. Bitch. Shove off Geneveive. I bet it was you who made up that rumour. Because you’re a class-A ho-bag.

• This is actually making me really sad.

• I feel like this is all just getting a bit out of hand now and everyone really needs to learn to communicate better…

• Totally called it. Kitty was the obvious culprit.

• This ending is not enough for me. Where’s the sappy make up kiss. Where’s the cliche romantic over the top malarkey we usually get at the end of a love triangle. I need more dammit.

I’m not sure if that worked or not but I really enjoyed doing it and it gave you an insight into the weird way my brain works when I’m reading a book I really like. And I did really like it BTW. Jenny Han’s writing is fab and I will be reading the next one ASAP.

~ Becca x