Title: P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before #2)Author: Jenny Han
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Genre/Age Group: Young Adult, Contemporary Romance
Source: Purchased
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Lara Jean didn’t expect to really fall for Peter. She and Peter were just pretending. Except suddenly they weren’t. Now Lara Jean is more confused than ever. When another boy from her past returns to her life, Lara Jean’s feelings for him return too. Can a girl be in love with two boys at once?
In this charming and heartfelt sequel to the New York Times bestseller To All the Boys I've Loved Before, we see first love through the eyes of the unforgettable Lara Jean. Love is never easy, but maybe that’s part of what makes it so amazing.
my thoughts
I already wrote a mini review for To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and I don’t think I have that much more to say about the sequel, but I did want to write down my thoughts, so consider this a mini mini review. P.S. I Still Love You starts off exactly where the first book left off, with Lara Jean’s letter to Peter. If I’m being honest, I feel like if the letter had been included in the first novel, despite the slightly open ending it would have had, this story would have been enough. For a large part while reading this book, I didn’t feel like a sequel was necessary. I liked the ending a lot, but also there was a lot of repetition and the dragging out of Lara Jean and Peter’s relationship was getting on my nerves. When I think about it now, I do like that Jenny Han showed how difficult relationships can be, and how getting together is the easy part.
I do really like being in Lara Jean’s head, and she is still as adorable as it was in To All the Boys, and I also feel like Genevieve’s story was an important addition to the first book. My favorite character by far, though, is Kitty. She is honest and hilarious and just all around fabulous and dear Jenny Han, can we please have a Kitty spin-off? I also genuinely liked John Ambrose McClaren, and I felt like he and Lara Jean would have been an amazing fit. The group thing with the tagging game read a bit young, and I felt like it was just added to give the plot a bit of a boost. So yeah, I did still enjoy this book. I love Lara Jean and Kitty, the family aspect, and I genuinely like Peter and the ending of the story felt like a very mature ending for them. And yet, the constant back and forth didn’t do much for me.
Team Kitty Song Covey forever.
memorable quotes
Margot opens her mouth to respond, but then Kitty comes up behind us and says, “Enough with the letters. Just go get him back.”
“Hey, I thought I was your best friend!”
“You’re not my best friend. You’re my sister, and that’s more.”
“I’m thinking of Mrs Duvall, of what she said before. She would probably lump Chris in with the party girls, the girls who sleep around, the girls who aren’t “better than that.” She would be wrong. We’re all the same.”
“I had no idea you were such a feminist,” I say.
“Feminist?” Stormy makes a disgusted sound in her throat. “I’m no feminist. Really, Lara Jean!”
“Stormy, don’t get worked up about it. All it means is that you believe men and women are equal, and should have equal rights.”
“I don’t think any man is my equal. Women are far superior, and don’t you forget it.”
“If this is love, no thanks. I don’t want any part of it. When I’m older, I’m jut going to do my own thing.”
“What does that mean?” I ask her.
Kitty shrugs. “If I like a boy, fine, I’ll date him, but I’m not going to sit at home and cry over him.”
“Kitty, don’t act like you never cry.”
“I cry over important things.”
“You cried the other night because Daddy wouldn’t let you stay up to watch TV!”
“Yes, well, that was important to me.”
“What song are you singing?” Kitty interrupts.
I take Kitty’s hands and spin her around the kitchen with me. “I am sixteen, going on seventeen; I know that I’m naive. Fellows I meet may tell me I’m sweet; willingly I believe.”
Daddy throws his dish towel over his shoulder and marches in place. In a deep voice he baritones, “You need someone older and wiser telling you want to do…”
“This song is sexist,” Kitty says as I dip her.