Always and Forever, Lara Jean

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Call Number: Teen Book / Fiction / General / Han, Jenny, Teen Fiction / Han, Jenny
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

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Lara Jean is having the best senior year a girl could ever hope for. She is head over heels in love with her boyfriend, Peter; her dad's finally getting remarried to their next door neighbor, Ms. Rothschild; and sister Margot is coming home for the summer just in time for the wedding. But change is looming on the horizon. And while Lara Jean is having fun and keeping busy helping plan her father's wedding, she can't ignore the big life decisions she has to make. Most pressingly, where she wants to go to college and what that means for her relationship with Peter. She watched Margot go through these growing pains. Now Lara Jean's the one who'll be graduating high school and leaving for college and leaving her family -- and possibly the boy she loves -- behind. When your heart and your head are saying two different things, which one should you listen to?

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Cute love story, but questionable details and annoying characters submitted by zixyxuan on June 25, 2017, 9:33pm This book was a quick and short read. I finished it within a couple of hours in one sitting. Even though I liked the message that the author was conveying about growing up and taking the next step in your life after high school, there were some major plot holes that I had an issue with, the main one being how old Lara Jean's sister is. I mean, I thought she was like 14 or something in the first book, and now she's turning 11 and giving Lara Jean suggestions on how to cure a hangover? WTF. Seriously, this just isn't realistic at all. Aside from that, Kitty was probably actually my favorite character in this book.

You know who I absolutely hated? Margot. I think Jenny Han meant to make her a strong and independent sister that Lara Jean could look up to, but this girl honestly has no respect for her parents or anyone else for that matter. She's turning 20 in this book and acting like she owns the world. If she has a problem, she doesn't talk to her dad about it, but instead passively takes it out on poor Trina, who I really liked. I understand her frustrations with her family seemingly taking a step away from her, but that's life. Grow up. It was honestly so annoying throughout this book.

Lara Jean and Peter. Ugh. This relationship was killing me this entire series. This is what is fundamentally wrong with many of the teenage relationships out there today. I hate the lack of communication between them. Yes, transitioning from high school to college is a difficult time, but that's why it makes it more important to talk to each other about it. I want to read more young adult contemporary novels where people in healthy relationships go through life problems together. This just really fell flat for me in this department.

Overall rating: 2.75 stars (rounding it up to 3 stars)

Okay submitted by zmclaugh on August 1, 2018, 9:52am I was hoping for a more realistic ending, but I suppose this book was on par with the rest of the series, so what happened is to be expected.

Alright submitted by c_zhang on June 28, 2019, 2:23pm This book was kind of slow at times. Lara Jean became kind of a frustrating character. Margot was straight up annoying. This book was unrealistic and I didn't like it that much.

an awesome book submitted by RowPio on July 12, 2019, 7:09pm great ending to the series and loved it so much!

cute submitted by Fleabag on August 22, 2023, 4:20pm hate the fact that realistically, theres no way that lara jean and peter are going to last through all of college lol. but this was a sweet book, liked it better than the second one (it's been a while since i read the first, so idk...)
but it wasn't bad, a nice ending but not very realistic.