A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017 Lara Jean’s letter-writing days aren’t over in this surprise follow-up to the New York Times bestselling To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and P.S. I Still Love You. 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. … getting remarried to their next door neighbor, Ms. Rothschild; and Margot’s 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 her sister 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?more
Lara Jean and Peter are enjoying their senior year. To make it even a better one, Lara Jean is helping prepare her Dad’s wedding to their neighbor and she’s making the best of it all.
With preparations for the senior trip, prom and the wedding, she barely has any time to think about college acceptance notifications and that’s how she wants it, but change is steadily approaching and, as much as she wants to pretend all is well, the concerns are right under the surface. When things don’t go as planned and different options start coming out, Lara Jean will find herself considering if she’s heading down the same path as her sister Margot did a few years back.
Growing pains have never been sweeter than in this last installment of Lara Jean and Peter’s story. Tough decisions, meddling parents and the best friend a girl can have always bring a good outcome in any book you read. Add to that a boy so in love, he’s not willing to give his girl up and you have one savory recipe.
Great writing, a heartfelt story, unexpected twists and an ending like no other makes Always and Forever, Lara Jean the perfect ending to the cutest coming of age story I’ve ever read.
Although I loved the first two books, I found that toward the last 50 pages of this trilogy ends in the same way. Laura Jean breaks up with Peter and then two pages before the book ends they are back together. This bothered me a tad but still the love between these two kids had me swooning.
Overall if you don’t mind repetitiveness then I guess you can enjoy this story fully.
Ah, Jenny Han. This book–this whole series actually–is as lovely as the cover looks. I’m sad to say goodbye to Lara Jean in this final book, but I’ve loved every moment I got spend with her in this sweet and charming slice of life contemporary YA series.
I CANNOT wait for the Netflix adaptation!
I have to admit to being a little sad to say goodbye to Lara Jean and her family and friends, but I did enjoy this final chapter in her story.
While being a mother, I could see Peter’s mom’s side in wondering what was best for her son, I was also extremely mad at the action she took. Sometimes, we just have to sit back and watch our kids make what might be mistakes in order to learn and to grow and mature. I try to put myself in her position though, and I’m truly not sure what I would do if one of my boys were in the same position.
Lara Jean goes through so much in the course of this book, from losing someone she cares about, to getting a rejection she wasn’t expecting, to unexpected surprises. Through all of this is her relationships with Peter, her family and an upcoming change in her family life. What a lot to be going through in your senior year. I could relate because I went through some of the same things in my senior year and it made me able to connect with her side even though I’m quite a bit older now.
I think the ending was good…I like the idea of future but not a proclamation of it, so the reader gets to imagine things going how they’d like. I do wish we could still get to see how college goes for Lara Jean, but maybe Ms. Han will have mercy on us and write a novella or spin off series someday!
This is a great series I can’t help but to recommend over and over again. This whole series is a joy to go through, and this final book had topics that everyone who goes through senior year of high school go through. This is a lovable series as a whole, highly recommend
I really liked the first two but this one knocked them out of the park <3
This was by far the best in the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before series. It was a pleasant surprise when Jenny Han announced there would even be a third book, but I think it was a perfect ending to the series. In the first two books, I thought Lara Jean was strangely immature and naive for something in the second half of high school, but this book shows her in a new light — grown up and making decisions about her future.
The book is set during Lara Jean’s senior year, as she navigates the future and what it means for her relationship, her family, and the people she cares most about.
Definitely a must read for fans of the series, Always and Forever, Lara Jean is the perfect send off.