Once upon a time, there was a book. It was the fairest YA contemporary in all the lands. Other YA contemporaries only aspired to its quirkiness, its cuteness and its charm. Bloggers from all across the globe flocked to pay their respects to this beautiful queen of 2015 YA contemporaries. And in turn, this book was kind and welcomed everyone into its court with open arms...
... where it ripped their hearts out with a smile on its face.
Because this book, this book, is the champion of YA contemporary cliffhangers everywhere. We'd come to expect it from fantasy. We'd always dreaded it in paranormal. In dystopians, it's all but a given. But this book - so uplifting, so endearing - it had lulled us into a false sense of security.
Jenny Han's latest, To All The Boys I've Loved Before, was all of this and more. It is an auto-page-turner - the sort of read where you don't even notice the pages are being flipped and just whooshing by. Soon it's 5 AM and you think you might be in love with these characters. You've spent the past 20 minutes alternating between reading and trying to work out a way to get into the book's world (and make it your permanent home). The love interest is your soulmate and the protagonist is your alter ego. Her quirky family is assuredly related to your own. And you're cruising toward a heartwarming resolution.
Good luck with that. Not only were the final pages open-ended, the very last words made for one of the most discombobulating cliffhangers ever. (Normally, it's hard to use discombobulated in a sentence, which is a testament to the magnitude of this cliffhanger.) It's one of those "Hey, Amazon, either my Kindle is broken or my ebook is, because it just stopped at a pivotal moment and it won't turn the page anymore" situations.
But now, at long last, hope is on the horizon. The second book in Lara Jean's story, titled P.S. I Still Love You, is due to be released on May 26th of this year. Following the title, the release date, the many crackpot theories and the official synopsis, as of yesterday we have officially been graced with a cover - every bit as lovely as its predecessor. (In the words of a thousand book fans - thank god, they match!) Here at The Honest Bookclub, we have compiled all the information we have about the sequel thus far.
And now we wait.
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 makes it so amazing.
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 makes it so amazing.
Jenny Han (Han like Han
Solo, not Han like hand) was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. She
went to college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Go Heels!) and she went on to graduate
school at the New School in New York City, where she received her MFA
in Writing for Children. She lives in Brooklyn.
Apart from leaving her readers
flabbergasted, Jenny enjoys the movie Clueless,
board games, nicknaming just about everything, boys with dimples, cookbooks,
knee socks, Buffy, passion fruit, and assorted biscuits. If you get on her good
side, there's a perfect brownie in it for you, too.
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