3.0

Barely three stars for me. It was a two star read until I actually got invested in Peter's character, and I think that says more about how much I hated everyone else than any particular fondness for him. Lara Jean was one of the most annoying main characters I've read in a long time. I thought she was a middle school student until she mentioned her age explicitly. Her voice was closer to a middle school student than a sixteen year old. Change a few references to driving and sex, and this could be a solid middle grade book.

I would have DNFed this book fifty pages in if I could bring myself to do it, but it did improve later on. At least enough for me to stop disliking it so much. I haven't a clue where it's going from here, though. A trilogy based on this doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.