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0.5

Reading this series was like opening a Reddit comment section: you know the only thing there is dumpster-fire. You know you're going to get mad. You do it anyway.

The fact that this starts with a time-skip, quickly runs through a full month of  tangencial events, then ends with another time-skip should be enough to tell you everything from the pacing to the plot is completelly wrong.

Belly remains insufferable, but Jenny Han hit the Stephanie Mayer narrative wall that is making both romantic triangle options too good. The main character has no reason to dump the one that is meant to be the bump in the road to the one she's actually supposed to end up with. So Jenny Han once again borrows from Jacob Black's ultimate fate and gives Jeremiah a total 180 to justify Belly (Bella) choosing Conrad (Edward). (without implying that said main character was just wrong to mislead a boy she didn't actually like, obviously)

The premise here is that after years of dating, Jeremiah cheats on Belly and the answer they both find to that IS GETTING MARRIED AT NINETEEN. Jeremiah acts his age and is completely immature about the whole ordeal, while Belly is blowing the whole thing out of porpotion because she can't deal with the fact that thing aren't perfect. Oh, and this whole time she's been dreaming about her boyfriend's brother :)

Somehow the only reasonable adult here is painted as too rigid and most of the story isn't even about Belly realizing her mistakes. It's about being stressed about wedding planning. And we don't even get to see why and how things get resolved so there's that.