To be perfectly honest, I don't think this book needed to exist. There wasn't even manufactured drama anymore. It just dragged on. This took me the longest to read of the trilogy because I was so bored. The character development got a little better, but Peter and Lara Jean had already broken up and gotten back together more than once, so I didn't care. I don't know when the last time I read a book with such an insufferable main character was. I started this series expecting fun romantic fluff, and I was so disappointed. A lot of people seem to love it, but it just wasn't for me and I'm probably going to nix all the other Jenny Han books I had wanted to read.

My thoughts coming away from this book was that it didn't need to exist. The premise would have made a good standalone, and this felt like an awkwardly thrown together love triangle to sell more books. Other than forced drama, there wasn't a whole lot going on. And I didn't care about any of the characters. The only one I liked from the first book was Peter, and he started acting way more like a jerk in this one. I definitely wasn't on his side. So I guess I was rooting for the random guy who showed up out of nowhere?

I continue to think this series would have worked better with twelve year olds than 16/17 year olds. A lot of them seem to be acting young for their age. I didn't care, and I'm kind of disappointed to be reading the third book in the trilogy because if Lara Jean hasn't grown up at all by now, I feel like she's not going to.

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.

I thought this was a great book, but I rate off my own personal enjoyment so I had to give this three stars. Magical realism isn't my thing. I couldn't get past that to really love and appreciate this book because so much of it just felt weird. I've never been able to get into magical realism very well. But this is very obviously a personal preference rather than a critique on the book itself.

The story was really compelling. The writing was beautiful. The characters well crafted. I was invested in them by the end, but I couldn't get over the ghosts and "thin places" and such. I will say that she captured the mysticism of magical realism and mixed it with the very grounded grief of the two main characters so well. It was a truly lovely book, just one that wasn't for me. But I would highly recommend this to people who enjoy magical realism because I do think this was a wonderful book.

This was so much more emotional than I expected. I started bawling my eyes out at one point and had to put the book down for about twenty minutes to compose myself. I completed related to her as a character, and her anxiety and dependence on internet fandom communities. If that's something you can relate to, I feel like you would appreciate this book so much.

I loved the relationship with her parents and the way they weren't villains, they just didn't get it. Different generation, different interests, some miscommunication, and they had no idea what they were doing. But they still had a good relationship. I love this kind of parent relationship in YA. And her brothers were the sweetest, when they weren't being idiot middle school boys.

The only thing that kept this from being five stars for me was Wallace. I didn't like him, I didn't like their relationship, and I didn't like what happened with them toward the end. I was not rooting for them in the slightest and thought their relationship wasn't very healthy. But this was still a solid four star read and I would highly recommend to people who are involved in online fandom communities.

This story fell flat for me. I was expecting it to focus on the complexities of an abusive relationship, but instead it was full of instalove and one dimensional characters. It took less than a week for the main characters to fall madly in love which was about the time it took the abuse to begin. Gregg was obviously slated as the "good guy" choice for Zephyr, but he was manipulative and toxic as well, telling her that if she didn't want to be in a relationship with him then he didn't want to be friends.

The pacing at the beginning was really fast and simultaneously boring. It followed her boring normal daily activities in great detail and dropped in half page scenes for her father's return to her family and her best friend kissing her.

I was disappointed. If the description interests you, I'd recommend finding other YA books about abusive relationships. There are plenty out there, and most of them are much better than this.

This honestly felt like a first draft. It had a good premise and I did enjoy the beginning, but it never seemed to go anywhere. The pacing was off. It went from a really slow first 3/4 where nothing much happened and then the last quarter it all got wrapped up quick as anything. There wasn't much character development or even chemistry between Ambrose and Louna. Toward the end I started legitimately questioning if this was actually a romance novel. And there was so much instalove. So much. Everywhere.

There were also little inconsistencies throughout that bugged me to no end. In one chapter she would say she skipped school after first period the day Ethan was killed, but in another she took her Spanish quiz first period and then went to art history before leaving. Inconsequential things, but they really bothered me.

I really wanted to like this because I love Sarah Dessen, but to me this seemed like a significant drop in quality. The premise and characters were good and I did thoroughly enjoy the beginning, but it felt like a first draft that needed to go through a few more revisions before publishing.

This was meh. If you really love the series and want to read more about the characters, you'll probably enjoy it. But the stories themselves weren't all that great. They were mostly snippets of backstory that weren't in the main series because they were unnecessary. So this entire book felt kind of unnecessary. But if you're really excited for more, I can see someone enjoying this.

This book was fine, but honestly I didn't care that much. I'd much rather have skipped this entirely and gone straight to Winter for the climax of the series (although this probably has some important, or at least relevant, information for Winter). It felt like a delay of what I really cared about. I thought it would be more focused on humanizing Levana, but she was just as sociopathic at 15 as she was in the main series. And to be honest, not all that interesting. I'm really glad it was short.

I wanted to really enjoy the end of this series, but in all honesty I came away feeling mostly meh and relief that it's over. This book felt very long. The story dragged on and on. I don't mind a long book, but it's got to be long with a purpose. This just seemed excessive. A lot of the elements were repetitive. The characters would get split up, for whatever reason (kidnapping, imprisonment, injury, etc) and be absolutely distraught over it, and then be reunited, only to be split up again just a scene or two later. Rinse and repeat. It stopped eliciting an emotional response after the first couple of times.

It wasn't a terrible book and I'm glad I finished the series, but overall I thought it was pretty mediocre.