欧宝娱乐

I really can't pinpoint EXACTLY what made this book so ridiculous for me, and I can't find a way to explain it without offending 16 year olds everywhere.
But basically this book really did capture being 16 quite well, which in turn irritated the hell out of me.
I would never be 16 again. While I cherish my own teen years, I wouldn't re-live them because I and all of my friends were ridiculous. We were over dramatic and catty and immature and mean and passive aggressive and naive. And while it's totally normal for 16 year olds to behave that way, I don't particularly enjoy reading about it anymore.

This book was also a bit confused on its morals because while it touted some feminist concepts, it did so by putting tons and tons of slut shaming into the book and then making little comments about how "but that's not good!". But seriously, everyone slut-shamed. Margo did about Ms. Rothchild, that teacher at school did about Lara Jean and "not going down that path" like "other girls", Kris and Stormy did all the time, Lara Jean did about Genevieve.

And the obsession with Genevieve was just sad to watch. I know it was in character for that age, but I just couldn't handle reading about Lara Jean constantly obsessing about Peter's ex when he really wasn't doing much wrong, for a 16 y/o boy.

This book just irked me. There were all sorts of loose ends left open, the entire plot line with John seemed forced and unbelievable, and between Anonybitch, setting their dad up on dates, the assassin's game, getting stuck at the retirement home overnight, the time capsule, the old tree house getting cut down, etc etc -- it felt more like a young fanfic author pulling out all the stops to get her characters in weird situations, not a seasoned writer molding reality. I did not like it.

*I listened to this on audiobook so apologies if I spelled everyone's names wrong.