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3.5 stars

This book is exactly how I expected it to be. Light, meh main character, and predictable. The main thing I love about this is Stephanie Perkins is just a great writer. She writes contemporary romances so well and I really find it enjoyable to read. I knew going into this that the main thing I wouldn't get along with is Lola. I've heard things about Lola, and kinda had a preconceived notion of her, and my prediction that I wouldn't like her was correct. She just seemed.... ingenuine to me. Too quirky, to the point where I couldn't relate to her and it felt like everything she did was a childish cry for attention. On the other hand, I loved every other character in this book. Her gay parents and Cricket, especially. I didn't like how a lot of this book was Lola refusing to break up with her boyfriend, and the entire love triangle (????) was really underwhelming because you know she's gonna end up with Cricket. I mean, the book is titled lola and the boy next door. the entire book is based around them. So nothing in this book surprised me, and it followed a really typical pace of a stephanie perkins (or, any YA) romance. But it was pretty cute, even though a lot of it was predictable and cheesy and typical for YA cutesie books. It was a nice surprise to see Etienne and Anna so present in this one; I had thought maybe they'd just appear once or twice but they really made me happy seeing their storyline :D

I'm picking up Isla next and i'm already enjoying chapter one so here's to finishing this series finally!