It’s rare to find a book which is as interesting throughout as its title.
It’s rare to find a book which is about characters who are so like you and still manage to surprise you with the way they feel, think and act.
It’s very rare to find a book which actually compels you to bake chocolate chip cookies just with the verbal description of all the baking happening.
This series is all that and more.
I started the first book not knowing it was a trilogy. And I have a feeling that the author started writing it not knowing it will turn out into a series. The synopsis of the book is enough to get you hooked. I mean, how would you deal with it if your innocent little crush from your teens found out in full detail how you felt for them and what dreamy desires you had for a future with them? Don’t stop there. How would you deal with it if this happened not with one but all your crushes that you’ve ever had??? I know. Disaster! For one, a crush is a crush for a reason. After 5 or 6 years, the feelings are successfully crushed.
That’s how the innocent story of Lara Jean, a highschool girl begins.
The fact that this is a girl who hasn’t already kissed 20 guys before the age of 20 hit home at least with me. The touch of the Korean culture made it a little more fresh and not the typical ‘wall flower and rockstar fall in love’ story.
Just when you are about to end the first book with a warm, gooey and happy feeling inside you- Bam! You realize there is a sequel!!! And trust me, at this point, you will not want to pick any book other than continue taking that addictive doze of this chocolaty, sweet and quite simplistically real piece of fiction.
P.S. I Still Love You portrays how you feel about the book itself perfectly. Even though sequels are cursed with never living up to the mark set by the first one, this one actually manages to maintain, if not elevate, all the qualities that made the first book so lovable. It introduces a tinge of drama with the approach approach dilemma, that every girl faces, about which of the cute boys to choose from. And trust me, it still stays as innocent as can be. And I should warn you, if you are a girl and straight, you’ll fall in love quite a few times throughout this book.
You race to the end in order to calm down your conflicting heart and Dha! Dha! Dha! It ends in a way that you will be banging on the doors of your bookstore (real or virtual) at 2:30 A.M. for the next book in the series.
Because Always and Forever is practically the end to the whole series and I have a policy of not revealing the end in any way, I’ll not talk too much about this one. Just know that it somehow manages to maintain the beautiful ‘clear sunny skies’, ‘fresh green grass’ and ‘eating a decadent chocolate cake while sitting in a rose scented room in your most comfy clothes’ feeling.
Overall, the whole series is a treat to read. It’s like the heart doing trampoline jumps on a big fluffy cushion. It is a sequence of highs and lows but you never get hurt.
P.S. keep the ingredients of those choco- chip cookies ready in the pantry.
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