Book Review :: P.S I Still Love You, by Jenny Han

P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
ISBN: 1407157981
Series: To All the Boys I've Loved Before #2
Also in this series: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Published by Scholastic Press
on 2015-05-26
Genres: Romance, Young Adult
Pages: 337
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Lara Jean didn’t expect to really fall for Peter.

They had just been pretending. Except suddenly they weren't. Now Lara Jean is more confused than ever.
Then another boy from her past returns to her life, and Lara Jean's feelings for him return too.
Can a girl be in love with two boys at the same time?

Last updated on 19 March 2023

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My thoughts on P.S I Still Love You

Well, I finally got around to reading P.S I Still Love You. It only took me two years. I read To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before back in 2018, and Sophie and I chatted about both the book and the movie in our Season 1 Episode 4 of Rants and Reviews. But I didn’t end up picking up the second book, P.S I Still Love You until last month. Unsure why it just didn’t happen. I think, in part, it was because the movie came out this year, and so I wanted to read the book before watching the movie, so it kicked me A into G a bit. You’ll be pleased to know that I also have read the third and final in this series, Always and Forever, Lara Jean. Review of that coming soon. But in the meantime …

While P.S I Still Love You was a good story, I didn’t like it as much as I did To All The Boys. I remember liking Peter way more in the first book than I did in book two, but I really liked John Ambrose McClaren in P.S I Still Love You. So that was an annoying internal conflict. But as the story went on, I did find myself rooting for Peter over John. Which I think was how it was meant to be, so I guess that’s good?

“People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they’re not. There’s no telling how long you will have them near.”

My main gripe with the story is that the part that I really enjoyed the most was when the group of friends (and ex-friends) get together to open their time capsule they buried under Lara Jean’s neighbour’s treehouse (which is getting taken down in the near future). After opening the time capsule that they buried about 5 years prior, they decide they should play a last game of Assassin. The game goes like this: everyone puts their own name into a hat, and everyone draws a name from the hat. Whoever you draw, that’s your target, and you need to place two hands on their shoulders to get them out. You then take the name that they had and try to get that person out. Each person’s home is a safe house, as is school. The last person standing gets to have one wish granted from anyone in the group.

I love the idea of this game! I really wish that the game was something that ran through the entire story, rather than starting halfway through and ending with about a quarter of the book to go. It’s a concept that I think could have made the book a lot more quirky and fun. Not that it wasn’t fun, but it would have made it that little bit more entertaining.

Having said that, I did really like the addition of John Ambrose to the story, and some of the side stories that were going on, like Gen’s family troubles, Lara Jean visiting Stormy at the Belleview retirement home etc. Overall, I did enjoy it (probably a 3.5 star), but not as much as TATBILB.

If you’ve only read TATILB, then I do recommend picking up P.S I Still Love You if you’re like me and you haven’t already. If you’d like to read more of my thoughts on the book and the movie, and compare the two, head on over to Blogger’s Bookshelf where I unpack this a little bit more.

If you have already read it, what did you think? Did the movie do it justice?