Book Review- To All the Boys I've Loved Before

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
♦publisher: Simon and Schuster 
♦release date: April 15, 2014
♦hardcover, 288 pages
♦intended audience: Young adult
♦rating: ♥♥♥♥♥

Review:

“And then he’s kissing me back, open mouthed soft lipped kissing -me- back.”

Laura Jean is just a regular girl, with two sisters, a dad who loves her, and wonderful memories of her mother before she died. A girl who has been in love precisely, five times. Not a love where you hold hands, kiss and talk late at night, just love from an act, a smile, or something that they did. The one thing all the boys had in common, is that none of them knew Lara Jean even had feelings for them. The only person who knows is Lara Jean and her secret is safely hidden away in a hat box. A hat box that contains precisely, five love letters, one to each of the boys that she has loved before. Not love letters in the sense of the word, but Lara Jean’s way of saying goodbye.  It is her way to let go of her “all-consuming love,” that she has for each boy.

Thought to be safe in her mother’s hatbox, Lara Jean’s world comes crashing down when she realizes that not only her hat box has disappeared but so have the letters. As the boys start approaching her about the letters that were mailed to them, Lara Jean’s world opens up to a whole new adventure. Causing the boys that once held her love, to re- enter Lara Jean’s life, whether she likes it or not.

Ranging from the boy who saved a drowning kid at summer camp, to the charismatic popular lacrosse player and even her sister’s newly ex-boyfriend. Soon, Lara Jean has to face each boy as they question her letters. Spinning Lara Jean into a world of hiding the truth with lies, a pretend romance and even more heart break. Maybe the letters just might open a door to unknown possibilities, teaching her that image is not always what is seems.

Can love really be in the cards for Lara Jean, or will the letter be the beginning of the end, for a perfect chance at love?