Always and Forever, Lara Jean (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #3)

by Jenny Han

Lara Jean is having the best senior year a girl could ever hope for. She is head over heels in love with her boyfriend, Peter; her dad’s finally getting remarried to their next door neighbor, Ms. Rothschild; and Margot’s coming home for the summer just in time for the wedding.

But change is looming on the horizon. And while Lara Jean is having fun and keeping busy helping plan her father’s wedding, she can’t ignore the big life decisions she has to make. Most pressingly, where she wants to go to college and what that means for her relationship with Peter. She watched her sister Margot go through these growing pains. Now Lara Jean’s the one who’ll be graduating high school and leaving for college and leaving her family—and possibly the boy she loves—behind.

When your heart and your head are saying two different things, which one should you listen to?

• ISBN13: 9781407177663
• Publish Date: 4 May 2017 (first published 2 May 2017)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Scholastic
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 336
• Language: English

Reviews

[jesstheaudiobookworm]

😍 😍 😍

[pagingserenity]

Full review on Paging Serenity.

Yeah, I'm starting to think I might be a bit too jaded for this series. I dunno in To All the Boys I thought Lara Jean's naivety, while a bit annoying, was overall cute and sweet. But at this point, I feel like she never learns. It's kinda of the same basic plotline for all three books.

[Chelsea]

Maybe it was just me but I was a little annoyed with Lara Jean in this one. She just felt extra young to me and I had a hard time listening to her sometimes.

I really really glad for this story though. Glad to see an author wrote a character who didn't get into her first choice of university and struggled with the decision of what to do. I was also really glad that she made a great choice without following her friends or boyfriend. We need ore books like this, though Lara Jean made it look pretty easy.

All the characters we loved are now grow up and I think it was a lot of fun seeing that. I'm sad this series is over but happy that it ended the way it did.

[jeannamichel]

Lara Jean and all of your favorite characters are back in the last and final book in Jenny Han’s contemporary series. It’s senior year and everything is going well. Lara Jean has a boyfriend, good grades and an amazing family. Now all she has to do is wait for confirmation that she has gotten into the college of her dreams. When college acceptances start rolling in, the unexpected happens which forces Lara Jean to change her plans, change her future. Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han is an adorable tale that will be sure to warm your heart.

It is always good to come back to an amazing series. Stepping my feet into the gorgeous life of Lara Jean—the wonderful characters we have grown to love, and the adorable family life Lara Jean has—it was like coming home.

When I opened the book to the first page, I expected a cute, realistic story. Jenny Han does not disappoint. It seems with each new installment, Lara Jean and Kitty and the whole Song family (and maybe all the characters) keep getting cuter. To be honest, the book doesn’t pick up until page 80, when we start to get into the meat or the conflict of the story. Until then, it is the adorableness that we have grown to expect from a Lara Jean novel.

The contemporary genre should definitely welcome more series. I think getting to know these characters for three novels and being a part of Lara Jean’s life for so many milestones was a truly gorgeous time. The story came together for each novel seamlessly.

Jenny Han is a wonderful writer, she excels in the contemporary genre, truly bringing everything to life. This is a series you can return to again and again.

There is little development and a plot that is not too exciting. However despite that, I absolutely loved every second of this book. I was never bored. I think with this book, it was more of spending as much time with these characters as I could before the end.

In my review for Han’s sequel, P.S. I Still Love You, I mentioned that the ending seemed so indecisive. It wasn’t anything special, a satisfying end that was just okay. So I’m happy that Jenny Han took the time to continue the story, in Always and Forever, Lara Jean, and make a gorgeous ending that will have you smiling so much that your cheeks start to hurt.

Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han is an adorable puppy dog of a book, it comes running up to you so happily and even when it leaves, the smile on your face doesn’t vanish. Jenny Han welcomed us into Lara Jean’s realistic and fantastic life and, though this is the last book, Lara Jean will always and forever stay in our hearts.

[Jyc]

★★★★☆ // covey ♡ kavinsky forever. a decent ending to a pretty pleasant series. i still have my reservations, character-wise, but this last installment was a nice read so i’ll let it go.

[catiebug]

I love this series so much. It's so cute! And it's a quick and easy read.

[Bianca]

And who knows what will happen between now and then? By then we’ll be such different people. Thinking of him in his twenties, I feel a sense of yearning for the man I may never get to meet. Right now, today, he’s still a boy, and I know him better than anybody, but what if it isn’t always this way?

— About growing up and learning to deal with change. This was just adorable and lovely and it gave me warm feelings all over.

[layawaydragon]

I was SO EXCITED when this book was announced. I was honestly hoping either John would come back or it would convince me to love Peter K. even a fraction as much as most other fans. Well, both statements wound up being true, but not in the way I was hoping. (No worry, no love angles here or anything!)

I did cry. I did crave cookies. I did not expect what happened at all, but damn did I love it. Most of it. Okay, fine Peter K. group, you've officially won. But they seem to have a lot of unnecessary drama between the two. I'm just sayin'.

[Brianna]

4.5 THAT ENDING THOUGH