I just completely love the detail that Jenny Han puts into this series from the food (yaas to all the chocolate chip cookie baking in this one) to Lara Jean’s clothes (Lara Jean’s prom dress) and even to Peter’s lacrosse experience. Most YA contemporaries kind of skip this part or shove it in near the end as a sort of cherry on top of the icing at the end of the book and more often than not, they just get accepted into their dream school nbd. Moments like these are what I’ve always loved about this series. Not gonna lie, I kind of teared up a little when Lara Jean is anxiously opening up her email that determines whether she got accepted or rejected to UVA. I swear some scenes in this book took me back to some exact moments of my high school career. Lara Jean has plans for her future but they all start to unravel and she starts to question what is truly the right path for her. They have graduation coming up and all the other things high school seniors look forward to: the senior trip, prom and of course the anxiety of college admissions. In this one, Lara Jean and Peter are in their final year of high school. There is something so natural about this story that I’ve never been able to find in other YA contemporaries. So that same night, I started writing, and I couldn’t stop. One night I called up my best friend and sometimes co-author Siobhan Vivian and asked her, would it be crazy if I wrote just one more book? She said not at all. But I suppose time and space had made me nostalgic, because they were all I could think about. Always, it had been meant to be just the two.
I Still Love You, I truly was done with the series. My mind kept drifting to Lara Jean and Peter, I kept thinking wistful thoughts, like, I wonder what those two are up to now. Last winter, I was working on a new book, and I just couldn’t figure out how to unlock it. In an interview, Jenny Han spoke about how she was working on her new project but couldn’t because she kept thinking about what Lara Jean and Peter were up to. The story of this book’s inception is heartwarming in its own way.
And at the end, even though I knew it was the end, I still felt like there was so much more story left to these characters, that these characters have blossomed into people that I knew.Īs with any last book in the series, I felt that preanxiety that comes with having such high expectations of a final novel. In that 8 hour time span, my dear reader, I felt unbearable warmth, happiness and most of all nostalgia. I started reading this book at 5pm on Saturday and kept reading until 1 in the morning with only an hourish break for dinner. Mild Spoilers for first two books but spoiler free for the last one.
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