Title: Isla and the Happily Ever After
Release Date: August 14th, 2014
Genre: romance, young adult, contemporary
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Love ignites in the City That Never Sleeps, but can it last?
Hopeless romantic Isla has had a crush on introspective cartoonist Josh since their first year at the School of America in Paris. And after a chance encounter in Manhattan over the summer, romance might be closer than Isla imagined. But as they begin their senior year back in France, Isla and Josh are forced to confront the challenges every young couple must face, including family drama, uncertainty about their college futures, and the very real possibility of being apart. Featuring cameos from fan-favorites Anna, Étienne, Lola, and Cricket, this sweet and sexy story of true love—set against the stunning backdrops of New York City, Paris, and Barcelona—is a swoonworthy conclusion to Stephanie Perkins’s beloved series.
This book.
This book.
THIS BOOK DUDE!
Me at the beginning:
like oh yeah I got the new Stephanie perkins book and I’m gonna read it and fall in love like the other two books and I’m gonna go aww in all the cute moments and fall in love with the love interest and ST.CLAIR ANNA LOLA AND CRICKET IS GONNA BE THERE TOO!?!?!?!?!?! OH YES LET’S GOOOO!!
And then once I started reading
LIKE OMG I’M CRYING I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE THIS IS JUST TOO
I
CANT
OMG
THE TEARS
AND
I will say this isn’t the best book of the series but it is the most emotional.
Anna
Lola
Isla
that’s the order of which books I liked best in this series and it breaks my heart that Stephanie won’t write anymore.
Isla was a fantastic read but this isn’t your cute fluffy usual books like Lola and Anna. While it took the whole book for Lola and Anna to be together with St.Clair and cricket, this book shows Josh and Isla’s relationship and how having a relationship young isn’t going to be easy and if I could give you a book to explain how it feels being in a relationship in your teenage years with someone you really like/liked, I would give you this book.
I related to a lot of Isla’s issues when it came to Josh and during this whole time I related to her and reminded me how I was when I was in a relationship with my first boyfriend. It’ll remind you what it was like to experience young love and how wonderful and spontaneous it could be and at the same time hard and emotional. This book showed me that I wasn’t the only one who felt these emotions and that it's normal to feel this way. There was times I even cried because stuff was just so relatable and I wasn’t alone.
“There's no story,' I say. 'I saw you one day, and I just knew.”
“I am hard on myself. But isn’t it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn’t it better to break it yourself?”
OMG WHEN ST.CLAIR, ANNA, CRICKET, AND LOLA CAME I FREAKIN FANGIRLED! Like I had to stop reading for a good ten minutes to just scream and cry tears of happiness because I missed them so much. ANNA AND ST.CLAIR AT THE END TOO WAS JUST
Like those two are like my favorite contemporary couple of all time and I was really looking forward to seeing them more than everyone else.
What also made me sad was Meredith, who we also see too. She’s like the fifth wheel of two couples, she had to see her crush/ best friend like two other girls who aren’t her, and the episode of what happened to Anna and St.Clair, I know she’s feeling major heartbreak and I hope Stephanie can make a story for her because I want to see a happy ending for her too.
“It’s midnight, it’s sweltering, and I might be high on Vicodin, but that guy - that guy right over there - that’s him.The him.”
My only complaint about this is Josh. We have our cute moments, between him and Isla and also some background in formation about him but I don’t find anything about him that seems real or special. Like how St.Clair was charming and charismatic and Cricket was so nice and just too adorable. But with Josh, I couldn’t find anything I like about him. I like the stuff that he did for Isla but nothing about him made me think “OMG I LOVE YOU WHY AREN’T YOU REAL!”
Stephanie Perkins is a master at contemporary and she succeed in making my heart grow and at the same time break. Guys, even her acknowledgement to her husband was just too amazing!
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