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Years ago, I was hooked on this author Stephanie Perkins after falling in love with her two books in the Anna and the French Kiss series. I found them easy to read and the characters were lovable. For years, I had wanted to read Book #3 Isla and the Happily Ever After, however, with more books being released every day and new titles appearing, this book went to the bottom of the list until recently when I saw that our library had just purchased a copy. I was so happy. Though I felt let down a bit with this book and me do wonder if that was due to my age as I was in my early-mid 20's when I read the books and now I am nearing 30, and I find that some YA books just don't grab me as much as they used to in the past. It could be as simple as the fact that the storylines are so similar that they are drilled into me, and my excitement level doesn't get peaked as high as it used to. Isla and the Happily Ever After was one of those stories sadly. Isla is nearing the last year of her time at the SOAP and has had a major crush on Josh. Is this her year to finally make her crush dreams a reality? Of course, what's a bit of romance if it isn't forbidden or has a lot of obstacles in the way. Isla and the Happily Ever After definitely is one of those Teen Angst/Romance reads that are popular as everyone needs a bit of angst in our lives. One of the things that I loved about this book was the reunion of the past books #1 and #2 characters like Etienne St Clair, Anna, Cricket, Lola, and Calliope. This made me smile as it was great to see what they have gotten up to past their story endings. Isla and the Happily Ever After are the perfect romance/angst read for the YA Audience. Especially those around 14-16 years of age.


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Isla and the Happily Ever After Stephanie Perkins Books Reviews

After reading Anna and the French Kiss and Lola and the Boy Next Door, I couldn't wait to get my hands on Isla and the Happily Ever After. Isla is first introduced in Anna and the French Kiss and now she has her very own novel. Isla Martin has been crushing on Josh Wasserstein for years but always held back because Josh had a girlfriend. Isla bumps into him at a café in Manhattan, New York City before school starts and catches up with him. I think it is cute how she has been pining him for years but I did find it a bit stalkerish when she wanted to see if he returned to the café day after day. Isla and Josh are both seniors in high school at a boarding school in France. She even researches more about him online and even ends up living in his previous room at the residence hall at the School of America in Paris.

I enjoy reading about how Isla and Josh become a couple. Reading about how Isla and Josh interlace each others' fingers and how they are completely honest with each other is part of the journey. I absolutely love how Josh is creative, artistic and doesn't care about what others think about him. Although Perkins conveyed romance quite well in this novel, Perkins also touches upon strong friendships. Isla is good friends Kurt Donald Cobain Bacon. Kurt is the rational one. He helps Isla figure out what she should do when she doubts herself. I definitely love how Perkins includes a reference to Kurt Cobain in the novel. And of course, I was excited to read about the Harry Potter reference.

I cried when I read this book. It's full of love, heartbreak, drama and so much more. Perkins captures what it means to be in love so perfectly. Isla and the Happily Ever After echoes To All the Boys I've Loved Before and P.S. I Still Love You, both by Jenny Han. Gen reminds me of Margot and Hattie definitely reminds me of Kitty. The sisterly bonding is very similar to To All the Boys I've Before. I find it interesting that the youngest sister in both books impulsively sends something in the mail which leads to happy endings for Isla and Laura Jean.

Although Anna, Lola and Isla are interconnected, they are unique and they carry themselves differently. I love the cameos of characters from Anna and the French Kiss and Lola and the Boy Next Door. It definitely made the book more special. The novel is full of emotions. I was riding a roller coaster. Isla and Josh are meant to be and to read about their journey about good and bad times is important. Work hard for what you want! Don't give up! Anything is possible! Isla and Josh Forever!
Sigh. I just adore Stephanie Perkins' young adult novels. This one has taken a long time to arrive, but it was well worth the wait. After taking an American detour in the second book of the series, we get to return to France for the finale of the series. This story is told through the first person narration of Isla. And yes, I know that her name is pronounced "eye-la" not "Iz-la," but I could never make my brain think the correct pronunciation. I struggled with that through the book. Either way ... Isla has been in love with Josh from afar since her freshman year. But Josh seemed to be way out of her league, at least in her mind. So through three years of high school Josh had his group of friends and a super steady girlfriend while Isla mostly hung out with her best friend forever, Kurt, a young man with high functioning autism who is squarely in the friend zone with her. She has her own boyfriend for awhile, and when he left the picture people still believed that Isla and Kurt were an item. So although Isla sported a major crush on Josh, the two lived in two separate spheres within their school.

All that changes right before Josh and Isla enter their senior year and they have a chance encounter in a New York cafe late at night. Suddenly these two have a connection to draw them together when they return to school, giving Isla a reason to push herself out of her shy awkwardness around Josh.

The romance of this story seems to steam ahead very quickly. Very quickly. Josh and Isla are already a couple before the book is even a third of the way through. They seem wonderful together. What could possibly go wrong with that much time left in the book? What often happens in YA books such as this is that the author creates a thousand melodramatic moments to drive the couple together then apart then together over and over again. However, Stephanie Perkins manages to just create simple, often sweet. moments in the life of Josh and Isla that show the growth of the relationship as well as the insecurities that will create strain within that relationship. Ultimately this is the story of a girl who doesn't really believe in herself. Isla is beautiful and talented and engaging. There are so many reasons for others to love her, but deep down she doesn't truly believe that about herself. That makes a relationship with Josh seem almost unrealistic to her. How could this talented, gorgeous, superstar son of a US senator really truly love her? In her mind it makes no sense, and as long as Isla harbors these feelings of inadequacy she will never truly be comfortable in a relationship with Josh.

What I really, really loved

The relationship between Isla and Josh. I didn't love it because it was perfect. It was not. Not at all. These two rushed right into the relationship with both feet. They were all in, full of overwhelming passion and desire for each other. They couldn't concentrate on much besides each other. They were deeply, madly in love ... almost from the beginning. But as much as the relationship soared from the start, it was just as quick to find itself crashing, and when it crashed it crashed hard. So no ... this relationship was not perfect. But it really encapsulated what a high school romance is like in so many ways. As we first experience those amazing feelings of love for another it can be like a blazing fire, all consuming and maybe a little suffocating (but in a good way, if that makes sense). But as quick as those feelings burn, they can be doused almost as fast, and when they do it can be devastating. That is what Isla and Josh discover. They experience the highs of first love, but along with it comes jealousy and misunderstanding and hurt. If this relationship is to endure Isla has got to realize her own self worth, independent of anyone else. Josh is going to have to find a way to handle his conflicts in positive ways, taking responsibility for his actions and owning up to his true feelings about the direction of his life. Both Josh and Isla have to grow up, and Stephanie Perkins does an amazing job at walking readers through the ups and downs of this relationship. She keeps us engaged and involved with the characters without causing us to be horribly annoyed with some of their bad decisions. This was a sweet relationship to read. Even when it was obvious that they were way over the top at the beginning of their dating, I still rooted for them to work their way through things because it was obvious that the two of them were good together.

This was a wonderful finale to this series. I still think that Anna and the French Kiss is the best of the three books, but all three got five stars from me. We get to see all our favorite characters from the first two books in this one for a little bit. I haven't read the first two books in awhile, but this story made me want to go back and revisit the previous books because I love the characters Stephanie creates so much. They are definitely must read books for fans of YA romance literature. Five stars!
Years ago, I was hooked on this author Stephanie Perkins after falling in love with her two books in the Anna and the French Kiss series. I found them easy to read and the characters were lovable. For years, I had wanted to read Book #3 Isla and the Happily Ever After, however, with more books being released every day and new titles appearing, this book went to the bottom of the list until recently when I saw that our library had just purchased a copy. I was so happy. Though I felt let down a bit with this book and me do wonder if that was due to my age as I was in my early-mid 20's when I read the books and now I am nearing 30, and I find that some YA books just don't grab me as much as they used to in the past. It could be as simple as the fact that the storylines are so similar that they are drilled into me, and my excitement level doesn't get peaked as high as it used to. Isla and the Happily Ever After was one of those stories sadly. Isla is nearing the last year of her time at the SOAP and has had a major crush on Josh. Is this her year to finally make her crush dreams a reality? Of course, what's a bit of romance if it isn't forbidden or has a lot of obstacles in the way. Isla and the Happily Ever After definitely is one of those Teen Angst/Romance reads that are popular as everyone needs a bit of angst in our lives. One of the things that I loved about this book was the reunion of the past books #1 and #2 characters like Etienne St Clair, Anna, Cricket, Lola, and Calliope. This made me smile as it was great to see what they have gotten up to past their story endings. Isla and the Happily Ever After are the perfect romance/angst read for the YA Audience. Especially those around 14-16 years of age.