Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han

Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han

Third and final book in the Lara Jean series by Jenny Han

 

(taken from Amazon.com)

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?

Always and Forever, Lara Jean was the unintentional final book in Jenny Han's trilogy about Lara Jean. In comparison to the first two books of the series, I liked this unexpected third one better than the second, but not as much as the first. I think I liked Lara Jean in this book better than I had in the second, when she fell into a darker character arc. She matures in this one instead, and has a different outlook on life, despite her clingy feelings towards her boyfriend. This book is more about learning to move on and how to embark on new life chapters, rather than coming to terms with one's own darkness, and in general, I liked that character arc for Lara Jean better. 

Overall Rating: 5 / 10 Stars 

I gave this one five stars because I mildly enjoyed it; it was an easy beach-type, light chick lit read, but at the same time, it lack some of the drama that made the first and second book of the series go so quickly and kept the reader reading.