From the publishers:
What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them...all at once?
Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren't love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she's written. One for every boy she's ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control.
Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren't love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she's written. One for every boy she's ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control.
My thoughts:
According to the publisher, this is going to be a major motion picture. That does not surprise me. What surprised me is that I made it through. I could not take the main character but I stuck it out because I think there is a middle school reader (female) who will just devour these and feel like there is hope that things will change in high school.
It is not my cup of tea, but I understand how there is a market for this.
Follow up:
The movie version of this with a very adorable Lara Condor is adorable, even for adults. I gave it to my middle/secondary teacher candidates as one of their teen movie options for their reflection paper and they all love it. A Netflix film.
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