Isla and the Happily Ever After

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Oh man! So, the time has come! I have officially finished the Anna and the French Kiss (this trilogy really needs a new name) trilogy and I am so sad to be leaving all this cuteness! Stephanie always does a great job with the writing and describing Paris in such great ways. Of course, Anna did a lot of that because most of the book took place in Paris. The romance is just adorable and I really enjoyed the characters in this book. It was really nice to be back in SOAP (School of America in Paris) again as well. If you are up for a cute romance contemporary, definitely got for the Anna and the French Kiss trilogy.

Isla and the Happily Ever After takes place back in Paris (some of it is in New York) and I loved being back in Paris. (Story wise) Anyway, this story is just basically about a young couple falling in love and dealing with the stuff a normal relationship goes through. The thought of college, family, and just change in all. I though the challenges they faced were a pretty accurate portrayal of what people normally faced.

I liked Isla. She is definitely the most different from Lola and Anna. She is quiet, shy, and very unconfident. Plus, it took awhile for Isla to really trust Josh in their relationship and even after it got pretty serious she had a bit of doubt in Josh and his feelings for Rashmi, I have to admit, she bugged me just a tad bit but I still really like her.

Josh is the person we remember him to be. Still very attracted to art, adventurous, and still skipping class. I really liked learning more about him because we barely got to know him in Anna. He is just such a fun person to be around and I loved that. Of course, in order to have fun you must break rules but that is what makes things fun sometimes. Josh really brought Isla out of his shell and makes her more carefree.

This plot was probably the cutest. There was no love triangle or anything getting in the way; it was just a nice relationship. We got to see the first kiss and falling in love and it was all a very a very blissful and best of all, none of the characters were already in a relationship. That's what I really loved about this book and how different it is from Anna and Lola-it was simple. There was no other person or complications for a great period of time and I loved reading them be in such a great bliss. I just loved reading about their story, the ups and downs, and their cuteness.

Lola and the Boy Next Door 

Can I just say how cute Stephanie Perkins' books are. The romance is always so cute and I just love the fun that always comes into these books. Lola and the Boy Next Door takes place in San Francisco (WHOOOO! NorCal! :D) and I really enjoyed Lola but I think Anna has to be my most favorite book out of this trilogy. (Yes, I've read Isla by the time I'm writing this review) See the thing about Stephanie's books is that we all know how it's going to end okay? We're not here to see how these books end, we're here for the adventure and the path it took to get to the ending of the book. If you haven't started this trilogy, I definitely recommend you get to it.

Lola and the Boy Next Door is about a girl, Lola, who loves to dress up. She wears wigs and crazy outfits and they seem like the most awesomest things ever. Honestly this girl is pretty committed to this everyday-Halloween if she can wake up every morning and spend so much time to look like a different person. She has a boyfriend her parents disapprove of and her life isn't exactly perfect. Then the Bells move in next door again. They have been moved out of the house a few years ago and when they moved out Lola didn't want to see the Bell twins, Calliope and Cricket again. For reason in which you will find out when you read the book.This story is basically what happens with Isla when the twins move back into the house next door.

I actually really liked Lola. I thought she was confident, kind, and just a person I would love to be friends with. Throughout the book, you see her really experience drama and she could have made better decisions but that is just the learning process. I really liked reading about the character development she went through in the book because things are changing around her and the changes she had to make within her personality was so great to read about. She become more confident (not that she wasn't already), was able to figure who she was, and just the experiences she went through really defined her talents and abilities. 

Max, Lola's boyfriend was someone I don't really like. He was a bit possessive, kind of a jerk, and definitely the jealous type. Don't get me wrong though, there were times where he got his head out of his ass for a minute and he was such a decent person at those times.

I really did like Cricket though. He was just a sweetheart. He had such great respect for the fact that Lola had a boyfriend and she was already taken. They still continued to be friends though and I really loved that. One thing I have noticed about him is he is a very shy and quiet person. Cricket's sister has been the big factor in the family. They move to different places because of her and he just goes along with it and that has caused him to become a quiet person. He never really was a person who got a lot of attention in his family so I am not surprised if he has a very introverted personality.

"I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else"
- Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

The plot for this book was a great one to read about. I just loved how it had it's dramatic parts but there were fun times as well. Lola and the Boy Next Door had so many huge things going on left and right it was a book jam-packed with things going on. I didn't feel as things were moving too fast but I also didn't feel as though this book was too slow for my liking. If anything, it flowed very nicely. The ending was just so great. The book has been building up to this one event and this event really said something about Lola's relationship with *person* how good of a person this person is.

I gave this book 4.5 stars because I loved the characters and plot but I just didn't enjoy it as much as the other books in this series.

Anna and the French Kiss