Although I liked 
 Lola and the Boy Next Door 
 , I didn't enjoy it near as much as I enjoyed 
 Anna and the French Kiss 
 and I read both of them while being on vacation relaxed (ergo, the circumstances of the reading were very similar, not the settings, though). 
 First I didn't like Lola. I liked her individuality and sense of style, especially because I'm the opposite of her (never use make-up, never would wear a wig and I can't do my hair, although I sure like colours in my clothes). I envied her creativity and skills with the needle... but she annoyed the hell out of me. She spent a lot of time whinning. You can tell me: "She's a teenager, that's what teenagers do", and I can't deny that, but still... It was annoying. She was annoying... I can't fall for a shallow character v.v 
 Cricket was very cute and lovely, but too weak for a male character, I couldn't stop myself from picturing him like Cameron in 10 things I hate about you, the TV series. I don't have anything against Nicholas Braun, in fact I think he's a cutie, but no hottie, so I couldn't see or feel the hot guy in Cricket. Ok, St. Clair wasn't a hottie either, but he had charisma. Cricket didn't impressed me much, he was nice and awww, but that's it. 
 And for the story, it didn't impress me much either. If the characters don't impress me, the plot has to be interesting and/or surprising to catch your attention and in a romantic novel it's quite difficult to do something like that without charismatic people. Not even Anna or St.Clair made it interesting, they became dull in this book, although it was nice to see them again :) 
 For the rest, I still like Stephanie Perkins' writing. That and the lovely love stories she can create will make me read the third book in this kind-of trilogy. How will Lola appear in this one? Will Anna have a role as well?