Rating: 4.5 
 I liked this book but I didn't love it like Anna and the french kiss. 
 I don't know how Stephanie Perkins does it but when I read Anna, I wanted to go fall in love in Paris. Now in Lola, I felt like I was in San Francisco but I have never been there. One thing that was a surprise to me was when Anna and Etienne showed up in this book! How freakin' clever!!! 
 Lola is a great female main character. She is spunky and doesn't care what others think of her or how she dresses (even though she does go through a period in the book wearing only black). I liked how she doesn't come from a "traditional" family. I really can't remember the last YA book that I read that the main character had same sex parents. She knows what she wants (even those she is blinded by Max) and goes for it! 
 And now finally Cricket, awwww, wish he was someone I could meet in real life. He is way better than Etienne and probably the best love interest I have read in a book in a long time. So smart and spunky, like I said I need to have a Cricket in my life! 
 This cover is 100% better than Anna. I didn't like how you couldn't see the guy on the Anna and this one is so creative. When I see the houses on the cover, they remind me of the show Full House (maybe the houses on that street were the inspiration). 
 "I wish it didn't hurt to think about him. And I'm not upset because I want to be with him, I don't, but he was so much to be for so long. He was my future. And now he's nothing. I gave him everything, and now he's nothing." I related a TON to this quote, probably one of the best lines that Lola said. I have to say I have dated a lot of Max's in my life but I haven't found my Cricket yet. 
 I can't wait to read Stephanie's next book!