To be honest, I really wasn't too excited about this book when I first read about it. It sounded cute, but not something I was much into at the time. However, I'd heard good thing about Jenny Han's books and I began to see it popping up more and more around the web. So when the e-book went on sale for two dollars, it seemed perfectly logical to give it a try. All I had to do was wait until I felt the urge to read a contemporary book - which usually takes a while. Overall, I felt this book was a mix of good things and bad, and maybe it leaned slightly more towards bad. 
 The good: 
 - Although I wasn't super engrossed in the story as a whole, when it did get interesting I couldn't put it down. 
 - I really appreciated the relationship between Lara Jean and her family - this book features a lot of love between her and her sisters and her dad. They all deeply cared about each other. 
 - Of all the characters, Peter was my favorite. He was funny, cute and just an all-around good guy. 
 - The plot was easy to follow. Sometimes after an endless string of fantasy novels with complex worlds of their own, it's nice to read something set in our world with nothing overly complicated going on. 
 - Despite how much I disliked Lara Jean's narrative, I appreciated the whimsical, fun feel of the writing style. 
 The bad: 
 - I simply could not connect with Lara Jean. She had such an immature voice; I couldn't picture her as a sixteen year old. I kept imagining her as maybe twelve or thirteen. She's just so naive about absolutely everything, and not realistic at all. What's worse, this never changes throughout the course of the book. I was even a little creeped out when she was kissing boys and thinking about sex because to me, she was so young. 
 - I'm not sure if the author intended for us to like Josh or not, but I didn't. Lara Jean thought it was betrayal of the worst kind to want her sister's ex-boyfriend, and maybe she's right. But you can't always help you who like, so I didn't really fault her much for that. I didn't really see what was so great about him myself, though. 
 - The romance in the book is cute, but I never found myself rooting that much for it. I briefly wondered if she was going to end up with Josh or Peter, but I had no real preference. 
 - I enjoyed it while I read it, but when I put it down I had no strong desire to pick it back up. 
 - This is the spoiler part - I was really annoyed when Lara Jean briefly broke up with Peter because of the rumor going around about her having sex with him in a hot tub on the ski trip. It's not like he started it, someone else did. 
 - This book has no ending. I realize that there is a second book coming, but it was extremely open-ended. 
 I don't regret reading To All the Boys I Loved Before - in fact, I may purchase a physical copy of it for my shelf sometime and I'll definitely read the sequel (P.S. I Still Love You) at some point. But there were a lot of things about it that just plain annoyed me. I own a copy of The Summer I Turned Pretty, so I'm going to try some of Han's other work as well.