Isla and the Happily Ever After

Isla and the Happily Ever After 

by Stephanie Perkins 

      Sad, sad day. I love Stephanie Perkins and her first two books are some of my all time favorites! I think a few things contributed to the DNF of Isla and the Happily Ever After. For one, I wish I would have read this way back when I read Anna and Lola. Really back when I was super into YA contemporaries. My biggest problem though was that I just didn’t like Isla. I couldn’t connect to her, and I felt like she was trying almost to hard to be corky and unique. I will say I did read about half of this before dnf’ing. I tried really really hard to love this. I kept chugging along, but eventually decided I was bored out of my mind. Like I said, it’s a combination of things. This book isn’t bad, really at all. I think the right person can really enjoy this. I think it was just the wrong time for me and way past when I should have read it. The relationship too was just a little childish. Almost like the author forced them to be together because she wanted to write another book in this world. 

    Now Josh, he was really cute for about 25%, but as soon as him and Isla got together I couldn’t stand him. He changed, and I don’t know. The relationship overall was just a major flop. I wasn’t interested, things were moving WAY to fast, and really I felt like the book had no plot. I could be wrong, maybe the other half of the book is full of crazy plot twists and emotional scenes but I doubt it, and really there are so many books I want to read that I try not to force myself to read books. I do hate DNF’ing though so I try and give a book a good chance, unless it’s downright awful. So I did give Isla a good chance and simply put it’s just not my cup of tea. I’m going to donate it to my library though and I’m sure other readers will get more joy out of it then I did because like I said, there is nothing wrong with this book. It’s just too young for me, to easy. If that even makes sense, almost like it’s TO light hearted. If you feel the same way about it definitely let me know! xo