To All the Boys I've Loved Before: Volume 1

Jenny Han

Apr 2014 · To All the Boys I've Loved Before Book 1 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is now a major motion picture on Netflix and the inspiration for the spin-off series XO, Kitty—now streaming on Netflix!
A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)

Lara Jean’s love life gets complicated in this New York Times bestselling “lovely, lighthearted romance” (School Library Journal) from the bestselling author of The Summer I Turned Pretty series.

What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them…all at once?

Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of control.

Ratings and reviews

I bought this book on sale. It was $3, and the plot seemed interesting enough, so I thought I'd give it a go, and am I glad I did. Even though it did have some light cussing and talked slightly about subject matters I wasn't comfortable with (older-teen territory), it's still a good book about love. I loved the sisterhood between Margo-Lara Jean-and Kitty. My favorite scenes were mostly with them. And I loved that it took place in the late part of the year. This book makes me want to read the next one - "P.S. I Still Love You".

This book is really predictable, by page 14 I already knew how it was going to end. It was like watching a really horrible ABC family movie and thinking "I'm never get that hour of my life back" that's how cliche it is

This book is great if you are looking for a light read. However, I would not recommend this to someone looking for something more substantial. Each character is authentic, believable, and purposeful, but there is not a strong enough main conflict or to test them.

About the author

Jenny Han is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before series, now Netflix movies. She is also the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling The Summer I Turned Pretty series, now streaming on Amazon Prime, as well as Shug, and Clara Lee and the Apple Pie Dream. She is the coauthor of the Burn for Burn trilogy, with Siobhan Vivian. Her books have been published in more than thirty languages. A former librarian, Jenny earned her MFA in creative writing at the New School. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.