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“Stephanie Perkins’s characters fall in love the way we all want to, in real time and for good.” —Rainbow Rowell, Award-winning, bestselling author of Eleanor & Park and Fangirl
A New York Times Bestseller
Love ignites in the City That Never Sleeps, but can it last?
Hopeless romantic Isla has had a crush on introspective cartoonist Josh since their first year at the School of America in Paris. And after a chance encounter in Manhattan over the summer, romance might be closer than Isla imagined. But as they begin their senior year back in France, Isla and Josh are forced to confront the challenges every young couple must face, including family drama, uncertainty about their college futures, and the very real possibility of being apart.
Featuring cameos from fan-favorites Anna, Étienne, Lola, and Cricket, this sweet and sexy story of true love—set against the stunning backdrops of New York City, Paris, and Barcelona—is a swoonworthy conclusion to Stephanie Perkins’s beloved series.
- Sales Rank: #125408 in Books
- Brand: Perkins, Stephanie
- Published on: 2014-08-14
- Released on: 2014-08-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.25" w x 5.75" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 352 pages
From School Library Journal
Gr 9 Up—While the main characters from the previous books make brief appearances in this trilogy ender, this story centers on Josh and Isla, seniors at the French boarding school where Anna and the French Kiss took place. Shy Isla has always had a crush on artistic free spirit Josh, and when they finally connect everyone is happy—until Josh gets expelled and Isla destroys their relationship, reasoning that it would hurt less if they broke up now rather than later. All ends happily, though, as the title indicates. Isla is narrated by Grace Blewer, whose performance disappoints. The introverted and insecure character of Isla is read with a confident, almost strident voice, and there is not enough differentiation among the characters' voices (except for those with French accents, which are done beautifully). Despite these drawbacks, this audiobook will be a hit with Perkins's fans and listeners who enjoy Sarah Dessen's book.—Julie Paladino, East Chapel Hill High School, NC
Review
"Stephanie Perkins is the Jane Austen of our generation. Her stories ache, soothe, and leave you breathless with joy; there's true magic in these pages — it's an experience you won't soon forget." —Tehereh Mafi, author of the bestselling Shatter Me series.
"Fans of literary heart flutters will love it." —Booklist
"Realistic characters, spot-on dialogue, and a truly delightful romance make for a novel that will delight the author’s fans and win her legions of new ones.” —School Library Journal, starred review
"Engaging teen characters with page-turning love lives offer ample vicarious pleasures. A satisfying dose of first love’s physical and emotional thrall." —Kirkus Reviews
“Dazzling and full of raw emotion...With a smooth plot, colorful characters and witty dialogue, Perkins further establishes herself as an expert writer whose career is sure to be long and full of bright things.” —RT Book Reviews, Top Pick
Praise for Anna and the French Kiss and Lola and the Boy Next Door:
"Perkins’s debut surpasses the usual chick-lit fare with smart dialogue, fresh characters and plenty of tingly interactions." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Absorbing and enjoyable." —Booklist
"Very sly. Very funny. Very romantic. You should date this book." --Maureen Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of 13 Little Blue Envelopes and The Name of the Star
“A swoonworthy romance [with] a cast of unforgettable characters . . . Lola and the Boy Next Door is another unputdownable read.” —MTV.com
"Smart and sensual, Anna and the French Kiss is everything your heart is longing for. You'll want to live inside this story forever. More, s'il vous plait!" —Lisa McMann, New York Times bestselling author of the Wake Trilogy
"You're going to fall in love with Lola and the Boy Next Door. Madly in love! Every page sparkles." —Sarah Mylnowski, author of Ten Things We Did (And Probably Shouldn't Have) and the Whatever After series
About the Author
Stephanie Perkins (www.stephanieperkins.com) has always worked with books—first as a bookseller, then as a librarian, and now as a novelist. Stephanie lives in the mountains of North Carolina with her husband. Every room of their house is painted a different color of the rainbow.
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52 of 53 people found the following review helpful.
In the end I was happy with the direction their story went.
By Kathy Habel
I really enjoyed reading Isla and the Happily Ever After. Stephanie Perkins does a great job writing contemporary young adult romance with characters I can't help but love. For those who have like me been saying Isla's name wrong it is pronounced "eye-la". Isla and Josh's relationship was slightly rocky and had its ups and downs. Isla is insecure and unsure of the direction her life should go. Josh is the opposite and has everything figured out. They work through some of their differences together but some of their differences have to be worked through on their own.
In the end I was happy with the direction their story went.
I loved Isla's best friend Kurt and the relationship the two of them had.
As is usually the case with most young adult books I read I wish there had been a little less language and that the sex scenes had been omitted. Despite that content I still thoroughly enjoyed reading this story.
You can read Isla as a stand alone but the characters from the first two books are mentioned several times and make an appearance at the end of the book which is sure to please fans of this series. I would suggest reading the other 2 books prior to reading this one. For those who loved the first two books you are likely to love this one as well.
Rating: 5 Stars - I loved it.
Content: Not a clean read and I won't be passing it on to my teenager yet - some language including several uses of the F word, 2 short sex scenes.
Source: ARC from publisher
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Perfection!
By Andi S.
In 2010 a very good friend of mine said one thing to me that essentially changed my life. She said, ‘read Anna and the French Kiss’. Having only dabbled in reading in the past and slightly getting more into it I agreed and nothing has been the same. I have read that one book 8 times, its companion Lola and the Boy Next Door twice and most recently Isla and the Happily Ever After.
Isla was a book that I have been anticipating for years, half scared it would let down, half scared it would be amazing and leave me wanting more. Well I can tell you I was right to be scared…I WANT MORE! Holy swoon worthy fantastic batman. From start to finish it was everything I have come to expect, love and crave from the hands of Stephanie Perkins.
Isla and the Happily Ever After is the story of Isla Martin, a shy girl you catch a glimpse of in Anna and the French Kiss, and Josh Wasserstein, Etienne St. Clair’s best friend, also in Anna and the French Kiss. Isla has had a crush on Josh for 3 solid years, always on the outside looking in at he and his friends. But things are different in their senior year. Josh’s friends have all graduated and he is alone and accessible like never before. In a twist of fate Josh and Isla cross paths in an unexpected location that changes things for the both of them in ways they never could have imagined. What once seemed impossible might not be that way. However nothing is ever easy. Especially if the worse things you feel about yourself start to threaten the things you always thought you wanted. And for Josh and Isla those things might just be each other.
It’s funny because in Anna and the French Kiss you don’t really even think twice about Isla. If you haven’t read the book as many times as I have you may not even notice her. And Josh, he was a great secondary character and side kick to St. Clair, but not someone you really thought about. But I was super excited when I learned these were our two leads in Isla and the Happily Ever After. There was something that fascinated me about what I did know about them and it peaked my curiosity. Isla was your everyday, uncertain, shy teenage girl that had a crush on a guy she thought was out of reach. And Josh was the guy that seemed to not care about anything when he really cared about everything. He was sad and lonely and needed something to make him say it was okay to feel. There was a connection there that is hard to explain other than saying these two were filled with magic. And as the book progressed they changed as people and grew in ways they never would have. Magic I tell you, magic.
Another thing that Perkins does well is the secondary characters. Isla had some great people in her life that taught her things that made her grow as a person separate from her connection with Josh. Kurt was a fascinating addition that was able to be Isla’s voice of reason. He told her things she didn’t want to hear about herself but needed to hear. And then you have her sister Hattie. She was perfect with her pouting and mean façade but really she was a representation that change is scary and people act all sorts of ways when they are scared. These two characters added not only to Isla but to the story as a whole. Perfection
Honestly reviewing this book is hard for me. It’s bittersweet because this trilogy, all of these characters, mean something to me. It sounds weird but reading Isla and the Happily Ever After was the end of an era. It was like graduating and leaving everything behind. I almost felt like Josh did, all alone after losing my friends. But in true Perkins fashion she went out with a bang that made my heart sore, my cheeks hurt from smiling and my heart ache with longing. She gave me two new fantastic characters to love and brought in pieces of ones that I loved from the past. So with that I thank you Ms. Perkins for giving me these books and these characters and for doing something even more important, making me a reader.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Dreadful--and I adored her previous two books
By Bookphile
*Sighs. Hitches up ranty pants.*
Settle in, friends, this is going to be a long one, and there will be spoilers.
I'm feeling it now, the part where I'm too old for this sort of thing. Oh, I remember what it was like to be a teenager. I was involved in a very tempestuous relationship at the time, and I felt all the things Isla feels here, but now I see it for what it was: melodramatic wangst. My reasons for disliking this book are numerous, but the never-ending, self-indulgent, relentless wangst of the whole book was by far the most painful part.
In this book, two privileged teenagers mope and fret and fall into a deep depression because they can't have what they want: each other. And why can't they have each other? Why, because of reasons, of course! Reasons, reasons, and more horribly contrived reasons. I'll break it down: none of it makes sense. They aren't together because the story demands that they feel all kinds of torment during a good stretch when, really, all they needed to do was talk to one another and straighten everything out. It could have been over in the matter of an hour, but then the book wouldn't have that long stretch of mopey misunderstanding, would it?
The thing is, I might have cared about all this moping had I cared about the characters, but I didn't. Not one bit. I absolutely adore the previous two novels in this series, which are admittedly just as melodramatic at times. But the characters in those books felt like real, three-dimensional characters with thoughts, feelings, and dreams. By contrast, Isla is THE most annoying female YA character since Bella Swan. She has no personality of her own, no dreams, no drive, no desire. As she dramatically tells us, she is a blank slate. You know what? Blank slates might be full of promise for artists, but for the rest of us they're just boring because they're blank. All we know about Isla by the end of the book is that she reads comics, like adventure novels, has two sisters, and is utterly obsessed with Josh--and, like Bella's, hers is not a healthy obsession. She cyberstalks the guy and moons over him for three years before they start dating. She tells him she's loved him for all those years. What? She doesn't even know him, so how can she possibly love him? What she has is an unhealthy fixation on him, which is made all the more evident by the downward spiral her life takes when he leaves after they've been dating for a grand total of one month. One month, and she's basically ready to chuck her entire life away, but I guess that's a symptom of her nauseating privilege too. She can afford to throw her life away because her parents have all kinds of money, so she'll be fine. Cry me a river. Can I read about a character with real problems now?
Josh is no better. He's an artist. He resents his parents, especially during his father's run for Senator, because they don't pay enough attention to him. Snore. In many ways, he's very similar to St. Clair, but the difference is that St. Clair felt like a real person while Josh felt like a cardboard representation of one. And don't even get me started on his giving Isla his manuscript to read. Huge spoiler alert here: there are panels of his naked ex-girlfriend in them, and panels of him having sex with said girlfriend. And he wonders why Isla is upset. Since she's also been sexually active in the past, I found her reaction a bit hypocritical, but she definitely shouldn't have been exposed to something like that. Who in their right mind would think showing their new girlfriend something like that would be a good idea? I get that it's his opus and all that, but doesn't it occur to him that maybe he ought not to show her graphic depictions of what he's done with his ex, especially since he knows she's crazy jealous of his ex? It's so messed up I don't even know where to begin with it. Then he has the audacity to be angry with her when she offers some constructive criticism? True, her timing sucks, but it should hardly have come as surprise to him that she wouldn't be head over heels for it.
Worse yet, their relationship is all kinds of unhealthy. The minute they start dating, neither of them cares about anything else anymore. They engage in all sorts of reckless behavior that results in his getting booted from their spoiled kid prep school, and they have the nerve to be angry with her sister and with Kurt. What? Sure, later in the book Isla comes to the realization that, guess what, she and Josh are responsible for what's happened, but I vehemently disliked her when her illicit trip to Spain with Josh was first discovered. Even when she has him, Isla can't do anything more than obsess about Josh. She combs the Internet looking for more detail on him, she stops caring about her grades, and she can't be bothered to figure out on her own where she should go to college. Again, these are horrible, privilege-soaked problems. She all but throws away her entire future for a boy she's dated for four whole weeks.
I hate that message. I hate that these books, in many ways, promote the idea that young love like this is the be all and end all. It's not healthy. I know it feels that way at the time--I really, really remember how viscerally I felt it when I was seventeen--but that doesn't make the way it's portrayed here right. Now that I think about it, in every book in this series, the couples end up building their whole future around one another. Instead of pursuing the things they want in the best places to pursue them, they make compromises. Yes, compromises are necessary in love, but NOT when it's your whole future you're talking about. And while it's sweet that St. Clair and Anna get engaged in a significant spot in Paris, they are NINETEEN. Nineteen. No. I'm tired of YA authors equating young love with destiny. I know this is hardly a new thing, but that makes it even worse. Shouldn't we be more enlightened by this point? Shouldn't we be emphasizing to young people that, while their relationships are important, so are their futures? Shouldn't we encourage them to explore, to set goals to try to get all they want out of life? Shouldn't we tell them that if the love is real, it will wait until those important goals are met? Instead, books like this gloss over the fact that permanently altering the course of your life for someone will have lifelong consequences and may lead to lifelong regrets.
I'm sure by now it's obvious how vehemently I dislike this book. I'm sorry that I read it. It's left a bad taste in my mouth for the entire series. I keep returning to a blurb from another YA author, Tahereh Mafi, who calls Perkins the "Jane Austen of our generation". Are you for serious? You must not be reading the same Austen novels I've read, because in those books Austen's heroines are firmly and always true to themselves. They make mistakes, they act badly, but never do they compromise their own hopes, dreams, and beliefs. Elizabeth Bennet would shudder at the thought of being compared to a character like Isla because, unlike Isla, Elizabeth knows that believing in her own convictions, in staying true to her own character, is the most important thing a person can do. I think I need to go read Jane Eyre to purge myself of this book.
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