P.S. I Still Love You

Romance

First published: 2015
Print length: 352 pagesSimon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2017

Description

Lara Jean has realized that her feelings for Peter are genuine, and she wants the relationship they once pretended to have to become real. Their fragile beginning is soon strained when an intimate video circulates at school, exposing Lara Jean to malicious rumors and sharpening her jealousy over Peter’s lingering connection to Genevieve. A job at a retirement home brings her the companionship of spirited Stormy and a stream of conflicting romantic advice. Then John Ambrose McClaren answers one of Lara Jean’s old letters, reopening a childhood connection and introducing another possible future. This young-adult sequel follows Lara Jean as she discovers that choosing someone is not the same as trusting them—or knowing what love should require.

Reading profile

About this profile

Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).

Writing: How much attention the sentences and language require.
Ideas: How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
Structure: How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
Background knowledge: Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
Emotional intensity: Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.

Writing style

Conversational · Direct · Witty

Pace

Moderate

Tone

Playful · Reflective · Romantic · Warm

Structure

Linear

Focus

Character · Relationships

Emotional intensity

3 / 5

Reading complexity

1–5 · higher means more demanding

Writing: 2 / 5
Ideas: 2 / 5
Structure: 2 / 5
Background knowledge: 2 / 5

Themes

BelongingFriendshipIdentityLoveSexuality

About Jenny Han

Jenny Han writes young-adult and children’s fiction, and her career also extends to screenwriting, production, and television. Her novels concentrate on the social and emotional negotiations of adolescence, especially where romance intersects with family loyalty, grief, jealousy, and changing expectations. She works in direct, conversational prose, often using brisk dialogue and comic embarrassment to bring private feelings into public view. Her plots tend to grow from simple devices or recurring settings, then accumulate complications as characters discover that affection does not settle questions of trust or commitment. In The Summer I Turned Pretty, annual visits to a shared beach house give the story a seasonal rhythm, while illness and shifting relationships disturb its familiar rituals. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before turns Lara Jean’s secret letters and a staged romance into a structure for exposing the gap between imagined and lived intimacy. Han later adapted the Summer trilogy for television, while the Lara Jean books became a film series.