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A Review by ………………….(11190……………….) of 1A English Education Department
Title of the review
A Lesson to Deal with A Teenager’s Life

Opening sentences, Being a teenage sometimes can be complicated and can ruin our life. As told by
information of the Jenny Han in one of her novels “To All The Boys I have Loved Before”, a young adult
novel; title, writer
publisher, year, page, romance novel published by Simon & Schuster. The novel released on April 15 th, 2014,
etc. with 198 pages.
The characters are Lara Jean, her older sister Margot, her younger sister Kitty,
A summary of the
characters and the Peter, Josh, Genevieve. The novel tells about a teenage named Lara Jean. She always
story in the novel writes a secret letter if she loves someone. However, the letter is just for her, not to
from the beginning send to the boy that she loved. She already has five letters. 4 boys she loved in the
till the end (Full past, and the fifth boy is Josh, Margot’s boyfriend. When Margot moved to Scotland
story). for college, Lara Jean’s life is changed. Margot breaks up with Josh that the relationship
between them becomes awkward. Moreover, suddenly, all the secret letters are sent
out to her previous loves. She does not know how it can happen. Moreover, all the
boys that she loved before suddenly come to her life to question what Lara Jean wrote
in her letter. Including Josh. Lara Jean does not want Margot to know about her feeling
to her sister’s ex-boyfriend. So she started to pretend to date with Peter, her first love
who accept the letter too, for saving themselves. Lara jean to cover up and distract her
feelings to Josh, and Peter to cover up his feelings from his ex-girlfriend, Genevieve. At
first, everything running smoothly, but it comes to be worst after Lara Jean realize that
she falls in love with Peter (again). Furthermore, Lara Jean does not know that Peter
falls in love with her too. Genevieve, who is the jealous one about their relationship,
want to destroy Lara Jean’s life with shared a video about them and spread the issue.
Moreover, when Margot come home for Christmas, she knows about everything that
happened when she is not around. She got mad and disappointed to Lara Jean at first,
but because she loves her sister, she was trying to forget about that and started to help
Lara Jean in facing her problems one by one.

The weaknesses (you

I like how Jenny Han chooses a word to make that simple, and the readers can
don’t like) and understand easily. I love the story too because it can relate to our life, and the story is
strengths (you like) of not boring, like usually romance novels. However, I did not feel satisfied with the
the novel and tell ending of the novel, because there are still many things that are not answered in the
about moral or social novel, so I am still curious about many things. The lesson that I get in this novel is that
values you get by
giving supporting
we cannot run away from problems, because we have to face up the problems bravely
evidence; and take a lesson from that. And then try to come out from comfort zones that block
sample..…(Page 95, you to develop yourself. The last is it is ok, to tell the truth because sometimes it can
Chapter 3) be good for you to express your feeling to someone. “…but I suppose in matters of the
heart, there’s no predicting how a person will or will not behave.” (Page 95, Chapter 3)

Recommendation: This is I recommend this novel to romance novel lovers because the story is different
likely only a sentence or from usually romance novels, and you will not get bored at all. Many unexpected things
two. Should readers pick
up this book? Why or happened. Moreover, you can take many lessons from this novel.
why not? If you do not
recommend the novel,
you can let readers know
a better choice if you
wish.