I like good guys who work hard, support their heroines, and don’t expect shortcuts, and I was not charmed by Josh pulling Isla into his world of misbehavior and bad choices. Josh, by contrast, is all superlatives and personality: he’s a brilliant artist focused on graphic novels he’s a bad-boy with a tattoo he fakes his observance of Jewish holidays to cut class and is constantly skating on the edge of expulsion, and of course his test scores are even better than Isla’s, because all boys with bad grades could ace calculus if they really wanted to. Isla herself realizes this, wishing she had a driving passion to guide her into her college and career future, but you can be an interesting character even if you haven’t found your life’s calling. Isla is bland – a shy girl who we’re told is exceptionally bright, but who doesn’t have any strong interests or characteristics to bring her to life for the reader. While I adored Anna and found Lola engaging, Isla doesn’t quite live up to them. Isla and the Happily Ever After is the sequel to the DIK Anna and the French Kiss and also Lola and the Boy Next Door, though you don’t have to have read the other books first. Suddenly it’s senior year, and these bicultural New Yorker/Parisians have started to figure things out – but maybe too late. Isla Martin has been in love with Joshua Wasserstein since she first saw him in ninth grade, but between Isla’s shyness and Josh’s misunderstanding of her relationship with her best friend Kurt, the two never managed to get on the same page.
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