Anything by Jennifer E Smith. What Happy Looks Like is a good starting point.

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins is another good one.

I hope she does get a bit more involved in XO Kitty and that that runs for a few more seasons with her full focus. It has the potential for a Netflix film as well. I feel like that show has a lot of potential. And could be even better with more time and investment. I prefer it to TATBILB by quite a stretch even though it has no book source material but exists in the same universe.

It’s tricky for Jenny and what she does next as two huge franchises with beloved characters are ending for her and it’s likely XO Kitty has one or two more seasons maximum. I expect she might need to go in a new direction. So as you suggest maybe she’ll leave YA behind and try something darker/more complex. It’s hard though as she has nailed that demographic and audience and will have people eagerly awaiting her next, which is almost guaranteed success or at least interest and a ready-made audience.

That comes with drawbacks too though as she gets held to her books a lot and because the relationship/character ‘wars’ in her fandoms can get quite intense, I feel it sort of limits her creative freedoms as people can have specific and high expectations. So I think she should try something different.

I wonder if she sticks with TV and film and doesn’t return to writing novels for a while. I’m similar to you in that I have browsed the books and don’t connect with them but love the shows and the characters she creates.

I may have imagined this but I thought I read that Jenny Han was writing a new book that wasn’t YA.

I’d love a Laurel / Susannah prequel

I'm sure I'm not the only one who watched "We were liars" while waiting for TSITP. Since that's going to get a prequel about the moms, they could do another parallel with TSITP. Though I'm not sure if a TSITP prequel would be set at the summer house or rather at college.

I just want my kitty and Minho endgame. Bonrad is confirmed. 😭

Aw I love that the summer I turned pretty is narrated by the actress from the show

If I already have it in my library will I get to keep it?

I’m confused I had it in my library and it vanished. I tried to buy it again and it says it’s not available.

Added .Thank you !!!

alice oseman, and rick riordan! 

Rick Riordan , Holly Jackson, Freida McFadden (im not sure that’s how it’s spelled but yeah) , my best friend

Rick Riordan most definitely

Holly Jackson!

Suzanne Collin’s because of her Hunger Games series, Rick(it said d!ck before due to autocorrect so sorry about that, I fixed it) Riordon because of the Percy Jackson series(+its sequel series), and Alice Oseman because of her Heartstopper series(+Radio silence and Loveless, two of her single books not from a series) 

I’m definitely getting to all the boys, it was the series that got me back into reading years ago. Is it good? Not really. But I do enjoy it

I think they both have their appeal. #1 looks like it'll be cooler but #2 is giving me Sailor Moon vibes. As for the books I hear similar feedback on both I also only watched the shows. I think I prefer To All The Boys I Loved Before, buuuut The Summer I Turned Pretty seems like it's more suited for adult audiences.

to all the boys was literally one of the cringiest and worst book series i’ve ever read. i loved it

I also read the books after watching the show/movie, but they were both very mid and not worth $100 for a fancy version. I suppose TAtBILB is better writing but I would strongly recommend reading them first before investing in something so pricey.

i love the books for to all the boys i’ve loved before, and i love the show for the summer i turned pretty. the movies for tatbilb were good but not as good as the books, and while i enjoyed the books for tsitp i didn’t like it as much as the show (probably bc i was a little older when i read tsitp whereas tatbilb i was a little younger). overall they’re not bad and i would buy these sets if i loved the books slightly more but the designs are beautiful

Amy Tan, Maxine Kingston-Hong, Celeste Ng, etc, et al got some serious competition to distort and pervert the culture and sexuality for WMs even some more now...

Plain and simple, she is one of those self-hating Asian women who want to spread their agenda, there isn't much beyond that.

Nothing against her? You sure you’re in the right subreddit?

Another easy boycott.

yeah, she loves af/wm pairing, does she have a white partner? LOL please let me know if you find any asianxasian love stories!! sex and vanity by kevin kwan has a wasian female x asian male story which is cute af too

I think its more so that TSITP series is Jenny’s first book series and she went into the books not really knowing how to end it, so its kinda messy and sloppy. That being said, I don’t think she is a terrible writer and she has improved significantly, which is great and normal! Not everyone is gonna throw out a hit when its their first time, you can look at reviews from when the book series first dropped and many people were upset about book 3. Its a stretch to say Jenny is a bad writer but there is criticism that is due for that particular series.

Either way, I think everyone agrees that all her TV adaptations are works of art. It allows her to bring her stories to life and improve upon things, realizing what should’ve changed looking back at what she wrote. Its beautiful, its growth. I definitely understand where others are coming from. I see your perspective as well. Thank you for sharing.

Good criticism = you agree with it / bad criticism = you don’t

Book 3 is trash I’m sorry. It’s rushed. It makes no sense the plot is contrived. It’s just not very good regardless of the endgame. She improved a lot in her second series though

tbh i just don’t think the books are very good 🤷🏼‍♀️ there’s basically no plot in the first two, the plot of the third borders on absurdity, and they just aren’t very descriptive so it’s hard to get into the scenes and the characters. the writing style is super basic and disjointed. cari can read did a video reading them and explains it better but i just didn’t really like them (i read the books after starting the show).

tatbilb is better so i think she improved as a writer over time but i just don’t think the tsitp books are that great. at the end of the day being successful doesn’t mean you’re a good author (colleen hoover is a prime example LOL).

I think Jenny is an incredible TV author. I don’t like her book writing as much but she’s clearly doing something right and I think her stories make for great TV

No, she hasn't

It depends what you mean by changing.

The third To All the Boys movie has basically nothing to do with the third novel, almost nothing about the plots are related to each other except they have college anxiety.

BUT the HEA is the same