Maybe I can't be objective as a dutchie, but this was so bad. Literally all the things that were supposed to be 'very dutch' aren't true. People is The Netherlands and especially in Amsterdam or Utrecht don't look like twins or triplets or whatever. A cheese sandwich is absolutely not weird for breakfast here (it is actually quite a typical breakfast) and we don't know everything about canals just because we have them. I think most people don't know shit about canals. We also dont speak Danish because it 'looks like Dutch' (it doesn't). Gayle Forman probably messed that up with German, but then still it's not true. We might kind of know what the Germans are talking about, but it's not that similar that we can just flex out some German any given moment. The only thing she got right is that a lot of dutch people speak pretty good English. I listened to the audiobook and that made the experience even worse since the wannabe Dutch accent was trash. I read somewhere that Gayle's brother helped her with the dutch stuff since he is dutch/lives here or something. Obviously something went very wrong here and some things could have even been fixed with a quick google translate. I could go on naming examples but I think I made my point.

But that's not even the main reason for giving it two stars. I think this story wasn't cute at all. Alison is even worse than a damsel in distress. She goes to Paris to find the guy she spend one day with even though she was thinking he left her after he got what he wanted (sex). If someone in real life would actually do this everyone would say it was pathethic as hell. She just stops living because of this guy she doesn't even really know. How is this cute? She is supposed to have grown at the end but to me she's still an idiot. Everytime she showed some courage it was because the story needed it for plot and not because it fitted the character. One page she was scared, then all of a sudden she found some balls, but then she would just lose them again. Also, at the end she was thinking this guy was a player but she needed to see him to say thank you? No. That's stupid, not cute.

I could keep ranting but I think it's obvious I think this book was bad. Alison needs to get her priorities straight. However, the side characters were lovely and I really like the travel aspect. Because of that I added one star.