Sooooo Netflix Changed a LOT About To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You

In the beginning of To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, Peter and Lara Jean are very much together, and Lara Jean is preparing for their first date. However, in the book, the two start off on the outs and haven't yet made their relationship official.

Peter and Lara Jean's first date in the movie includes them making wishes on lanterns before they let them free in the sky. At the end of the movie, Lara Jean talks about her wishes and how this is the beginning of her story with Peter. In the book, however, there's no lantern scene, but there are still wishes. Instead, the entire second half of the book involves the group of teens playing a game of Assassins, in which the winner is granted a wish of their choice. Lara Jean wins and in the heat of her anger at Peter, she wishes they could go back to the way things were before they got together. In the end, though, she tells him she wishes for things to stay happy with them.

Netflix made a ton of changes to John Ambrose McClaren for the movie. For one, he's described in the book as being blond, which is assumedly why a different actor played him in the first movie. He also doesn't volunteer at Belleview with Lara Jean in the book. He's actually Stormy's grandson who comes to visit her while Lara Jean is volunteering.

So he and LJ hadn't been building up their rekindled friendship while volunteering, but actually through letters. In the movie, John Ambrose wrote her back and she stopped the written communication there. In the book, they continued to be pen pals.

In the book versions of the first and second story, the hot tub video doesn't get posted until the second novel. It's also a much more dramatic part of the story, in which Peter threatens people with his lawyer and with physical violence (it was Margot in the movie), and the video debacle lasts for quite awhile. It's even played during a school assembly and eventually Dr. Covey is contacted by the school about it.

In the books, Chris and Trevor never had their little flirtation like they have in the movie. They're part of this same group in the book, but that's the extent of their relationship.

Lara Jean and John Ambrose's friendship-turned-fliration grew a lot more steadily and intensely in the book. They wrote letters, they worked together in the Assassins game, and they put on the USO party (not the Star Ball) at Belleview. John Ambrose was a lot more open about his feelings in the book, but was ever the gentleman.

The two shared a kiss in John Ambrose's car rather than at the Belleview party in the book. And unlike the movie, Lara Jean didn't have an immediate epiphany that she wanted to get back together with Peter. Instead, she and John Ambrose stayed close until later when she made her choice.

If you remember in the first movie, there's a flashback scene where LJ and Peter kissed playing Spin the Bottle when they were younger, and that's seemingly why Gen hates her. She obviously hates her more when Peter chooses her. In the second book, though, there was no Spin the Bottle Kiss between LJ and Peter. (There was between LJ and John Ambrose, though!) Actually Peter kissed Lara Jean when they were younger and Gen saw them but never said anything. Ever since then she's hated Lara Jean for it.