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What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera
3.0

Readability: 4/5
Plot: 3/5
Recommend: No

One New York City summer, a post office, and two boys. After a charming meet cute at the post office, Ben and Arthur find themselves thinking about each other. Only problem is, they don't know much about each other or how to get in contact with the other. As a desperate attempt reunites them, can they survive life after the meet cute?

This was a long book, and I didn't think it needed to be this long. It was really drawn out, and even though it needed to be this way for the ending to play out as it did, it was still too long.

I also didn't particularly like the writing style. There was a lot of describing of everyday tasks and actions that made it boring. I had to skim some of the paragraphs due to this. I also personally didn't enjoy the fan culture in this, like the Hamilton, Sims, or Wattpad/fan-fiction stuff.

I did like the end.
The fact that they didn't end up together was actually really nice. I liked how they just became really great friends. It made this story feel a lot more realistic and grounded.