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wren_in_black 's review for:
What If It's Us
by Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera
Actual rating: 3.5 stars.
I loved the first half of this book, coasted through the last half and am not really sure what I think about the ending. I can appreciate what the authors tried to do there, and I don't dislike it. It wasn't a bad ending. It just wasn't what I needed out of this book. It felt like a lot of investment. I'm not sure if the book needed to lose the last couple of pages or have a couple of pages tacked on. That's what it felt like; 99% complete instead of 100%.
Ending aside, the characters are cute. I wasn't as into them as I was in They Both Die at the End or Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda. It felt like there wasn't enough time spent on the characters, even though this book is longer than the books I've just mentioned by both coauthors. I could definitely get a sense of the authors' personalities behind their respective characters at least.
I'd love to see more from this collaboration of authors in the future. Writing a book with another person must be more difficult than writing one alone. Both of these authors are automatic reads for me and will continue to be so.
I loved the first half of this book, coasted through the last half and am not really sure what I think about the ending. I can appreciate what the authors tried to do there, and I don't dislike it. It wasn't a bad ending. It just wasn't what I needed out of this book. It felt like a lot of investment. I'm not sure if the book needed to lose the last couple of pages or have a couple of pages tacked on. That's what it felt like; 99% complete instead of 100%.
Ending aside, the characters are cute. I wasn't as into them as I was in They Both Die at the End or Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda. It felt like there wasn't enough time spent on the characters, even though this book is longer than the books I've just mentioned by both coauthors. I could definitely get a sense of the authors' personalities behind their respective characters at least.
I'd love to see more from this collaboration of authors in the future. Writing a book with another person must be more difficult than writing one alone. Both of these authors are automatic reads for me and will continue to be so.