What If It's Us

Three stars is me being generous because of my love for Becky Albertalli and several of the side characters in this book. Plus a good amount of diversity! And musical references! And...that's really all the positive things I have to say. I'm probably going to take away another half star.

To be honest, I expected WAY better from this matchup. It dragged something awful, and I'm sorry but Ben and Arthur had the chemistry of like...two blades of grass. Plus the whole book was this really weird tug-of-war between realistic, down-to-earth elements and being so cliched and predictable that I physically cringed. (And no, that was not a shot at either of the authors because they both did both at different times.)

To be honest, the time I was most into this book was the 20 minutes in the middle when I thought this was all a big Gotcha and they were both going to have different love interests.

Plus there was one point when something happened and Ben worried Arthur was going to break up with him, and let me just say, if I was in Arthur's shoes? I couldn't have dumped him because by the time it would have occurred to me as an option, I would have already murdered him, brought him back to life, and murdered him again. :)

Yeah, I'm taking away that half star now.

*2.5