A review by afoolishfigment
What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera

4.0

On my second venture into this book, prior to reading the sequel I came to enjoy some of the characters and story more. While Arthur is, and will always be an insufferable naive teenager. The way he's written truly encompasses that small town theater boy, who's never been to NYC.And while it's extremely hard to feel for him at times when he makes it seem he lives or dies by the Hamilton ticket lottery, he is surrounded (for the most part) by likeable characters. To Arthur's nativity there's "Summer School Ben", who's grown up in the city and though has a bit more angst in him doesn't have his head too far up in the clouds. Overall, this story is cute and has a very different ending then you may expect. Though for younger readers, it may be a story you need to hear about love, and some of its challenges.