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A review by readingcavern
What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera
4.0
Rating this was very difficult; I finished it in under 12 hours (the quickest I’ve ever finished a novel), however didn’t immediately feel like it deserved five stars…
The time in which I finish a book has always been a huge (the main) indicator of what I should rate it - seeing as I never know what to base my rating on and how to separate between a 4 and a 5 for instance - and I’ve always been like “if I finish it in under 48 hours it’s a definite five star”. With this one though… not so sure.
It was a good book, extremely well written (like what do you expect when it’s a collab between two incredible authors?!) and the plot was intriguing, but I just feel like it lacked something - like it didn’t spark that same reaction and certainly most of my five star reads have.
I guess that since I’m questioning whether it should receive five stars or not so much in the first place, it probably doesn’t deserve so and I ended up giving it four stars. A good book with an intriguing plot and (very) good writing, it just didn’t do “it” for me in a way.
Gosh, rating books is so much more complicated than it should be… or maybe it’s just me making it more complicated than it has to, either way, although I didn’t give it five stars, I’m still intrigued enough to immediately pick up the sequel - like right after I finish writing this :)
(ps! I’m heavily (!!) rooting for these two, so if they don’t end up together, Albertalli and Silvera can expect an angry email or two… or at least an angry review
The time in which I finish a book has always been a huge (the main) indicator of what I should rate it - seeing as I never know what to base my rating on and how to separate between a 4 and a 5 for instance - and I’ve always been like “if I finish it in under 48 hours it’s a definite five star”. With this one though… not so sure.
It was a good book, extremely well written (like what do you expect when it’s a collab between two incredible authors?!) and the plot was intriguing, but I just feel like it lacked something - like it didn’t spark that same reaction and certainly most of my five star reads have.
I guess that since I’m questioning whether it should receive five stars or not so much in the first place, it probably doesn’t deserve so and I ended up giving it four stars. A good book with an intriguing plot and (very) good writing, it just didn’t do “it” for me in a way.
Gosh, rating books is so much more complicated than it should be… or maybe it’s just me making it more complicated than it has to, either way, although I didn’t give it five stars, I’m still intrigued enough to immediately pick up the sequel - like right after I finish writing this :)
(ps! I’m heavily (!!) rooting for these two, so if they don’t end up together, Albertalli and Silvera can expect an angry email or two… or at least an angry review