Hello and happy Monday. It’s the last day of my vacation and I am using it to tell you about Here’s to Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera. If anything about this sounds familiar, it’s because this is the sequel to What If It’s Us, by the same author duo.

Now, would I have been content had Ben’s and Arthur’s story ended like it did in the first installment? Yes. It was realistic yet sort of hopeful. Did my dellusional heart stop when I found out there was a sequel and it was on Kindle Unlimited? Indeed. It took me a little longer to read Here’s to Us because my KU subscription ended, so the titles that I’d borrowed were returned, including this one. I then re-subscribed and got this book back, so we can say that I “missed” a week or two of reading.

I’m going to go ahead and say that this didn’t make me feel what the original novel did, but I was sort of prepared for that already. It’s not that it was super angsty because I live and die for the angst. It also wasn’t a matter of the characters being older and the subject matter more mature because I’m almost 31 years old. It was more like…I’d already been super giddy about Ben and Arthur and their romance in New York during that one summer and I wasn’t going to experience that again. So, I guess if you come to this book with that in mind, you’ll know just what to expect. Was it amazingly written? Totally. Is Adam Silvera one of my favorite authors? You bet. Do I think that Becky Albertalli’s writing style has improved significantly since Simon Versus the Homo Sapiens Agenda? I do.