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If We Were Us by K.L. Walther

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emotional lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

theres nothing Egregiously wrong with this book, but like so many ya romance books i feel as though its just...kinda needlessly sterilized, yknow??? idk how else to put it and maybe that just means that books like this arent up my alley but...idk. i feel like this book could have been more realistic and have more stakes to it but it didnt :/ which i Guess is fine but it just makes things boring and predictable.

also...the conflicts were paced very weird. like
nick & sages breakup and then rekindling
takes up a literal half of the book, where
charlie & lukes breakup
happens within the last few chapters and their 'problem' (i struggle to call it a problem bc
its related to coming out to charlies family
, which is nothing little imo) is resolved in a matter of pages. the entire flow of the conflict is off; i think it would have been better if the breakups occurred at the same time and took the same time to resolve, bc it really made it seem like luke & charlies problems were secondary to sage & nick, when sage & charlie are equal protagonists in the book. also, i think charlies coming out is a much bigger issue to overcome than sages problem and the way it was resolved so fast feels a little off, yknow??

idk...maybe im just looking too much into a book that isnt more than surface deep :/
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