Reviews

The Art of Us by KL Hughes

slvt4darkromaces's review against another edition

4.0

i have absolutely no words to describe how exactly i am feeling right this moment.

i finished this amazing book so fast and i cant even wrap my head around how freaking incredible it was. literally everything about this book was perfect and i am completely in love with charlee and alex they are the best ever.

i loved this book so very much i wish i could just wrap it around me like a big fluffy fuzzy blanket.

the found family in this is the best and i cried over this book one too many times but i enjoyed every second of it.

also, this book is a freaking gracie abrams song and no one can tell me otherwise.

brencoombs's review against another edition

5.0

Beautiful imagery, well developed main and secondary characters, and realistic dialogue.

rudduo's review against another edition

2.0

idk dude this was kinda predictable, just another romance and maybe i wasn’t in the mood so it wasn’t that awesome

annaavian's review against another edition

2.0

This was an exhausting read. The writing was beautiful, descriptive and emotional but the amount of unnecessary drama and sobbing were way too much for my taste. The constant jumping between past and present was also confusing at times.
And I just couldn't stop thinking, was all that torture really necessary? Why are these two adult women behaving like teenagers and just couldn't sit and talk to one another? Communicate, people, it's not really that hard!
Hell, if the love of my life is moving across the country I'd just quit my job and move with her instead of feeling like someone is cutting my heart open every single day. And it wouldn't even cross my mind to date anybody else until I know for certain we've exhausted all possibilities of being together and salvaging our relationship. But I guess that's just me.

laconni4's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Love the angst. 

spaghettoni's review against another edition

2.0

i love ignoring my uni reading by focusing on bad queer love stories instead

snowangel526's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

The narrator is 5/5, she's a fantastic narrator, that's how I bumped up the score for this book slightly.
I realized I deeply dislike the cheating in this book. No they did not cheat physically (almost), but they cheated emotionally 100%. The moment they saw each other again their significant others are now just placeholder for the other person. They were both emotionally unstable individuals who roped perfectly good people into a relationship they weren't ready for, knowing they'll never be able to give that part of themselves to their significant others.
I was positively boiling having to hear more and more of this nonsense how achingly beautiful this love is while their significant others just melted away in their mind. 
Granted I felt immensely satisfied when the bff of Charlie called her the fuck out and the sister of Alex did the same. I'm sure the author know they're very flawed in this aspect and people make mistakes, you can only focus on making things better. The problem is I don't find their love believable at all. All I see are flowery descriptions of their love, but nothing concrete on how they're so wildly in love. 

Another wtf moment for me is when Cam, the bff of Charlie for years, who was struggling financially to buy a new prosthetic leg for awhile (yay America) to the point of experiencing pain, she never got any support from Charlie to help buy a new leg until the very end when Charlie woke up after getting chewed out by her for being so wrapped up in her problem for years. Mind you Charlie makes 10k for 1 fucking painting and her mother is a doctor.

gracerichards11's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

kn1231's review against another edition

4.0

Really enjoyed this story. The angst and longing really captured you into the story. Really enjoyed both of the leads, and it was easy to root for them to find their way back to each other. My one complaint: I listened to the audiobook version, and I wish the switches from present to flashbacks was highlighted. I’m not sure how it’s done in the book copy, but I did catch myself wondering what part of the character’s story I was in due to there being no mention of a switch. But this has nothing to do with the author I suppose, and I am definitely going to revisit this story in a few months for another listen.

catbartram89's review against another edition

5.0

This book is heartbreaking to but absolutely adorable at the same time I loved the back and forth with past and present.  In the past Charlee and Alex are together but also going though a break up, and in the present Charlee is in a relationship with a man and Alex is in a relationship with another Woman, there first meet following the break up some 5 years ago, is awkward and heartbreaking