A review by kori_krc
Here's to Us by Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera

5.0

It's a rarity for me, but I think this one was better than the first. I finally got the older version of Arthur and Ben that I was looking for in the first book. The beginning took a little while to set up and get through, I think mostly because it fell victim to the 2nd book syndrome of feeling like they need to explain literally every little thing that happened in the first book through the characters remembering it rather than trusting the reader to have read the first book. However, if you want to read this book without reading the first one, I guess you can do that with the way they spoon fed you the entirety of the first book. After you get through that frustrating 1/4 of the book, it really starts to ramp up. There's SO MUCH tension and awkwardness that I could feel it. I just wanted to many times to shake them (again) and scream at them to just TALK ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS YOU EMOTIONALLY CONSTIPATED GREMLINS! The ending was so perfect though. The epilogue did scare me in the first couple of lines but quickly turned into me screaming at how cute it was and busting all of the uwus. Read this book. Love this book.