WHAT IF IT'S US | Book Review & Discussion
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera is finally out in the world! I love this book so much and am so excited to discuss.
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I hated the ending with a passion. The book is definitely my favorite book of all time but the ending left me in shambles. I CRIED SO HARD! I like that they left the book as a choice for the reader as to if they get together or not. I definitely believe they will!!!
If u dont read the ending it'll be like it never happened~~ *cri*
Im with you. The only way I coped with the end was to convince myself they will get back together and live happily ever after :)
Cotton Nectar Same. I cried so hard. I want them together so bad.
Well there's a BIG possibility that they ended up together because you can see that they have feelings for each other, plus they still have communication
I WAS SO UPSET.
I love their moments on the Broadway Curb when Ben missed the raffle from Hamilton and he reached out to Arthur with headphones and played their favorite broadway tracks that was so sweet and epic.
Yeah but I felt more anger. I felt that Arthur was just so easy to just be like 'ah well, It's only my biggest dream going into dust, just because Ben is late AGAIN'
I hated how he didn’t explain why he was late.
So i read the book just yesterday and finished, and my question is WHY THE FRICK IS BEN ALWAYS LATE? Was he secretly cheating on Aurthur? Well we'll never know. Anyone think they have a good reason that BEN was always late
@@legionair3 Ben is late to everything based on what’s important to him. He was slow with Art at the beginning because he hadn’t mentally moved on from Hudson. He was bad and late in school because he didn’t know what he wanted in life. But by the end of the book you see what’s important to Ben by how fast he suddenly moves. He bolts out running to the hospital to see Dylan and then he wakes up super early to organize Art’s scavenger hunt. And in the Epilogue he says he’s mostly on time for his new creative writing classes. (I just finished the book for the first time last weekend! Loved it!!)
This book is perfect, as a young, hopeless-daydreamer I fell head over heels with this book! Great job Becky and Adam!👍🏼
Pleeeeeease go get yourself the audiobook, Noah Galvin as Arthur and Froy Gutiérrez as Ben is just the perfect touch of personality these characters bring to the table!!
Such an amazing book!! Agree 100% with you.
OMG I listen to it on RUclips and I just wanted to know what is was about and noah galvin was in and I had to replay it to make sure I heard it right and I know ben was in teen wolf season 6
The audiobook was the best thing! Loved it!!
[SPOILER WARNING]
This is probably the most real YA novel I've ever read. The real life stakes this book throws at us is hurts so much more because they are real. The worst part is that it all makes sense. There's no other way around it but that way. This is why I'm so hung up on this story. It gives us an ending but a very unsatisfying one at that. Not unsatisfying that no lose ends were left but unsatisfying in the way life gets you. It wasn't absolute. Their love was the only thing constant in the end but all the other stuff are not. I hope they give us some extra content soon where their relationship is given another chance. Most likely, Arthur will be the one to fall out of it tbh... I'm already crying just thinking about a reunion between the two.
The book was really amazing! Except for that epilogue that fricking they did. It wasn't even subtle when they kicked us with reality. The epilogue really killed the buzz for me. Its like Becky and Adam spat on both Arthur and Ben's face, ESPECIALLY Ben and they're still happy. I hate it and I'm crying with you
I already read What if Its Us , I was so good like some typical relationships and also friendships. Can I asked anyone of you, please explain the epilouge part. Im kinda confuse like .. are they still together or what? D^: oh gooooddddd
@@gamingaccount9108 sadly they're not
I cried honestly a lot. It was literally the best book I have ever read. It was like a slice of life rom com and fluffy angst and I'm just sjirjdvdjwjwbd
Im 100% with you about the ending!! x
Can really really relate to how impulsive they can get, with their personalities intact in the relationship, specifically in the initial part of it. And also, Dylan. I need one n o w
“I read this entire book in four days”
Me: I seriously read the whole thing in 12 hours max (no offence lol)
lolllll fair fair, I'm a pretty slow reader in general so that is unheard of for me
I read this book in couple hours, during school and whatnot, and my teachers had to keep asking me if I was ok cause I kept crying lol
Took me 8 hours wassup
6 hours to read the entire thing 🤷🏼♂️ But I'm generally a quick reader
Took me 2 days with 7hour reading and i thought i was slow wtf😆
I bought the book and finished it before I went to sleep that night.
I loved it lol
it was so good i cried
the jeffree star tea shirt YAS
OMG YES THE ENDING. IT'S PERFECT honestly. I love your review gosh I was just so giddy because it reminded me of all the feels I felt reading What If It's Us. Legit screamed "YAAAAAAAS!"
Bianca Montierro thank you!! I’m so glad you loved it too
The ending is so far from perfect!
I do not accept this sadness! I demand a good ending!!
@@omersharon7847 apparently theres a 2021 sequal
@@chemicalyjake455 damn, it will probably be even longer until the audiobook (and they better have a happy ending this time!)
I'm so glad you liked this. So many people were hating on it, I didn't understand why
Your Review is life , I swear. I finished the book yesterday and god , this book was a way too dangerous for my little heart , all the cuteness , I just couldn’t take it ❤️❤️
Thank you for this review. I finished this book last and I'm super excited for sequel that just got announced. I agree completely with your thoughts on the story. I am still processing the book but your review is helping me reflect on it. Thanks again! 😊
OK, this is absolutely the best bool Ive ever read in my whole life. All the realistic thing mixed with magic and universe stuff are absolutely amazing and well built,but I disagree with you when you talked about the ending. Im kinda a cliché guy with romance, I really believe in soulmates finding themselves and staying together they whole life through the difficults, and that why i didnt like that ending. The whole book brings a message that says "whenever you and your partner go through a lot of hard things you can build a beautiful not perfect love story but perfect in you own way", and in the end they just """forget""" everything. Yeah, it would have been really strange a teenager just move to NYC to stay dating his boyfriend that he only knew 1 month ago, but they didnt even tried date in distance, an online date or something. Didnt like Arthur with all that guys and I absolutely disliked Mikey and all that epilogue. Just soooo not well as the rest of the book. The book was so freaking good for having that ending.
But I loved the whole book, and I wanna read the other works from Adam(but they will not be perfect as What if its us). Its the most brilliant book I have ever seen in my whole life, so well builted, with so good written. Arthur is literally like me in every single thing he does, I absolutely understand what he did and why he did. And I wanna read the sequel for having they together again. Thing that point to the fact that they end up together is that they both end single, in love, in contact and living close(arthur moved to Connecticut, wich is pretty next to NYC). What you guys think about all of it?
Just finished reading the book and yah Adam always finds a way to make me cry ...I just want them to end up together 😭😭
*Spoilers for the ending!!*
It's been over twelve hours since I finished the book and I'm still crying. I HATE it.
They could have ended up together, they SHOULD have ended up together. I agree that Arthur needed to graduate back in Georgia, but he could have gone studying at NYU or Columbia. Especially since he didn't go to Yale.
I read books to escape reality, even for a bit, and a grand reunion between these two would have been magical.
They obviously still love each other, and not in an a-platonic way.
I feel robbed from this ending and after being so invested in the story, a bit heartbroken too
right? i was hoping Arthur would study in new york, he said himself that they offered something he was intrested in so i thought it was kinda a win-win
@@KexyTime Exactly! It's not like Wesleyan University it an ivy league, so he could go to NYU or Berkeley just as well
IKR or they could just continue by having a Long Distance Relationship...
this is in my top 5 YA LGBT+ books and i kept nodding to everything you said about the book. i love the open-ending to the book as you get to decide whether they have a do-over of their relationship or not.
This book gave me sooooo much feels. Like I hadn't cried so bad over a book since I read Eleanor and Park.
Ben and Arthur's love story is my dream. The authors made the book such a rollercoaster of touching the skies to sinking at the bottom of the earth. It was dreamy and realistic at the same time which not many writers can do. At the end while bawling my eyes out I realized that this book has become a big moment of my life. This is the book I finished in 8 hours non stop and I was left broken with romantic fantasies about my future.
All in all, this book lived up to my expectations and beyond. I couldn't have asked for anything else. Even the ending was in it's way perfect.
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I love this book so much!!! It was so aaaahhh, like I cant even describe how awesome it was. It was like a slice of life, rom com, and fluffy angst and it just, all I can say is that I'm glad that I picked this book. I literally laughed out loud, cried and it made me feel emotions I never thought I would feel while reading. I honestly wish this would be a movie. Like, I would definitely watch that. It was like WOW. The ending was super unexpected for me. I honestly thought that they were just gonna have a long distance relationship and...I cried. I do not regret this book. After I finished, I literally made fanart that quick. I most definitely enjoyed this book. Beginning 'til the end. From their first meeting to their break- up. This book will remain in my heart and in my shelf for forever 💖💝
Some booktubers say this book is a failure, even one or two ask for a refund. It's the first time I watched you and enjoyed a lot your book review. I'm already subscribed to your channel.
I just got done with it today. I legit read it in 1 day. Absolutely loved it. I think it's cool bc it really shows how people come into your life for periods of time and while we all move on, you never have to completely lose them.
I loved this book. I'm way older than you but it also made me cry so much. One thing I thought while looking at uour blue eyes.....you are Arthur! 😊
I just finished reading this book and I loved it! Your review is really accurate and I love when you say "can't relate" hahaha
Loved the book so much! Honestly want to read it again... Self-control is hard lol 😂
I'm done reading this book and it's kind an awesome thing. I'm filipino hope you notice me
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I think that's the point of the book it shows that 2 opposites don't attract sometimes and it was a physical attraction only. If you like dark novels and sad ones then Adam Silvera is ur guy and Becky Albertalli is more for happy bubbly stuff. I think I get now why they did this book.
Apparently there's gonna be a sequel in 2021. I think
I enjoyed this book so much! It was a fast read for me too, because it’s pace was so well done. The characters were set up appropriately and did have some development through the plot, which I enjoyed! I was also really glad that it was so relevant in a teenagers/young adults life; things like Insta, Hamilton, Dave & Busters, etc. I was okay with the ending, only because it seemed fair and right, but I was kinda stagnant on it. And hunni, I laughed so much while reading this, especially Arthur’s narrations! I can honestly see this as a movie and wish a company would offer to do this! It’d be so good!!
Honestly? This is one of my favorite books i’ve eVER read. Seriously. I cried so hard and I just finished a couple days ago... still crying... but actually. This is incredible.
Thank you for sharing. I read the book a while back and just finished listening to the Audio book (which was incredible). I was very interested to hear your thoughts on the ending, I personally hated it, although I prayed it was written that way to set up a sequel for the happy, never to be parted, ending I seem to need in my life! :) I read a movie has been commissioned and is in pre-production. Cant wait to see what they do with it. x
I love this book, and I love this review!!! Omg your adorable and I hope you keep uploading stuff ❤️
I like some parts, and I really love Dylan, he reminds me to mostly all my friends; it’s nice to understand what they try to transmit, and the end is so nice but not my favorite book, it’s just ok!
Nice review, I'm scared of what emotions I'm gonna feel and how it's gonna end . I wasn't sure if I even wanted to read it but you make me want to pick it up tomorrow deadass
I just finished reading the book and wow! I love this book. These references to musicals and stuff are so on point and I reherad the Hamilton soundtrack a lot latetly ^^ The ending left me satisfied. I felt a little bad for Ben since he is single and hasn't kissed anyone apart from Arthur. What I loved is the final conclusion which appears to be the ultimum of an open ending! They are still best friends and they don't have a clue what is about to come up. :) But they know that they can start from the exact point where they left...
Waiting for my book to come. i'll come watch this after I finish it lol.
ChrisVigilante i hope you love it!
Yup. Me too. 4 days!
I tried to make it last but i couldnt put it down.
I LOVED IT!!
I just wish it had the ending that i hoped it had.
i really wanted them to stay together the ending had me crying because i was hoping that they would get back together
I heard about this book in September or October of 2020 and I looked for it in Walmart, Target and Barnes and noble, but obviously it's already 2 years old and Walmart and Target wouldn't have it and my Barnes and noble sucks. In December, I finally decided to buy the EBook on Google play. I started reading it On January 1st and I just finished it about 3 hours ago. So it also took me 4 days. Lol. But I can *NOT* wait for the sequel and the movie!!!! The sequel gives me hope for Ben and Arthur and I really just wanna see it as a movie. Hopefully the movie will do it justice. And if “Here's to us” is as good as the first book, I fricking hope that it also gets a movie and that the movie does it justice.
Im reading this book at school right now (its from my library) and I love it so much!
Just read Here's to us.... waiting for your review!
I read this book in 4 days too!
Just finished this book today and I loved it, it was so adorable.
I will be coming back for the ending - I really wanna read this book now!
Janka Larissa yay! See you soon 😉
@@TheBookTuber I'm seven pages in and there were three Harry Potter references. Three! This book only can get better.
So, I was listening to the audiobook, I was sitting in class, I was the only one in the room, I was just casually listening and waiting for class to start. BUT THEN. OH BUT THEN. I got to the scene where they were saying their goodbyes and I just started BAWLING. LIKE A BABY. I was INCONSOLABLE. And of course, this, THIS is when everybody starts to enter the classroom. AND THEY ALL JUST STARED AT ME like “omg. Are you okay? Did somebody die?” And I’m just sitting there in a puddle of my own tears like “No, no, I’m fine.” I WAS NOT FINE. NO BOOK HAS EVER MADE ME FEEL SUCH INTENSE EMOTIONS. I HAVE NEVER BEEN AS INVESTED IN A STORY OR ITS CHARACTERS AND THE LIVES OF THOSE CHARACTERS. THIS BOOK CHANGED ME AS A PERSON.
I did the same thing! Than god i was alone at home where no one could see me!
I finished the book in 4 days toooooo!
Ok im Late to this show but you know what honest truth I have not read the book yet so absolutely loved when you said OK good bye just go i loved it 🤣🤣🤣
Oh this book is everything I read it idk a year ago and I just couldn't put it down I just remember I read it everywhere in my room in so many uncomfortable positions I just I love it and I just want everyone to really it.
I read the book and Namrata and Juliet reminds me of Daniela and Carla from In the heights.
Great video!!!! :D I need to pick this one up, I love cute books.
the amount of hate ive seen on this book is ridiculous. this book is so freakin good! the characters (especially dylan), the descriptions, the references, the speed and the use of fate and universes. i laughed I cried it was perfect
“Here’s to us” comes out in like a month and ur gonna have to do a review of it!
Great Review! For me I loved their relationship so much that I didn’t enjoy the ending 😭
I just love the way you talk
I read this in 3 days, no joke. I was reading this in class and I almost got it confiscated.
You amazing! Thanks for your videos. ;)
I love this book and the ending was perfection
I need a second one and I didn't like simon as much I gave it like 3.7 but what if its us was like 3.9 4 stars
I loved the book. I loved the story even more because it is not too unrealistic. But I find the ending extremely unsatisfactory. And I am begging for a sequel, but then again that isn't going to happen anytime soon or may just never...
To summerise, I love love love it. And I honestly need can't get enough.
Sam Wong Adam just said on Twitter that their writing schedules aren’t synced up but him and Becky do have a title and plot for book 2 :)
I read this book in a week ( i have school ) i almost cried 6 times I’m about to dieeee i completed this today and eeeekkkk
I’ve only heard the first 1.06 minutes and I’m sooo gonna buy this book now (also just finished they both die in the end soo♥️)
Aqui_ BLOVER omg I love that book but ofc...the ending made me cry 😤💓
@@marieanaya_ does it have a happy ending???
Aqui_ BLOVER ...no :/
@@marieanaya_ nooooooooo
Oh. I know how that is :)
Well I am sure you will enjoy it! However I did cry a lot at then end :(
The book is beautiful!!!! I love it so much!
THERE'S A FRIGGIN SEQUEL!!! MY HEART AND MY SOUL AND MY MIND IS REJOICING RN CUZ I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED ASAP AND IDK IK IK IT'S PROB GON BE A LONG TIME BEFORE THIS IS RELEASED BUT I AM WILLING TO WAIT FOR IT
uh anyways so here's the link for the goodreads thing for it it's still untitled tho:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/52959255-untitled
sidenote: i swear @/adam and becky give it a happy ending or namrata will STRUT into your room and unleash the power of the dinosaur webcomics and also yeah include the manbun twins okie bb luv u
I actually annotated this book. I hate annotating. I legit went through like, 2 packs of sticky notes even after ripping them in fourths noting my favorite/important parts
Not gonna lie, I had an emotional hang over after reading this lol... I loved it
Yesyesyesyes!!!👏👏👏
The Upsides of Unrequited isn’t really worth the read. It’s not really relevant in the Simonverse and the characters were extremely flat with no real values- and the entire plot was predictable.
Oh, and I JUST literally completed this book and I’m speechless.
DNF'ed that book
I wish i have that book but they're are too expensive in my country 🙄😬
ok, you just convince me to read "the statistical probability of love at first sight" because of your video, from 6 YEARS AGO
"This romance sucks" I literally laughed out loud
Andrea Roberts 😝hahaha out of context this probably looks real bad
It was a super cute story. But like Harry Potter, I did not like the epilogue at all. They had this really special connection that was built up again and again throughout the book and then for it to just end like it did. Felt lackluster and just sad. I'd say the only thing I did like about it was how intense their feelings for each other kind of reversed. Arthur was head over heels the entire time, and Ben was coming from a breakup so his feelings took longer to develop, obviously. And then Arthur is playing the field a bit and Ben is hung up on him and I'm just like ugh. Please get back together. Hate that it ended the way it did. I read to escape reality and get my happy ending. Maybe there will be a sequel to make it better. I'll hold out hope. BTW the audio book is so good and the voice actor for Arthur = FLAWLESS.
read this book in two daysss
this book felt like a millennial writing for Gen Z at a middle school reading level. I enjoyed it but definitely would have liked it better if I was 12 (and it would have been great to have a book like this at that time)
Uwuwuwuuw I LOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH I CRIED SO MUCH
finally 🙏🏼
Oh gosh finally!! I gotta grab mine ASAP!
Rin San yes!!
Anyone have any books that are like this book i love it so much 😁 pls tell me in yhe comments below
Do I need to read some of their stories before reading "What if it's us"?
Nope, it stands on its own!
Did you read it?
@@dreammix9430 I still did not. Hahaha But I definitely added it to my list. I just need to finish the other stories.
If you wonder wether this books is good or bad, just form an opinion around the fact that the word _mansplain_ makes an appearance there
*On Page 164.*
Hey Arthur.
I love this book and I have it
I made a what if it’s us Amino!
I read a trashy book by a new author called Bill E. I. Tracy and would like to hear your thoughts about the book. It's an e book called Cop of Vengeance on Amazon. Love your work, cheers.
I really did not like that every time that Benito is named by Arthur he calls him Benjamin, and that just makes me a bit mad, maybe because I’m Hispanic, idk.
There's one thing I found amazing in this book. Becky and Adam thought about little details about gay relationships and it makes their relationship very real. It's seems, as always, that Becky has stolen the diary of a young gay boy
Oddly..... I could imagine you as Arthur..... If you have a boyfriend, i do hope he looks like Ben.... Hehe!
I really like your shirt
Arthur Bracey thank you!
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How cool is Dylan....
....with his attitude he'll be the happiest of the lot!!
Ben would have been so lucky if Dylan was bi!!! 😉
Could you Review Snow White and the 7 Dwarves the old Version single book that comes with the Audio Tape?
Just reading it now :) Let’s help the universe find our soulmates! :) Message me :)
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Just got done being a teenager xD
honestly i hated this. i like albertalli, but silvera makes me seethe. i hate everything about his books - his characters are flat, his prose is uninspired, and his plots are meandering. this book encapsulated all of that for me, icb it’s so popular
Is that a bi flag? In the back?
لا اله الا الله ☁️
I thought it was enjoyable and cheesy (not necessarily a bad thing) but the ending was SO unsatisfying
Why am I the only one who seriously hates this book? It's the most cliche and cringey book I've ever read TBH . Zero chemistry between the characters
I just finished reading it today *Sorry for not being updated in books i just currently into reading thats why* Regarding the Ending of it, I was like "WHAT THE FVCK THE 'WHAT IF THINGY' GO GET ARTHUR!" but yeah it ends there. And I googled immediately if there is a sequel and glad that It has but after I saw the preview of the sequel it disappoint me to the point that I hate Ben :( Gawd this book is not giving you the vibes of Happy Ending we always looking for this book throws to us the 'Reality' that might happen to every people. Im still depressed and it was 3hrs after i finished the book but im still sad HAHAHAHAHA