Review: Us

Us by Sarina Bowen
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Us is the sequel to the book Him, both of which were born from a collaboration of authors Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy. And now, after reading it, I wish there weren't a sequel.

The highlights are shifted in this book, totally getting outside the genre of the first book. While the first one has some drama and fleshed-out characters, it's a hot m/m... let's call it romance. The second book stresses the drama. Though there are some explicit scenes, the book is hardly hot. But such books are usually read for their hotness, right?

But if the authors wanted to write something dramatic and issue-of-the-day, ok, let's focus on the drama. They did a pretty good job building up the tension, the depression, and the desperation; they were at it for almost all the book. And then resolved it all on several pages. Unfortunately, real life usually doesn't work that way. A few words and gestures cannot take away all frustration and depression and make people whole and happy again. So the book fell short of the expectations set in the beginning, especially considering the fact that those expectations were set unnecessary and out-of-the-genre.

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