A review by kayetaz
Us by Elle Kennedy, Sarina Bowen

5.0

5 ⭐️
Spice: 🌶️🌶️/5
Format: ebook

I am not ready to say goodbye to Wes and Jamie yet. 

This book put my emotions through the damn wringer, which I wasn’t really expecting based on the first one. There was definitely a bit more angst in Us than there was in Him. Jamie’s little bout of depression from his illness and the loneliness from them hiding their relationship made for a tough couple of chapters. But the way Wes loves him is so beautiful. Seeing it through Wes’s eyes and then watching Jamie come to understand it later on… Like I was seriously emotional over them for a good portion of this book.

Also huge shoutout to Blake Riley from going to a character I wanted to be killed off to literally one of my favorites of all time a handful of chapters later. He gives Kenji Kishimoto vibes in the best way. Amazing comic relief during the sad chapters, and just making me bust out laughing the rest of the time.

I also want to address Jamie’s whole family but his mom in particular, who treated Wes like a son and finally gave him a parental figure who gave a shit about him. Fuck Wes’s parents, for real. Baby boy deserves so much better and found it with his fiancé’s family. 

I just love all these characters so much and I’m sad all I have left of them is a tiny novella. I can’t wait to read more from Sarina and Elle though. Serious power duo, those two.