It Starts with Us

Okay so I loved IEWU and felt it was nearly perfect but I wanted more Atlas storyline. Right after I finished it, I heard that ISWU was coming out and I was so excited. I loved this book. I'd say probably like a 3.75 for me. The pace felt a little off. The beginning was slow and steady, day by day but the last third of the book felt like it skipped time too much for me. I wanted it to be a little longer of a book. I wanted more Atlas and Ryle content. Overall, it definitely gave me some of what I wanted more of from the first book but left me still wanting a bit more.

This left me feeling a bit indifferent. I'm not sure what I expected or wanted going into this as I was satisfied with the way Lily's story ended in IEWU and didn't think a sequel was necessary but since Colleen caved to the BookTok crowd and wrote one, I figured I should read it.

One thing I was hoping that this book would include was Ryle finally facing some consequences for his actions. We didn't really get that unfortunately. I feel like there was actually too much of him for a story that was supposed to be about Lily and Atlas.

naur