Review: The Autumn Review for The Possibility of Us
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 18, 2014
After reading Dear Cassie, I felt good about the path Cassie was heading in. Then, I opened this one and my heart crumbled, just a little bit. I adored Ben, so my heart hurt a little to find out that things were less than perfect between them. But, in the end...I was a very happy reader.What worked for me:~Cassie is probably my favorite character from this collection. Her character is very real to me. I find myself relating to her in so many ways.~I felt like Cassie made some significant growth. One of my biggest issues with Dear Cassie was that I wanted her to trust Ben enough to tell him her whole story. In this book, it takes time, but I felt like she finally realized she wanted to be happy with Ben. And in order to do that, she needed to be honest, about everything.~Ben. Simply Ben. I love him.~Laura and Drew cracked me up and have left me...curious for more of them?What didn't work for me:~What didn't work for me wouldn't have given me this story. And without this book, I would have missed seeing Cassie's growth, so I suppose there wasn't really anything that bugged me.Overall, I really enjoyed it. I was happy to see Cassie move forward, unguarded and honest, with Ben. The Possibility of Us gave me the perfect escape I needed. I really got lost in the story of them. If you've followed this collection, you won't want to miss this.Quotes:~We'd both been broken before we met. We'd both been crushed after. What were we now?-Loc 476~"Honestly, I don't really sleep well. Not anymore, anyway," I admitted. Words I probably couldn't say if we weren't in the dark, if she could see my face-if we hadn't just spent hours eating and laughing and not talking about us."When did anymore start?" she asked.I swallowed hard. "Two months and twenty-nine days ago," I said."That's when my anymore started, too," she replied quickly.-Loc 662~In seconds, the miles that had been between us all weekend became feet and inches and then nothing. Our kiss was bottomless, blooming like a flower reflected in the night sky. It reminded me of who I was supposed to be-who we were supposed to be. And like that, we were we again, Cassie and Ben again.-Loc 1268~"Will you elbow me in the balls if I tell you I can't imagine my life without you?""No," she said, "but if you make me cry, I definitely f*cking will."-Loc 1419