Author: David Nicholls
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Summary: Douglas is a pretty reserved and straight-laced guy. Despite this, he wooed the artistic Connie into marrying him almost 30 years ago and now their son Albie is 17 years old. Right before the family is set to depart on a month-long European tour, Connie announces that she wants a divorce. Should they cancel the trip? Of course not! Douglas wants to use the trip to persuade Connie to stay and to attempt to get closer to Albie. What could go wrong?
Review: One Day is one of my favorite books of all time so I was excited to see Nicholls' latest book. I couldn't bring myself to see the movie version of One Day because I'm not a huge fan of Anne Hathaway and I didn't want to see yet another movie epically fail to do a book justice. I digress.
It took me a while to get into Us, but once I did I enjoyed it. This book certainly didn't go the way I thought it was going to. How could it? Here's what I liked:
- The back story on how Douglas and Connie met.
- How Douglas' initial perspective on his relationship with his son didn't portray the full story.
- The disastrous start to the trip and how it evolved.
- Douglas' acknowledgement that he had made mistakes and his attempts to fix them.
- The ending.
So why not the full five stars? Because initially it wasn't one of those books that I was dying to read at the end of the day. I'd pick it up and I enjoyed it, but it wasn't one that I wanted to stay up all night reading.
Time to write: 6:26
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