Lynnie 
contemporary fiction
I really liked David Nicholls' book One Day; it had great characters, and followed an interesting idea. Sadly, Us had neither of those. Rather, Us has characters who are really kind of awful (with the exception of the narrator Douglas who I just felt sorry for throughout the book), being awful to one another while they embark on one last grand adventure. I thought the travel descriptions were wonderful and vivid, but in the end I hated the characters no matter where they were in Europe.
I think the way the story wove back & forth between the Petersen family's current travels and the history of Douglas & Connie was done well, but in the end I just didn't care what happened to any of them in the past, present or future.
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