Two boys. One love. Ten summers. Are you okay?The first words Zed says to Caspian, and the first time someone has cared about the answer. On a hot summer’s day, the lives of two boys are changed forever. A rebel and a risk taker, Caspian doesn’t give a damn for the consequences. Studious and obedient, Zed is the good boy who is never good enough.The two couldn’t be more different, but there’s one … different, but there’s one thing they share, a need to belong to someone who understands them, someone who cares. Their friendship goes deeper than either can possibly imagine. They’re young, in love, and planning their future when an act of betrayal tears them apart.
Fate deals its hand. Seasons pass. Zed’s words follow Caspian through pain, fear and into the darkest of places. Friendships can last a lifetime, even when the world conspires to crush them. But this is more than friendship. This is love and they’re not going to let it slip through their fingers.
Warning
The Story of Us is a tale of love and survival, and the triumph of good over evil against the odds. It’s a new adult contemporary romance that deals with family and social issues. There is violence and cruelty to children but not sexual assault. The story has sexual situations, dark elements and suspense. The events and locations are a mixture of real and fictional. The characters are fictional.
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Breathtakingly beautiful, and utterly heartbreaking. I love a book that threatens the life of my kindle.
This book has got to be one of my top reads for 2018.
The Story of Us drags out every emotion possible in a reader.
We follow the lives of Zed and Caspian over ten years. Ten years of friendship, heartache, unfairness, anger and love. Ten years of hoping and wishing that things were different. This book is not an easy read, but omg will you want to keep going until the very end!
This story will make you laugh, smile, cry, scream and hope. I guarantee you will not forget The Story of Zed and Caspian.
This was such a beautiful book! There’s a certain amount of angst and trauma, and it is a tearjerker, but how Zed and Caspian remained committed to each other despite everything life threw at them was beautiful to see. Just stunning.
One of the best ever ~
I wish I could tell every one of my book friends to drop what they’re reading and pick up The Story of Us.
Zed and Caspian’s story, individually and together, is equally heart wrenching, captivating, disturbing, and breathtakingly
beautiful as the author takes us on a journey from when these two first met in 2010 at fourteen and fifteen years old to their current lives in 2019.
Zed lives with his father, a strict Muslim who is a physically abusive monster. I’m pretty sure his acts aren’t indicative to how peaceful and kind Muslims live their life. It’s sickening how Zed could be left bleeding with broken bones and it’s okay because you know … praise Allah.
There are terrorist acts in this story because it takes place when those horrible acts were happening in Manchester and London.
Caspian comes from a privileged family with a father who thinks he’s stupid and won’t amount to anything because he’s dyslexic.
Everything must be seen as perfect for his family’s image. Caspian is dispensable after all, so why shouldn’t his father choose his brother’s life over his. Caspian’s father is a monster too—a verbally and mentally abusive monster. What he does to Caspian makes Zed’s father look like a saint. I was left speechless.
Zed runs away through the woods and finds winds up on Caspian’s land. The two become fast friends and Caspian’s treehouse winds up to be their safe haven for so many reasons throughout the years.
The rest of their story travels throughout the years and is one of survival, friendship, and love. True, unbreakable, and undying love. To each other, their love is as vital as their next breath to carry on another day from the nightmare that is their lives.
Zed eventually finds sanctuary when he moves into Jonas and Henry’s home. I can’t stress how important these two successful and loving gay men are to Zed’s well-being and his future. They are my all-time favorite supporting characters. What the two influential and selfless men do to guide and encourage Zed towards success and how they help Caspian from the horror he endures and love him as one of their own is nothing short of a miracle.
I will never forget this story. The Story of Us is a treasure—so beautifully written with a storyline that filled me with such deep sadness, bouts of anger, hope for the future, and most of all, love. Get some tissues. MUST READ. Ten stars.
I really enjoyed this book and I love this author as well!
Warning: I’m writing this only about 2/3 through the book. But I can safely say this was the best $.99 Kindle spec purchase I’ve ever made. Incredibly involving, with characters that just really come alive on the page. So beautifully written that I can hardly put my Kindle down, even as I want the story never to end. Why am I even wasting time writing this review when the book is just waiting for me to continue on these two boys’ journeys through their difficult adolescence to (hopefully) a happy resolution?