The Story of Us is a moving and captivating YA contemporary about Cricket being on a journey to sort her life out. She's taking a break from her long-time boyfriend, her mother is finally remarrying but after jilting two previous fiances, Cricket's worried that her mother might get cold feet again. Everything seems to be going wrong on this wedding trip. 
 While it seems like the novel will have a love triangle, the truth is that this is very much Cricket's story. I didn't even notice "the third party", Ash, for very long. I loved how the story is told through Cricket's POV as well as her letters to her long-time boyfriend. Her back story also included the history of her mother's love life, as well as how her parents came to be divorced. It really pained me to find out that Cricket had an abusive father and that he really was a mean, mean man. I think the point where I realized that this book was going from good to great was when Janssen, Cricket's boyfriend, stood up to her father. I honestly cried while reading. It was just so moving. 
 I think essentially, The Story of Us is a story about love and the different kinds of it, and not just Cricket's story and her journey. It's the love between Janssen and herself, the love her mother has for her and her brother, the love between her mother and her fiance, and just the love all around them. 
 While I don't think this novel was as good as Caletti's previous Stay, I still enjoyed it very much. 4.5 stars from me!