I needed the next book in my hands like three minutes ago.

First and foremost, thank you to Hayley Kiyoko and St. Martin's Press & Wednesday Books for an e-ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review! To be completely honest, this was a confusing book for me to rate-- and I really needed to be understanding of the YA nature of the book. Kiyoko offers a lovely, sapphic, YA romance set in a time where you hardly see it represented. She gives us a "What if?" situation, something so dear to me. I enjoyed this one more than her last, and I had a genuinely good time reading the book. The characters were great; Freya, her sisters, and Ivy were all fun to read, which is incredibly important to me. The settings were light and playful, and the book is just a good time. That said, the ending, just like for Kiyoko's last book, is abrupt. It just feels like the main conflict, leading to a third-act breakup, was not explored in the way it ought to have been. In the span of 50 pages or, like, seven chapters, the pacing seems off and whilst that seems like enough time to properly have communication, the 40th chapter is set two months later, and the 42nd chapter jumps another year into the future. And the political subplot was just vague towards the end even if it was a large part of the main conflict of the novel; I think it would have been a better and more through experience if the story had addressed what all it brought up! That said, I long for more period pieces that create "What if?" situations in literature; for fans of Bridgerton indeed. Where There's Room For Us is a fun YA romance novel with a context that is unfamiliar to me and genuinely an enjoyable read.