This is the story of individuals in raw, unadulterated love; the feeling of vulnerability oozes out of the book in many magnificent scenes of togetherness. It’s not so much that the book does not manage to capture the intimacy between the couple, but its true excellence lies in letting us in the moment of togetherness perfectly. I didn’t feel like a spectator of the events, but I felt the warmth of their love.
The book is easily one of the best books I have ever read; it also can serve as the perfect template for writing a romantic book. The book is best as it front loads in letting us know the emotions experienced by our characters efficiently and subtly; it’s the emotions that instantly feel relatable to us as we, the humans, deal with the same insecurities, thoughts, ideas, and capacity to love. The book, on more than one occasion, may stop you in your tracks as it hits too close to home.
It’s a book that doesn’t want to please you for the sake of plot and characters; it isn’t oblivious to the dynamism of the natural world and is acutely aware of our dissonance in dealing with life and the relationship.
Life is unfair, sometimes grossly unfair, even more so when people themselves are flawed, all of them trying to find their identity in the world and maybe find someone for whom life seems a lot more tolerable and a pleasure to share life.
They say we all are different, but in the end, we are just sane people harboring the same anxiety and feelings. This results in a lot of intricacy where nothing is certain, and things are liable to get destroyed in the blink of an eye. Even with the feeling that these complications are involved, people love each other selflessly and unconditionally. The book is the story of one such couple.
Ending the book left me in a state of cluttered emotions; all I could think about was the inexplicable sadness of the book, the fallacy of human minds in love yet deeply grateful to read a story about two individuals inexplicably finding each other, they couldn’t have been more different and yet with them together one cant picture them separately.
by Sunapr1