This is a genre-bending novel that will leave you breathless. The prose itself is beautiful, as is Olivie Blake's signature character-focused plot. But more than that, it experiments with point of views, both using Regan and Aldo as well as an omniscient narrator a la film scripts. It's definitely a literary fiction book posing as a fantasy romance, which could be a marketing issue for some. But regardless I felt safe reading this book, enfolded in its pages. The discussion of mental health and prescriptions will hit differently for some, and I almost wish that that part of the acknowledgments had come first, but it is a view into one person's experience with bipolar. The reality of how mood disorders and creativity interact is something I experience daily and found the Regan's descriptions to be accurate. It's ugly, messy, and angsty at times but overall captivating.