I really love this book. Every time I read it I just cry my eyes out. But honestly, it's not well written. I actually think it's pretty poorly written. It feels so flatly melodramatic. The characters feel like caricatures more than real people and half the time the dialogue is just absurd. So I can see why people would hate this. I just can't. I enjoy it so much. The story gets to me every single time. I thought about giving this three stars, but I genuinely spent two thirds of this book crying and I couldn't justify rating it lower than four stars when it hit me that hard emotionally. It's all the little things, like when she says she put on Gerry's robe but it's lost his smell or when she's half asleep and rolls over to ask him to turn off the light. Bawled my eyes out and will probably continue rereading this every few years.