I'm aching. Everywhere.

Suki Fleet has a way of writing complex characters that are going through shit but manage to love each other even through the harshest lives.
It's really quite beautiful. But oh how painful it can be...

This book was particularly painful to me at the time I was reading it.
It's constantly sad (with a few rays of light here and there but otherwise mostly sad). I would have picked this up at a different time, my feelings toward this book would probably be different. Having read it now however, I'm just sad. There was an attempt at making me feel better with the prologue but I painfully read through 260 pages of sadness.
I didn't want to feel sad.

One thing that bothered me was that the sign language didn't feel used fully. It's great to see sensory disabilities represented (mute, deaf), however knowing a bit about sign language, I felt like the way it was written into this book was too simple, not fleshed out enough.
I would have loved to read more about how Romeo was signing, what their signs were for each other (each person has a sign that replaces the spelling of their name). I also felt like the fact that anyone could just read his lips if they couldn't sign felt a little unbelievable.

Anyways. Suki Fleet is still a great author whose characters and stories will probably forever rip my heart out.