My favorite detail about this novel is how unreliable the narrator is purposefully made. As readers, we don’t know Josephine is unreliable until the novel comes to a close. It made me question everything I had just read. That was an exciting element that I had not expected! The unreliable narrator also brought the novel back down to earth, especially after I felt it had floated way above its own grasp. It made the characters and the story itself more human, more recognizable, without letting that dreaminess it had worked so hard to attain go. 

I liked the story overall. Like I mentioned, some of it floated beyond its reach. But, overall, I liked its story and aesthetic. 

I feel the story sometimes floated way into the heavens, way beyond what it could reasonably attain in 304 pages. It seemed to be hinting at something larger than what actually ended up happening, which made the ending a slight disappointment. All throughout the novel, readers are made to want some grand ending, but it doesn’t exactly happen that way.