Still Alice is a very well written and detailed view of the life of an early-onset Alzheimer's patient. It follows her life for a two year time period, documenting her steady decline. I found myself emotionally involved and moved by the story, sometimes feeling as if Alice were a real person needing comfort. Lisa Genova captures Alice's struggle to accept her disease and share it with her family. She demonstrates the difficulty that faces Alice in giving up a profession she loves and in slowly losing her memories of the people closest to her. I hurt for Alice and I found anger in the way her husband approached the illness, often abandoning her in order to save himself from the pain of her disease. I felt her loneliness and I ached for the times when she felt so utterly confused and lost. I feared for her safety and her happiness. In short, I felt that I came to really know her. For the most part I absolutely loved this book. Though sad and, in the end inevitable, I could not put this book down. The only thing keeping it from 5 stars for me was a somewhat lackluster conclusion, leaving me with a feeling of emptiness and a lack of resolution. It felt as though the book was wrapped up rather hastily, as if in a hurry to get it to a publisher rather than take the time to really keep the detail that had pulled the story along so seamlessly and see it through the end. I really could have done with more.