4.5 stars.

There aren't a lot of books that can make me cry, but Lily and the Octopus did it. There were definitely pieces of this book that read like a fever dream, but it has a lot of emotional content that I could definitely identify with. It hurts my heart just thinking about it. This is definitely a book that I will reread in the future and that may find itself bumped up to a 5-star with subsequent readings.

Prep your heart for this one if you are an animal lover. It rings so true in terms of how it displays the closeness of the relationships that can develop between humans and their pets and hits hard.