I think I would actually give this a 4.75 rounded up to a five stars.

First off the atmosphere? Immaculate.

Not everything is described in a way that is showing what he's actually seeing exactly but more as a like darkly metaphorical feeling, and I LOVE it.

The way that Andrew feels love is so relatable. That yearning aching darkness is just exactly everything that I want to hear and read and feel in a love story. And it is how I love, or at least how I conceptualize it.

There are so many lines about wanting to kind of graphically attach yourself to someone else that just dug so deep into my skin.

I also love how at no point did you know what was going to happen really or what the end was actually going to become. There is definitely a lot of foreshadowing for some of the bigger moments and some of the things that you felt were going to happen, but then you didn't really know for sure.

The only reason I wouldn't give it five stars on the dot is because it feels a little forced in some of the flowery language, but it is fair that Andrew would be speaking that way because that's how he writes. It just came off a little repetitive in some instances.

Beautiful 10 out of 10 and now I need a physical copy more than I need to breathe. Specifically that Barnes & Noble copy with the green edges.