This book is beautifully written and the love story is executed in such a unique and beautiful fashion. I loved reading the letters and blasted through this book because of wanting to get to each letter.

However, that’s also part of why I’m placing this at 4 instead of 5 stars. I loved the letters, but the lore and surrounding story being written to get to them felt so vague and loosely constructed that I almost wondered why it was there at all. I still don’t fully know what the war was truly about or why these two different factions sprung up to fight it. Maybe I’m not supposed to because Red and Blue don’t really know either, but it felt like that could have been more clearly expressed as well. It was only the last 20 or so pages of the book, when the letters had stopped, that the action portion of the book became interesting to read and I think it was because all the emotions from the letters got transferred into those actions. I would have liked this to be a little longer so it could flesh out the world the letters exist in.

It’s poetic and flowery in such wonderful ways, but the structure of the story could definitely have used some stronger roots.