2022: This is a perfect example of me being able to see why other people like this book, but it just didn't do it for me.

First off, I think I did the wrong move here and I listened to the audiobook version. Based off some of my friends' reviews, I think that I might have appreciated the wordplay and some of the story more if I had been seeing the words (which is how I learn best anyway). While listening to it, especially for the first ~50 pages or so, it was like I recognized all of the words that were being said, but I could not ascribe any meaning to them.

I was thrown off whenever it switched from letters / passive storytelling to actual dialogue. Apparently there were also two different narrators for the audiobook, but I literally couldn't tell. What's the point of having two narrators if their voices are so similar that you can't tell when one begins and the other one ends?!

Here's the deal - I think this book was over my head. I'll admit it! I was not 100% sure of what was going on at any point during the book, and that is never a good feeling. I hate feeling like I am totally and completely lost in novels! I'll also say that I have a really hard time with love stories where the two people who are *dying* for each other because they are soooo in love....have never met?!