Unlike anything I’ve read in terms of historical period/setting/focus. I loved the pacing of this book. I normally can’t read things in one sitting but I devoured the second half of this on the flight home from Rome and didn’t get tired of it one bit. I love that it was told from B’s point of view without you even realizing it thanks to N’s journals, and I loved the causal bisexual representation! So heartfelt and so human, so delicately and artfully done