The reason why I feel I need to write a review for this book is that I think many people who have read it, cannot identify with the characters, and therefore find it "weird", or the characters "flat". 
 Personally, I can identify with the characters so much that it is almost painful. Just one moment in your life changes everything, you are broken and you cannot ever heal. And it was not even (entirely) your fault. 
 I am sick of characters who pretend to be different, but turn out to be just what everyone in the world seems to be feeling like. And in the end, they are really cool, and they tell us that we are really cool. And yes, our lives are actually quite good. 
 But no, there are people like Mattia and Alice, and they are not cool, they are really different, not just in the pretending way, the way everyone feels they are different from the world. They are ill, they are broken, they are not like you. 
 The reason why I rated this book with only 4 stars and not 5, is (view spoiler)[that I needed another ending. Just this once. Authors seem to think that sad endings are more realistic, or more artful. But I wish just for once, doomed people would get a happy ending. (hide spoiler)]