*3.5 stars* 
 This was a good book, definitely very easy and quick to read, but I didn't love it as much as so many other readers have. The writing style is really artistic and beautiful so I think that's why I was able to fly through this in a day or so. I love books with dual-perspectives and I was really digging the way this was structured- twins Jude and Noah are the narrators, Noah narrating life at age 13/14, Jude narrating life in the present 3 years later. The two story lines are so intriguing and almost like a mystery- trying to figure out what happened in the past to have caused the present issues. 
 My main issue was that I didn't feel 100% connected to the story and found myself rolling my eyes at a lot of parts. The writing gets cheesy and some lines tried so hard to be clever or interesting that it just missed the mark for me. Noah's sections would have random captions with painting titles (ex. Portrait, Self-Portrait: Gray Noah Eating Gray Apples) and that just confused me and I really didn't think it added anything but more cheese to the story. 
 So ultimately I liked this book and thought it was well worth the read (especially for all the emotional bits) but the over-the-top cheese levels kept me from super loving this.