This is certainly a bitter sweet love story, taking place in Seattle during the 40s. But while it is about love, it is also about hate and discrimination, about the injustices performed towards innocent people, all in the name of war. 
 This story was poetic in its prose, a graceful story spanning generations. I can definitely see how many people have fallen in love with the story and its characters. That being said, I was bored to tears. I'm not sure if it was because I wasn't in the right frame of mind to be reading it, or maybe there would never come a time for my enjoyment of this book. Either way, it was like watching paint dry, thinking "Ooh! Here comes the good part!" It was strangely all the same, much as a straight line. There was little to give the plot a form of motion. 
 On the plus side, I did enjoy learning the history of the time period. I didn't know much about the Japanese internment beforehand, and the situations and circumstances of the time were well depicted in the book. The setting was well set.