Stories are wild, wild animals and go off in directions you couldn't expect. 
 I have tears running down my face right now because this book is so utterly beautiful, moving, and heartbreakingly honest. It captured such complex emotions in the most inventive way I've ever seen. I read this in a little over an hour, so my thoughts are relatively incoherent and jumbled, but I'm trying to encapsulate the pure brilliance that is this book into a quick review. 
 The hype surrounding this book is not an exaggeration, and I'm a little upset that I didn't read this sooner. It's unpredictable, with characters that will make your heart ache immensely so. It is a thought provoking, incredibly moving work of art about life and death. I thought I knew what was going to happen, and like the quote at the beginning of this review details, this story went off in a direction that I couldn't have anticipated.