I avoided this book forever, I didn't think I'd like it. For some reason I thought it was sci-fi-y? WHY? Why does that mean I wouldn't like it? Who knows. It started strong with a beautiful depiction of a relationship and just got better and more complex and twistier and messier (in a good way.) I was so pulled into the characters' minds, I felt them there with me. They were so believable that I really wondered what they were thinking, who they were, what drove them, and what their stories were. 
 A bit into the book I thought that it was just a book about a relationship and that that was the rollercoaster I would be on. I quickly felt a twist coming on, I wondered about it, and I was right. (Actually, there were two twists. One I did not foresee.) But knowing about it didn't spoil the book for me. 
 President Obama said this was his favorite book of 2015. I wonder if it really was. Did he have to clear that decision by a bunch of people? Did he truly read it? Did someone suggest he should call it out? I wish I could have a book club with him about it. 
 I love Mathilde. I think I want to be her for Halloween.