This is the most romantic book of all time. It does away with all semblance of time, place, gender, wants, needs, affection. So if that makes you uncomfortable, you may be in for a wild ride. It is also a book that takes several re-readings to fully grasp the story line. I read it annually on Valentines Day and gain more admiration for it every time.
It has all of the panache of a grand epic, but it moves along much quicker with jumps in time and grand adventures along the way. The end is a great twisty loop of love and heartache and sacrifice and beauty and pain. Along the way, the story unfolds in letters back in forth which leave the reader holding their breath and never really being able to catch up.
I think this could just as easily have been classified as poetry because the writing is so melodramatic. It's definitely an emo story, but in an acceptably passionate way, not an "emo for the sake of being emo" way.
It has all of the panache of a grand epic, but it moves along much quicker with jumps in time and grand adventures along the way. The end is a great twisty loop of love and heartache and sacrifice and beauty and pain. Along the way, the story unfolds in letters back in forth which leave the reader holding their breath and never really being able to catch up.
I think this could just as easily have been classified as poetry because the writing is so melodramatic. It's definitely an emo story, but in an acceptably passionate way, not an "emo for the sake of being emo" way.