This is a beautiful, surprisingly tender story about queer love. The plot is very… contained, if that makes sense. It’s simple; localized. 

There’s a lot you, as the reader, don’t know and are never told about all the events prior to the beginning of the book, and while that seemed a bit distracting at first, once I discarded my need to have the entire backstory explained to me and simply focused on appreciating the story being told for what it is, I began to really enjoy it.

If I can nitpick for a moment, I will say I thought the characters developed very strong feelings for  one another unbelievably fast. I was surprised at times toward the beginning by their level of affection, when there hadn’t seemed to have been enough preliminary interaction to warrant it. I understand this is a short book though, so the pace is going to need to move quickly.