The writing was beautiful, and I understand how a reader could fall in love with this book, but I found it too unsettling and too uncomfortable to enjoy or even really appreciate. Will’s obsessive love for Phoebe was uncomfortable and upsetting, and all the more so because I didn’t quite follow the development of such passion in the scenes that described their relationship. Phoebe never seemed that appealing or that special, and Will’s willingness to follow her, quite literally, to the ends of the earth seemed like an attempt to satisfy some need that I also didn’t really understand, and which wasn’t fully explained by his religious crisis and return.