Ok...I started this book and it sat on GR currently reading shelf for a long time...I didn't connect with the story right away. When I went to move the book from currently reading to want to read, I opened my kindle to see how far I had made it, thinking I was like 20% in. I was 9% in. And in opening it...I continued reading. And that turned into a non-stop binge. This story is amazing. I have found in my reader brain, third person POV is a slippery slope. I either connect immediately or I don't. BUT what I have come to realize is that when you are dealing with so many players in the game, and past to present sometimes the story requires that point of view. We the readers would have missed out on so much of the story if it was in first person. Slowly but surely I am seeing the relevance of this writing style and even appreciating it. Enough about that. This book was heartfelt, surreal, ethereal, and so deeply entrenched in friendship and goodness that I completely lost myself in the pages. Lost in the unrequited love of two best friends that watched and nurtured everyone but themselves for so long that they almost lost the thing they needed most. Each other. Beautifully told. Completely loved. It goes to say, if you don't succeed the first time...try try again. So glad I did. Amazing.