Recommend only reading this book IF you need to be sad. It is a story of unrequited love by a very sad woman for an even sadder man. It's a pretty realistic story in many ways: what we might think about as we are dying, what we feel compelled to do because we are dying, regrets we need to reconcile, etc. as well as the ugly truth of what hurtful behaviors certain mental illnesses might trigger, how we never actually know what's going on in someone else's life and should never assume, and the difference in reality between what you think is happening versus what it actually looks like to the rest of the world.

I was already sad today, so this was the perfect book for my mood. There's one more in the series. Let's see if that one is any more uplifting, given how underwhelming the first one was and how sad this one was.