My journey with this book has been an interesting one, to say the least. For at least half the book, I was approaching it the wrong way. Looking at as a fiction book and I found my ability to actually enjoy it was mediocre. Thankfully, I was enlightened and seeing it as more of a poetry-led tale helped me actually enjoy it.

And you know what? This improved my experience. It let me think back on the first half and how beautiful the writing was. The love story between red and blue, all the different kinds of words for red and blue I was exposed to.

This is a beautiful love story across time and if it were just that, I would have rated it higher, I think.

But I did have to admit, there are some parts of this (namely the non-letter parts) that, at times, bored me to death.

This is not me saying that I didn't like the story. I did and I think the rating I'll give will reflect that but I think either the concept was too ambitious for me to fully comprehend what was happening or by the time I understood exactly what was happening that I was a bit too far into the book for it to matter. Perhaps, if I revisit it on a re-read, my opinion might change.

BUT! For a book so short, it managed to tell a good story and by 60% I was able to actually really enjoy it. That's why I'm not rating it so low as i thought I might and it's why I'm gonna put it on a list of books that I will eventually re-read.