This is a story of two boys who are in love, but it is also a story of a group of friends trying to survive the war.

Few books have touched me the way this has, and I have stopped counting the times I cried while reading this. I have loved every character, and felt every death, no matter how long I knew them. The journey is full of sorrow, and yet full of tenderness at the same time. I will say that the last page was absolutely gut-wrenching; and here I was thinking I had no more tears left to shed.

It is not a perfect book by any means, it has flaws, but I simply did not care for them. I love this book deeply and will keep thinking of Gaunt and Ellwood, as well as their fallen friends, for a long time.