This is one of the best books I’ve read in the last couple of years and it has definitely made it onto my favourites list!!! Yanagihara’s style was absolutely effortless, the story flowed so easily from chapter to chapter that you didn’t even notice yourself flipping the pages.

To sum it up, I guess the best and most impressive part of it was how emotionally touching it was. Not sure if it was the altitude while being on a plane and being more emotional because of it, but I’ve spent hours crying while reading it 😲
The driving force in the beginning, once you get through around the first hundred pages, was the secret childhood story of one of the characters. It developed slowly throughout the book and the different points of view of the characters, as well as the changing narratives, were put together magnificently.

Even though it’s an about 800 page book, I didn’t notice the time pass by while reading it, which is one of the best signs in my opinion.

An absolute suggestion from my side and a well deserved grade of 5 out of 5 stars ✨

★★★★★ (5/5)