I watched the musical when I was in lockdown and it was magical. I immediately felt the connection with the characters, the story and the music. So, I decided to read the book and, I can say, that I wasn't disappointed. It took me a while to finished the whole book, I was kinda overwhelmed at first because of the length and the style of writing but it was worth it.

About the book itself, I really loved it. I already knew the story because of the film but I was so amazed by the differences. There were parts of the movie that didn't make any sense for me, but in the book explains a lot better or happens in a complete different way.

The only thing that I though it was harder to follow up with the story was, when narrator decided to pause the story and tell us about the social and economic conditions of the action. It was interesting at first but they were really long descriptions and I though that some of them were really uncalled for. It didn't added up anything to the actual story, so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the readers skip ahead this specifics parts.

I gave it 5 stars because, even though I already knew the plot I still cried like a baby. This is very unusual for me because I never cried watching a movie or reading a book. I connected so much with this story that a whole month had past since I finished it and I still think about it. I even had planned to only rate 4 stars because of what I mention on the previous paragraph but I also can't forget how this book affected me. In the end I had to give the maximum because of the emotion connection, the love for the story and the realization that I wanted to re read the whole thing the instant I finished.