A very well-written, and very sad book. It did a great job showing all the smaller, different emotions contained in the larger one of love, and how it looks to lose love and gain a new iteration of it at the same time. Andrew Martin did a great job of creating the characters in this book; almost all the ones we spend our time with are neither all good or all bad, like everyone is. Some of the prose feels a little too dramatic to the point where I can't really tell if it's the narrator talking or if it's the author, but the story is still compelling in its movement and trajectory. Despite any negative aspects, I found that there's a lot to reflect on both throughout the book and at its end; I give it 4 Goldblums out of a possible 5 Goldblums.