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Feels extremely mean to give it a 3⭐️ but it’s not quite a 4⭐️ so like a 3.7-3.8? It is written in a beautiful very immersive way, I loved the dialogue and the intensity of Elio’s emotions. Loved the whole thing about them becoming each other and that their true lives were only with each other but I kind of feel that the ending was more emotional and done a bit better in the movie.

I feel like what I like the most about this book is the atmosphere and just imagining that I am in Italy, in the summer with someone young that loves me in this kind of senseless simple way and that whole thing about bare skin I don’t know I just sounds like a dream. Also the way this book is written is just so beautiful and i like how it incorporates other things and greek mythology, it gives it a sort of light

I almost died when he confessed to Oliver, literally felt like I couldn’t breath out of stress even though I know how this is going to end. Things didn’t feel half as intense in the movie. But I also don’t get how Oliver understood him cause Elio was soo damn vague about the whole thing, I would have never gotten it

The way this is written is by far my favorite part. Just the freaking emotions of it and right now what feels like a hopeless all consuming crush. Some of the lines or paragraphs have literally taken my breath away and I wish I could highlight the living hell out of this book