I'm actually a little annoyed with this book. I finally finished this book after taking a much needed break! But now that it's over, I still don't quite get the hype of this book. It's long, super wordy and overly dramatize. We all knew how this story would end for Jude I just don't understand the 100 or so pages after Willem die. To feel the reader with misery? I thought the good highlights was showing the power of love and true friendship.