My mum recommended this book to me, and honestly just from the caption on the back cover, I wasn't very interested. But from page one, it drew me in. This story is so emotionally charged, I felt like I knew the characters. I was rooting for them, and cried for them. I felt everything they went through, and even felt like I better understood that part of the world after finishing. Everyone should read this book. It is an amazing piece of literature.