On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

I wanted so badly to love this book. I've seen rave reviews, I LOVE the title and cover, the synopsis sounded good. But I didn't love it. Honestly, it tried so hard to be beautiful and poignant and literary that it kind of became the opposite. It ended up being torturously slow and descriptive. In the end, I felt like I ~should~ be devastated or overwhelmed with emotion but I was just left lacking any feeling at all. It's like the author tried so hard to sound poetic and beautiful that they forgot there was supposed to be a plot. And it's disappointing because it's not like it's not beautiful writing. It is. It has the potential to be amazing, but unfortunately it was not. And I'm really sad about that. 2.5/5 stars.