This book (and the first one in the duology) have seriously sent me behind on my goodreads goal, but it was so good I don't even care! This is a bound Glee fanfiction, so obviously that won't interest a lot of people, but this is a BEAUTIFUL story about the way it is impossible to live our lives in black and white, that living is HARD, but that we should still keep pressing forward. Blaine and Kurt grew so much in this book as characters, and it was pretty angst heavy but all I wanted to do was crowd them up into my arms and give them the biggest hugs you could think of because they deserved it. Wow, this just blew me away, if you couldn't tell. It took me a while to read, particularly at the start, probably because its pace is a little different from the first book, which through me off. But once I settled into it, what a ride. I screamed at my iPad a few times, I think I may have cried (but I was also listening to the Hamilton soundtrack at the same time, the source of my tears is a bit vague). This also somehow avoided the "fanfiction" feel of the first one, where chapters almost seemed a bit like contained plot points because of the nature of their original publication. This didn't feel like that so much. This story is a work of a genius mind, thank you!
I started reading this at about the mid-point of the fic, so once I caught up, I was waiting for each chapter to be posted. The protagonists' world had widened from New York City to the whole United States. They had such terrible communication issues that it took some drastic actions to get certain points across to each other. That's what happens when you think someone is thinking exactly the same way you are and don't ask them for their viewpoint. The fic could get emotionally difficult to read, but it was worth it.