The Road to Hell is Paved with Good InTENtions

Through out this book I kept thinking to myself..."I want to like it, I really want to like it". And it's really not so much that I disliked the book but that it was very slow and at times a bit boring. It was the kind of story I would have loved as a movie... I enjoy movies that are philosophical, slow moving and very meaningful. The idea of So Shelly was brilliant but the execution could have been a bit better. It wasn't until the last few chapters that I found it difficult to put the book down.
This story is being told by a teenager, John Keats and it is his manuscript of his life as it correlated with the lives of two other teens, Shelly and Gordon. If you haven't figured it out yet... this is a re-telling of the lives of John Keats, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron but in a modern setting. Again, as I said, brilliant idea. I have always loved poetry so I already knew quite a bit about these three famous writers but this book really brought out the dysfuntionality (I know that's not a word... but I really think it should be) of these characters. And no matter what Keats says... it really did make sense.

You really just have to read it... and to convince you further, this is what is on the back of the book:

"I can guarantee you this:

unless you learn

to wrap you brain

around the fact 

that you

are eventually

going to die, 

you'll never

wrap your arms

around 

the less

certain

fact that

you are

currently living."