This book is a must read this summer. I've just completed the book and can't stop thinking about it. It's the perfect summer fling book. Longing. Love. The chase. Love unrequited - well, sort of, maybe.

I know what you might be thinking... A silly steamy romance novel with nothing to offer me. The serious reader.

Wrong.

Aciman narrates a beautiful story - a coming out story, a coming of age story, an awakening of love, an epitaph. And it's not all the chase. There is plenty of hot skin-to-skin to compensate you for your time.

The story takes place in the beautiful Riviera (Italy to be exact) in the 1980's in the magnificent home of a Jewish family who's summer tradition includes taking in up-and-coming scholars for the summer. Elio, the Hadyn transcribing genius, can't place his finger on what he hates and likes about Oliver, the 24 year old Columbia student spending the summer with his family. Elio's father, the liberal college professor, just might know what is going on before even Elio. What entails is the beautiful blossoming of first love and all the incredibly painful feelings that often accompany.

RATING: MUST READ