Its so problematic in many ways..
i think its a sequel book just for the movie fans. it doesn’t follow up any character development in the first book so i felt like characters were rewritten. i am deeply surprised how every feeling and relationship got connected to father-son bond in a very concerning disturbing way. not to mention age gaps in every relationship (also got connected to father-son bond in a freud way?). there were at least 3 different attempts to build a plot for the book but every one of them got discarded so nothing really happened in the book? very problematic disturbing and concerning book.
spoiler:
elio and oliver shouldn’t end up together. and why would a father name their second son after a man who literally ruined first son’s life?