The thing I liked best about this book is that it makes you believe that, even in the most horrible conditions, the hardest hearts can learn to love. At first, I fought the idea that these two characters could feel anything but hate for one another. But by the end, it gave me hope for all the other groups of people in the world who have been conditioned to hate one another because of ethnicity or religion or some other difference between them. Maybe we really all can get along! The vivid descriptions throughout Kira's Diary make the plot really come alive and the pages just fly by. It's a unique, rich story.