Thank you so much for your wonderful comment :)

I'm so glad to hear you enjoyed it, and and also to hear what you liked about the story! It's always good to know when the characterization works too. Thank you for reading!!

I hope you like the book. The very first draft of the story was much closer to the book (which I preferred to the movie), but it didn't leave much scope for telling Sam's story, which needed to be told :)