Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov.

Oooh. This book !!!

I could talk about it for weeks, months, and years if needed. 

I read it so many times...

Lolita was written by Vladimir Nabokov, a Russian and American novelist. 

The plot is not the greatest of all time. It is problematic and controversial. A middle-aged man obsessed with a 12-year-old, that is in fact his step-daughter, is not a plot you would want to read every day...

The writing behind Lolita is reminiscent of a love letter turned novel. Nabokov's writing takes on a beautiful, lyrical story that oozes romanticism. Lolita conveys the feeling of an infatuation that is so full of passion and longing that the reader can't help but be emotionally moved and recall their own past infatuations, how when one is so captivated by another, everything and anything becomes beautiful. 

Although I mentioned that Lolita is a love letter turned into a novel, it is not a love story. Lolita deals with an abusive relationship, but it's not pervasive and that's important.

Lolita is a novel that readers should peruse because it is an example of how abusive people in relationships are not always these obviously bad monsters, but endearing seducers who seek to exploit the sympathy of others. 

The genius of Nabokov's Lolita is that he forces the perceptive reader to empathize with a monster, to see them as flawed human victims of their blind love, and then to acknowledge that Humbert Humbert is indeed this horrible individual. This conclusion, however, is not actually shared by all the readers. Some are so taken with Humbert Humbert that they still regard Lolita as a love story.

Lolita demonstrates that some of the ugliest truths are concealed by the most gorgeous lies.