Publisher: Penguin Books
Pages: 369
Rating: ★★★★
Synopsis
Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair-bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is.
Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.
A love story for this generation, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?
My Thoughts
I am literally sitting here with the tears drying on my cheeks. I should probably let this ending marinate for a bit before launching into a review but I really just don't care and think I should just get all of the feelings down now.
I had heard so much positive buzz about Me Before You that I honestly think I wasn't reading it for the longest time out of pure spite. More than that, everytime I read the synopsis I just didn't feel like it was going to be my thing. But once I found out they were making it a movie and heard about the cast (Kahleesi, Neville Longbottom and Finnick Odair...seriously, sign me up!) I was ready to give it a shot.
This book was tricky and really snuck up on me. It started out pretty slow and I just couldn't see how it could be sooo good. I hated to think of darling love of my life Sam Claflin playing a quadriplegic. Pardon?! He is too beautiful to be immobile. And on top of that, how could Emilia Clarke play someone so meek as Louisa? But as the plot thickened and I stopped thinking of the characters in relation to the actors that would eventually be playing them, I was really able to get into the book.
I won't lie though, it really took me up until half way through to get attached to this book. As I was reading it, I was thinking there was no way I would even look forward to the sequel or even care about how it all ended. That all changed with the last hundred pages. I flew through them in an hour and only stopped to wipe the tears from my eyes.
It was that good. Granted, it doesn't take much to get a good cry out of me. Either way, this book really struck a chord, which in part is due to Moyes for creating such realistic characters who leave it all out on the table. With everything they both face, they grow and change and become new people by the end of the novel. The main focus isn't romance but more about life and the importance of making the right decisions.
Now I am counting down to the sequel and it seems like the end of September can't come soon enough!
My Favorite Line
You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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