Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
Author
Jojo Moyes
Publisher
Penguin Books
Genre
Contemporary Romance
Pages
481pages
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Summary
Louisa, Lou, Clark has been forced into a caring job as the café she waitresses in, shuts down. She begins the work caring for a quadriplegic Will Traynor, who is a young man, who was once full of life, but who met an unfortunate accident. There grows an intimacy gradually and an unexpected relationship.
My Review
Quite an unputdownable piece of writing. Although Lou was outrageous with her sense of fashion she was so charming and endearing. And Will, although he held up a tough and unbendable front he was like a marshmallow. The characters were adorable all of them and just right. No one seemed over the top. Although the plot had some too-good-to-be-true events happening, it was believable.
And the end, ah the end, although it broke my heart, (for it isn’t a happily ever after kind of ending) I think it was perfect. Anything else and the story would’ve been too mushy or even unrealistic or fairy-tale-like. I shed a few tears, did some happy dances, and finished the book with a content feeling.
Final Verdict
It’s going into my list of unputdownable.
Who Should Read This
Love story readers with the appreciation of emotions without being erotic!
Jojo Moyes
Jojo Moyes is a British novelist.
Moyes studied at Royal Holloway, University of London. She won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper to study journalism at City University and subsequently worked for The Independent for 10 years. In 2001 she became a full time novelist.
Moyes' novel Foreign Fruit won the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) Romantic Novel of the Year in 2004.
She is married to journalist Charles Arthur and has three children.
- Top Quotes from Me before You -
“Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”
“You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.”
“Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.”
“I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.”
“All I can say is that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world."
“You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.”
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