Me Before You

Author: Jojo Moyes
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2013
Pages: 416
Rating: Highly Recommend

Synopsis: They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . .

Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely 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.

Review: I fell in love with this book from page one, and that was completely unexpected. It's not the type of cover (I know, I know) that I typically read. It's also very popular right now, and I typically shy away from books that everyone is reading. The only reason I gave it a chance is because I needed a book that is being turned into a movie in 2016.

I was also unsure about reading a British book. I actually loved that aspect of it, and even found some of it quite humorous.

This was one of those books that makes you want to read faster and faster because you need to know what happens next, but you want to savor each page as well because when it's over, it's over. I forced myself to put it down so that I could enjoy more of it later otherwise this would have been a one-sitting read.

There was definitely an opportunity for the author to develop the interpersonal relationships and characters, but in thinking about it that may have detracted from the intent of the story. I didn't get the ending I wanted, but what a read. Loved it.

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