Name: Me Before You
Rating: 4.148962148962149 (1638 reviews)
ISBN: 9781410455307

Jojo Moyes

Taking a job as an assistant to extreme sports enthusiast Will, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident, Louisa struggles with her employer's acerbic moods and tries to demonstrate to him that life is still worth living.

Me Before You

USA Today's top 100 books to read while stuck at home social distancing From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me. 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. A Love Story for this generation and perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, 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?

A Novel

Absolutely devastatingly beautiful. 10/10 I don’t know why I keep rereading it.

Jess

Taking a job as an assistant to extreme sports enthusiast Will, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident, Louisa struggles with her employer's acerbic moods and learns of his shocking plans before demonstrating to him that life is still worth living.

Jennifer

[contains spoilers...probably] It took me a while to finish this book. I could easily put it down. That being said, this opened my eyes to the plight of quadriplegics and caregivers. Of course I knew of and had heard of people's stories about this, but this made me think about it more, so for that, I give it four stars. I did not give it five stars because I thought it was pretty predictable since I am prone to assuming the anti-happy endings of things, but I was still shocked that such a popular book had a realistic ending. Props to Jojo. No, I didn't loveeeeeeee the characters, but I'm trying to do this thing where I don't judge a whole book because of how sh*tty fake people/book characters can be. It's turning a new leaf. (But if I were to rate this book on how much I disagree with the characters' decisions, I would prob give this three, maybe even two stars. But I think that if I rated this particular book on the characters' sh*tty decisions or personality flaws, I would be missing the whole point.) Plus, no matter how you feel about end-of-life decisions, it is a relevant health issue today, and I appreciated the viewpoints/discussions in this book. TL;DR: I am definitely going to see the movie! Edit: the movie sucked. Don't bother.

Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that. What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time.

I beautiful love story of two people who never suspected they’d meet. 

Siri 

Very sweet. Louisa is a lovable character with believable trauma and seemingly normal reactions to things (I assume because I’ve never been in her position). I love her quirkiness and Will’s sarcasm- very nicely set against each other. 

Kristen Aiuppa

Julie Twist

I couldn't put this down once I'd started it. It's the story of a man who is a quadraplegic after a road accident, and a girl who is employed, by his parents, to be his companion on a six month contract. I will say no more, other than - read it.

Kaitlin Simpson

Great Read

This is a great book. Honestly the romance aspect of the story is a bit lackluster, but this story’s take on the ethics of assisted suicide is very powerful. I did not expect the story to go the way it did. It’s well down, and it’s a great philosophical read.

Cole Stoots

Taking a job as an assistant to extreme sports enthusiast Will, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident, Louisa struggles with her employer's acerbic moods and learns of his shocking plans before demonstrating to him that life is still worth living. By the author of The Last Letter from Your Lover.

chloe rae

I don't believe I have ever been so emotionally effected by a novel before. This book made me sob. This book tore my heart out. The last two chapters I had blurry vision and snot running down my face. I've cried at books before but never like this. This book was a whole new experience.
Honestly, I started out not really enjoying this story. I found the characters ok, and the situation different but nothing was really holding my attention. There's so much hype around this book and I kept thinking "Oh, great. I'm not going to like this." But I kept reading and suddenly, without me even really noticing, I got invested. COMPLETELY invested. It became harder and harder to put the book down and it was consuming. I knew how it was going to end (I think most people do) but I had to read for myself.
The way Jojo just effortlessly weaved this story together with such amazingly real and different characters is incredible. This is one of the best love stories I've ever read. And it makes you think about so many different things.
What a love story. GO READ THIS.

Maui S.

Deepika Ramesh

Although I thought this could have been a lot deeper, I still liked it. 

And, will I be judged if I confess that the trailer seems better than the book? :)

http://worncorners.com/2016/02/11/me-...

Kristy Donasco

** spoiler alert **
           One of my favorite books under romance.

I can see a bit of Will's reasoning behind his decision. I've been sick before and it sucks. It affects not only your physical but mental as well. That constant pain, and constant worry of what comes next wears a person down. My sickness wasn't even in any percent of what a man like him who ended up as a quadriplegic would feel. It only feels remotely better again when one shows signs of recovery or the doctor says "great news!" But there will never be no great news for Will. He was only getting worse.

But still, I hurt for Louisa so bad. How draining and anxiety-inducing were those six months? She was stronger and way persevering than she'll ever give herself credit.

My mind sometimes drift to what ifs. What if they met when Will didn't get the accident, or if somehow recovered? or.. and then I stop myself because I feel like they wouldn't have loved as fiercely and be so connectedly entertwined if they didn't meet at such circumstance and at such timing. As Will had said, he was "an arse" back then. And Louisa have always closed herself to feel safe after her traumatic experience at the maze. Their lives, albeit being almost neighbors their entire lives, were continents apart.

But so long as I've read their enigmatic chemistry, I will always be on that tightrope between What ifs and what already happened.

I just want to see them both in Paris... 

My score is around 4 to 4.5 just because sometimes, Jojo Moyes's writing can be too much. This is regards with how she describes so many things in between dialogues. I don't know... I just feel like that bit could've been more polished.

Till we meet again, Louisa Clark. And Will Traynor, I know you are now at peace.

Me Before You

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