Hello, hello! How are you guys? Today i´m bringing to you this Me before you little review coming with no spoilers,you heard it right, I´m going to keep safe for you to read, next week i´ll be uploading my book of the month review and my July wrap-up, I know, a little late but i´ll get on time for August, i promise. I want to share this review because this book made me cry my eyes out and it´s a really good one that makes you get in the book, so, with no further ado, shall we begin?
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.
What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane.
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.
*Read it with a british accent
This is a love story that involves a family story too, for me this wasn't just that, it was an unlikely love story, it was more of the strength and bravery you need to redirect the path of a life that has already been decided. In the first chapters we met Louisa Clark who´s a 26-year-old cheerfully and happy person that has a really colorful essence, she has always lived in the same small village with her parents and has worked quite a while in The Buttered Bun, a coffee shop that´s closing up. So now that Louisa has no job she´s starting to look for a new one, because she really needs it, she needs to provide money to her family and she´s really desperate to find a new job, this is a little difficult because she´s unskilled and has worked in a coffee shop almost all her life.
Then, a job opportunity shows up, care and companionship for a disabled man, in other words, to be in-home care assistant for a 35-year-old quadriplegic named Will Traynor. She has no experience for care giving or quadriplegics but she´s so desperate for a job that she takes it. Will Traynor is totally the opposite of Louisa clark, and you can see why, an accident took away any desire he had to live, now he can´t do anything by himself because he can move a little his head and a finger of his right hand, if i remember well. His life was taken away in a matter of seconds and for him everything feels smaller and joyless because he can´t do it by himself. Jojo makes us feel this, how Will must feel because being honest we can't understand what he really felt not being able to move any part of his body, being so limited by those circumstances.
As the synopsis says what Lou does is show him there´s a life he will be able to live regarding all the limits he has, that he can be happy. She is a burst of color in Will´s life and the way they´re relationship develops is something fascinating. She´s there to cheer him up and show him everything i just said. The most touching event of the whole book isn´t how Louisa helps Will, is how Will helps to free her and help her too. I really do recommend this book, because you can learn a lot about decisions and how hard is to make one even for the ones you love, this book taught me so many things and left me even more, if you haven´t read the book or watch the movie, go ahead, grab a couple of tissues and read it, i swear you will not regret it, Jojo is an amazing writer and the characters of Louisa Clark and Will Traynor are amazing too. If you have read it, leave your comment down below saying what you thought of it and here are some beautiful quotes that i think will make you read it.
Quotes:
“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
“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.”
“Sometimes , Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning"
“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.”
Note: This book already has a movie if you lived under a rock and didn´t know. It is a really good adaptation from the book, it captivates everything that truly makes the book and obviously Sam Claflin and Emilia Clarke are really good actors and had a good chemistry for this movie, i mean, just look at them, they're beautiful.
I will highly recommend you to read the book before watching the movie and to carry lots and lots of tissues, love you guys! Until next time!
With love,
Ilian S.