Me Before You (Me Before You Trilogy)
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes, 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?
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Community Reviews
I first heard about this book from women in a little online group I'm part of, and I wasn't sure what to make of it. Another friend of mine had seen the movie trailer and told me she already started crying just watching that and encouraged me to sneak a peek. I admit: the premise, the snippets, the sneaking suspicion I had that this story would be dealing with a woman who falls in love with a man contemplating ending his life after I heard the ominous line of "I promised them six months." Nevertheless, the trailer moved me to being teary-eyed and so I kept the book in the back of my mind, filed under "maybe I'll read this..."
And now I've got a bit of time, so I have. It was beautiful. It was tragic. It left me gutted, aching, and wrestling with some hard questions. The author, whom I have not read before, tackles very sensitive topics like assisted suicide, the disabled, and the complexities of love so artfully. I found myself laughing at times, crying at others, and all along the way, I found the characters and their reactions relatable and believable.
Will Traynor is a 35-year-old man who lived what he calls a "big life." He was a hotshot, making money and living up an adventurous sort of life when an accident takes the life he knew and twists it into the unexpected, and for Will, the unacceptable. Suddenly a quadriplegic, he is bound to a wheelchair, entirely reliant on both modern medicine and the assistance of others to do every small, simple thing.
Louisa "Lou" Clark is a 26-year-old woman who really starts the novel off as a girl. She's described as an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life, which she likes just fine, thankyouverymuch. She takes a job as Will's caretaker/companion for the money, since her family relies on her financially (though they don't seem to regard her much highly for nearly anything else). For her, this tale is something like a coming of age story as she really develops into her own person. Her transformation from someone living a small life into someone willing to embrace it, even as she must try to convince her charge that life--changed though it may be--is worth living.
This is the sort of story, that if you let it into your heart, can pierce you and broaden your scope as your mind begins to contemplate the questions posed here. Or, it can simply be a really touching emotional journey to follow. In either case, the writing is lovely, the characters breathe and jump to life on the page and it's probably going to be a story that will stay with me all year because it forces the reader to consider quality of life, assisted suicide, and what does it mean to love and support someone even when what they want is in direct opposition to what you would want. I couldn't put down and ended up finishing this book in 3 days... and I haven't been held captive by another novel like this since Mockingjay was released...
And now I've got a bit of time, so I have. It was beautiful. It was tragic. It left me gutted, aching, and wrestling with some hard questions. The author, whom I have not read before, tackles very sensitive topics like assisted suicide, the disabled, and the complexities of love so artfully. I found myself laughing at times, crying at others, and all along the way, I found the characters and their reactions relatable and believable.
Will Traynor is a 35-year-old man who lived what he calls a "big life." He was a hotshot, making money and living up an adventurous sort of life when an accident takes the life he knew and twists it into the unexpected, and for Will, the unacceptable. Suddenly a quadriplegic, he is bound to a wheelchair, entirely reliant on both modern medicine and the assistance of others to do every small, simple thing.
Louisa "Lou" Clark is a 26-year-old woman who really starts the novel off as a girl. She's described as an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life, which she likes just fine, thankyouverymuch. She takes a job as Will's caretaker/companion for the money, since her family relies on her financially (though they don't seem to regard her much highly for nearly anything else). For her, this tale is something like a coming of age story as she really develops into her own person. Her transformation from someone living a small life into someone willing to embrace it, even as she must try to convince her charge that life--changed though it may be--is worth living.
This is the sort of story, that if you let it into your heart, can pierce you and broaden your scope as your mind begins to contemplate the questions posed here. Or, it can simply be a really touching emotional journey to follow. In either case, the writing is lovely, the characters breathe and jump to life on the page and it's probably going to be a story that will stay with me all year because it forces the reader to consider quality of life, assisted suicide, and what does it mean to love and support someone even when what they want is in direct opposition to what you would want. I couldn't put down and ended up finishing this book in 3 days... and I haven't been held captive by another novel like this since Mockingjay was released...
Fuck this book. It was so good and I started to feel really nervous when I had 25 pages left and Will was still off to Switzerland. I started losing hope. Then Lou traveled there and it gave me hope again. My naïveté kept me thinking all was well in the end. Until I read the epilogue. I'm so mad but I think that's what the author wants. To make us feel how Lou feels. So so mad. But it was so good. DAMMIT.
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