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Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

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phantomgecko's review against another edition

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sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

My favorite part of this book might be the inexplicable title. What does it even mean?

For real though, this novel asked difficult questions. And the ending...was difficult but as it should have been.

Interesting look into British life and culture tho. Lou felt like a real person. Not personally relatable but definitely lifelike.

I always like me a retelling of Beauty and the Beast tbh.
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noooootalie's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

4.5

i’d watched the movie years before reading this, so i knew exactly where this story was going. and yet, it tore me to shreds in different ways to read it on paper.

brb gonna go finish crying about it 😭
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autumnlpalmer1976's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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courn's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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asourceoffiction's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

There's so much I can't say about this because I don't want to give any part of the story away. But oh this book hit all of my emotions. I was so glad I went in not knowing much at all; it deals with such complicated and upsetting moral issues, but still drags the joy out of every moment that it can.

I loved that so many of the minor characters got a chapter to really get into their mindset, and see part of Lou's story from the outside. It showed all the different sides of the story and made me more sensitive to how everyone felt. And even the unlikable characters (like Patrick and Steven) had motivations you could understand and nothing was a simple case of right or wrong.

Will's struggles were hard to read about and it's easy to see why he's so closed off at first. But as Lou understands him better, so do we. And there is so much humour in the book, particularly between Lou and Will but also in little throwaway scenes (the altercation with Lou's neighbours is just brilliant).

Right up to the end I had no idea what was going to happen. This might be the first time I can remember having to physically cover up the next pages in a book so I wouldn't skip ahead to see how it ends, I was that desperate to know.
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alyssams884's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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witchmoonchild's review against another edition

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emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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kyera1290's review against another edition

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emotional medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

This is a book to read if you need a good cry. I cried 4 times...
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calvinzmom's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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sarahburchh's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

Really enjoyed this, slogged a little towards the end. 

i like that will stook to his guns honestly.  but throwing in lou’s mom basically calling her a murderer at the end felt unnecessary to me? thought i guess still realistic.


overall, a really enjoyable and compelling love story. 

ps. in terms of a “diverse cast of characters” i initially said no because they’re all white, but the focus of the book is on a quadripagelic so: it’s complicated 
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