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A review by kamrynkoble
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
5.0
I'll be interested to see if I can actually write this review while I'm still heaving sobs. What I wouldn't give to hand this over to those delightful cynics who are sick of novels glorifying any sort of illness or disability.
I loved this book. I devoured it with reckless abandon, reading hundreds of pages in one sitting even though it's not my typical "type." It's the kind of book that will stick with you, truly, as the person who recommended it to me promised it would be.
Despite the fact that I'm still sobbing like a sniveling child, let's get on with the actual reviewing.
At first I was weary. It seemed cliché, the type of book you might read on Wattpad. A girl with an ordinary, boring life (+mean boyfriend, the foil for our dashing hero-to-be) and one quirky trait meets a disabled person who radically changes their whole existence in a couple of months. Mind you, said disabled man used to be a rich, selfish playboy who's turned upside down in a car accident. I though I had the premise down, a Fault in Our Stars + Twilight with older characters, and more wheelchairs and catheter-changing; however, despite this, it was radical. Funny, interesting, the type of mastery that seems to be so rare in modern realistic fiction.
The characters were archetypes. I'll be the first to say it. But aren't archetypes there for a reason? Despite it's typical set-up, it truly has changed the way I look at the world and the people I'm surrounded with. Not to mention it's a gripping page-turner, thoroughly entertaining.
I won't lie, my little (slightly book snobbish) heart did not enjoy carrying around a novel with an embracing couple on the front. Despite this, the title, and the cheesy quotes you might see, this is not a romance. There's love found in unexpected places, but when boiled down, the themes are of life, morality, and choices.
In conclusion, I knew my heart was going to be wrenched out and tossed in the ground but I'll be rereading it soon. What a truly beautiful story.
I loved this book. I devoured it with reckless abandon, reading hundreds of pages in one sitting even though it's not my typical "type." It's the kind of book that will stick with you, truly, as the person who recommended it to me promised it would be.
Despite the fact that I'm still sobbing like a sniveling child, let's get on with the actual reviewing.
At first I was weary. It seemed cliché, the type of book you might read on Wattpad. A girl with an ordinary, boring life (+mean boyfriend, the foil for our dashing hero-to-be) and one quirky trait meets a disabled person who radically changes their whole existence in a couple of months. Mind you, said disabled man used to be a rich, selfish playboy who's turned upside down in a car accident. I though I had the premise down, a Fault in Our Stars + Twilight with older characters, and more wheelchairs and catheter-changing; however, despite this, it was radical. Funny, interesting, the type of mastery that seems to be so rare in modern realistic fiction.
The characters were archetypes. I'll be the first to say it. But aren't archetypes there for a reason? Despite it's typical set-up, it truly has changed the way I look at the world and the people I'm surrounded with. Not to mention it's a gripping page-turner, thoroughly entertaining.
I won't lie, my little (slightly book snobbish) heart did not enjoy carrying around a novel with an embracing couple on the front. Despite this, the title, and the cheesy quotes you might see, this is not a romance. There's love found in unexpected places, but when boiled down, the themes are of life, morality, and choices.
In conclusion, I knew my heart was going to be wrenched out and tossed in the ground but I'll be rereading it soon. What a truly beautiful story.