Renée Reviews: Me before You.

Hey there!

Back to books. Not too long ago I realised I had officially finished all the books in my personal book collection. Needless to say this led to a bit of a personal crisis, especially once I checked my bank account. Multiple trips to the charity shop later I still didn't have any new books. This is the part where my bookaddicted friend comes in. We are basically a library for one another and at that point a library was what I needed. So she lend me two books, one of which I'll review today. She lend me 'You're the one that I want' by Giovanna Fletcher and 'Me before you' by Jojo Moyes. 

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I'll review 'You're the one that I want' another time, for now let's focus on 'Me before you'. The first bit I read was the summary part on the back. This bit already drew me in and I couldn't wait to actually start reading the book. On the first few pages of the book I had were some reviews. I’m still not sure if reading the reviews before the book was a particularly good idea but at least it prepared me for the tears that were to come. On the other hand I already kind of knew what was going to happen, a thing I started denying as I was reading the book.

Because I don't want to spoil to much I'll just show the bit on the back of the book. You know, to give you an idea what the book is about without all the spoilers I might have given in my extreme enthusiasm. 

"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."

If this doesn't get you hooked, maybe what I'm about to tell you will. Whilst reading 'me before you' I realised just how much I needed a book like this at the moment. A book with a great story line, just a tiny bit cliché, written from different points of view, really very interesting characters, and tears, lots and lots of tears. I love a book that can make me cry, not a very hard job, but crucial to a good book in my opinion. 

This is one of those books that you can't seem to put down, you just want to keep reading and find out what will happen next. You feel like you need to know what decisions will be made, what plot twists might be about to happen, etc. However as the end of the book came, I was torn. It was a tough dilemma. On the one hand I really wanted to keep reading even though I was so scared of being right about the ending (which I was), but on the other hand I just didn't want it to end. I wasn't ready to say goodbye to Lou, Will, Nathan, Treena, even the mums and dads, their lives ,their stories, their thoughts, and adventures. I just didn't want to lose them.

This ultimately resulted in me reading a chapter, pausing to do some laundry, reading another chapter, tears rolling down my cheek, pausing to go to the loo and to dry my tears, reading another chapter, and more tears falling on the pages of the book. Eventually I had to put the book down as I had places to go. Once I found the time and courage to actually continue reading and I ultimately finished the book, I was an emotional mess. Tears and snot everywhere, ugly crying involved. My bed had turned into tissue mountain. It really wasn't charming. This sad, crushed mood followed me around for the next few days. After a couple of days I have now decided I'm going to reread the book. I'm three chapters in again. Rereading books isn't really my thing so that says a lot about the book. Let's just forget about me rereading the complete Harry Potter series multiple times.

So yeah, now I'm just waiting for the movie to come out on June 3rd and I cannot wait. The movie trailer looks so promising and the movie has Jenna Coleman in it!!! (Which kind of interferes with my Doctor Who schedule....)

If you have never heard of the book before, I really recommend you check it out! If you're not much of a reader and want to skip to the movie right away, that's fine too! I'll add the movie trailer Here for everyone who's interested.

To cut myself short: 'me before you' is absolutely amazing and I couldn't possibly recommend it enough. The author Jojo Moyes, did an incredible job and she has made a lot of people cry like a baby. Lots of credits and love for her!

Lots of love (and some tears),

ThatDutchGirl96