Genre: New Adult, Contemporary
Source: Borrowed
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.
That was when Lou came into his life. It was an obvious struggle to get too close to Will at first, but Lou didn’t want to give up. She did everything she can to change Will’s mind.
This whole process of changing-Will’s-mind was too heart-wrenching. I have yet to experience losing someone very very dear to me, but just by thinking about it while reading Me Before You was already too much to handle. I felt Lou’s, and Will’s family’s heartaches, their pain. Just by thinking that a person I love will no longer be there the next day I wake up — to meet me and to talk to me, that I will no longer see them — it’s just too painful. And just by writing this review, I’m about to tear up. Again.
I also felt Will’s struggle. As an artist, I’m very active in using my hands. Just by thinking that one day, I won’t be able to use these hands, it pains me. I know that I don’t fully understand the struggle because I’m not on Will’s shoes, but if I consider myself with the same circumstances as him, I’ll be honest, I might also think of ending it… Because my hands are my life, and losing them or not being able to use them is like losing my life as well. So, I know that it’s painful for Will to see himself so helpless after having a very active life before his accident.
Me Before You made me realize how precious are the people around me. It made me think of the people that I’m scared to see leave. People die, I know. And feeling the pain is inevitable when the time comes. It will just be a matter of acceptance. Ugh. Such an emotional review. lol
But seriously, Lou and Will’s story is something that I will embrace dearly. Such a wonderful story.
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