Me before you by jojo moyes

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Read this book in 2 days and I would highly recommend this book.
IMO its well written, accessible and explores a fairly taboo subject.
The right to take your own life. Dealt with beautifully. Loved the characters and I know it will stay with me for days.

Thanks, will download the samples :)

Well, just finished it. It didn't make me cry at the end but it was close. It was good but not great, certainly not unputdownable for me. I really felt for Will's mother more than anyone else.

I hated it. Really, really hated it. Even more than I hated One Day

Ship of brides is good. The sheltering rain is excellent - weaves two stories together.

But last letter from your lover is brilliant- 60s setting love story with a twist.

It's hardly comparable to the crap book One Day!!

I'm taking a momentary break as I'm crying so much at it that ds is looking concerned. Only 80% through too!

Not my usual thing at all, in fact 'The Buttered Bun' nearly put me off completely.

I felt really moved by this, and I agree with the Mills & Boon comment, Will was a 'brooding hero', but I still felt involved with the characters. I think it was the the theme of choices, are you really living if you have or make no meaningful choices?

I did weep copiously because I am completely sentimental and a sucker for love. Not a read for the train.

I think the bit where she shaves he for the first time is the one of the tenderest moments I have ever read - you could almost smell the shaving foam it was so real!

him

I was aching for her to kiss him, just a peck on the cheek! Completely inappropriate!

I agree about the shaving part, but felt it was a bit downhill from there, especially the holiday part, the romantic aspect became a bit twee and I would have preferred it to be more subtle. It was certainly a thought provoking insight into what it must be like to have your life turned upside down by disability, there was a lot that would never really have occurred to me.

It hit home with me a bit as I had a bad accident 3 years ago and was in a wheelchair for 3 or 4 months. I am NOT one of those people who can cope well with things life throws at them - it was fecking awful so it must be horrific to be paralysed. I think that's why reading it affected me so much tbh.

I loved it too. I think Will being Mills & Boon ish was important - he was someone who'd had led a charmed life and who now is trapped in his own body. There wouldn't have been the same impact if he'd been average.

Agree, really loved it and although was very chicklit it dealt with a genuinely sensitive and current issue. Have read The Last Letter from your Lover by same author and liked that too.

I loved it. It was really thought provoking. I so wanted them to live happily ever after, but ended up crying buckets! I gave it to MIL to read and she enjoyed it too.

Valium I became disabled in my 20s and about 4 years ago I had major surgery which meant I couldn't put any weight through my legs for 6 months. I didn't cope particularly well with that and I think that had an affect on my feelings on when I read the book. Not being able to do the simple things you take for granted, ever again must be absolutley awful, especially when you are so young.

Really enjoyed this book too !

Can someone explain the definition of 'chick lit?' please? What made it chick lit Mrseric? I always though it was light fluffy books with no real story and very easy reading - which imo this was anything but.

land the chapter when they went to the races really hit home as seemed so realistic as it is SO difficult to get around anywhere in a chair isn't it? The simplest things become a logistical nightmare.

I always think of 'chick lit' as being specifically aimed at women - a romance focussed book, generally. There is a sliding scale, though - from the crap that is M&B up to the Me Before You type, which has the romantic story at its heart but which deals with wider, more complex issues.

As good as Me Before You is, I wouldn't see my dh reading it in a million years.

Ok, interesting, I thought the romance was second to the main story about the right to die.

I think it stopped being chick lit when love didn't conquer all. In fact, I thought the author was quite brave in letting the hero go off script. Against the romantic back drop, Will's speech is quite shocking and deeply affecting. If they'd lived happily ever after I'd have thought it was a total cop out.

I agree chickens - it was about a girl who was deeply traumatised by her past, a man who was in a wheelchair who eventually decides to kill himself - blimey, that's not chick lit as I know it!

I thought it veered towards chick lit territory at time (The Buttered Bun, the holiday, the father having an affair) but redeemed itself by not having a happy ever after for the couple in question and by the interesting but not too quirky supporting characters.

The racecourse section really was well written wasn't it, also the list of things that were just impossible to do, it also really opened my eyes to the much higher risks in terms of other medical problems that people with such major disabilities face.

Although I said further back that it was good not great, which I will stand by in terms of the whole book, I would recommend it to anyone purely on the basis of the insight it gives into what life is like for a quadriplegic.

Yes, Valium. I still have to use a chair at times, it is so difficult to plan days out etc. You never know about access, parking, toilets and restaurants. I think that it showed that the author put a lot of research into it before she wrote the book, which made it all the more believable to me.