Me Before You (Me Before You, #1) in Vampires, Weres and Fae!

Mar 20, 2013 Yodamom rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This book, this terrible beautiful love story, left me wounded and slightly elated. I finished it at 2 am and was so wrapped in it's nightmarish drama I cried till morning. The pain of the loss, of dreams never to come, of the Hollywood ending I hoped for. No, this story is gritty, heartbreakingly realistic and truthful.

My heart bleed for Will, Lou and his parents. Modern medicine created this level of life, where perhaps it's not worth the pain. We now have the ability to keep someone alive, o ...more

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Jun 19, 2019 Carrie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mgr, own, tear-jerker, romance, disfigured-injured-scarred-ill, goodreads-first-reads, contemporary, suicide, heartbreaking, disability

I finished this last night and all I could do when I closed the book was sit in silence. I find that this is a touchy book to review. I found myself hoping and hoping that we will get this beautiful ending that something miraculous will happen but sometimes in life there isn't a happy ending. But then again that's one side of the coin. Sometimes your love isn't enough and some battles no matter how you much you fight you can't win. ...more

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Jul 16, 2015 Violet rated it it was amazing

I didn't really know what to expect from this. After making an impulsive purchase of this book, I left it for a couple of months.

I recently picked it up because I had nothing else to read, and it instantly gripped me. In some ways, it was emotionally exhausting, and left me the way one feels after a weekend of constant sobbing mixed in with some alcohol. But I don't regret reading it, because it also re-ignited me with joie de vivre.

I think it's the kind of novel that can be interpreted and enj ...more

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