Me Before You

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• 'Me Before You' by Jojo Moyes

  Before I explain about the story, I must say that the pastel pink cover is truly terrible. It looks so girlie and twee, and if I saw it in a bookshop I would pass over it without a second thought. (I was reading a proof edition adorned in a plain, su ... (read full critics)

  readingmatters published on Sun, 13 May 2012

3 Reviews

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  Unashamedly sentimental and why not

  This was a very easy read, and I enjoyed it. It's about a recently unemployed girl who becomes a non-medical carer/companion to a man who is paralysed from the neck down.

  The sentimentality just stops short of being cheap because of the seriousness of the topic, which I feel is pretty well presente ... (continue)

  This was a very easy read, and I enjoyed it. It's about a recently unemployed girl who becomes a non-medical carer/companion to a man who is paralysed from the neck down.

  The sentimentality just stops short of being cheap because of the seriousness of the topic, which I feel is pretty well presented. I'm not sure the analyis of a tetraplegic man's mindset is scientific or rigorous, but it's certainly plausible and readable.

  Of course, the heroine with her wacky dress sense is good fun, and the disabled hero is likeable despite his understandable crabbiness. But in a way, I found other characters more convincing: the male hero's also male nurse, his mother whose tautness threatens to break her any moment, the female hero's "Runner Man" boyfriend (who provides most of the humour in the book, bless him), her clever sister who was not quite clever enough to have avoided getting pregnant very young, her ex boss from the café, and even her parents, who are conventionally depicted as decent working class people.

  I can't go into the plot much without major spoilers, so I'll just mention a couple of nice scenes: his friend's wedding, her moving out from the parental home.

  For me, this book had a sort of cozy feel which warmed me to it, even if it's never going to satisfy the literati.

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  Hélène Wilkinson said on Apr 1, 2012 about the eBook edition | Add your feedback

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  Uk - present

  So sad and sweet at the same time, this book is mascherade as a chick-lit but in reality is quite a deep journy into very tragic themes.

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  Mati said on Mar 20, 2012 | Add your feedback

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  I liked it: it's witty, well written and it draws you in. Ok. But it left me really devastated in the end, I really didn't appreciate that.. I felt trapped. I don't know If I would suggest it...

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  Aliceinthehiddenland said on Feb 28, 2012 about the eBook edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 480 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0718157834
• ISBN-13: 9780718157838
• Publisher: Michael Joseph
• Pub date: Jan 05, 2012
• Also available as: Others and eBook

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