Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

“I realized I was afraid of living without him.”

How to describe this novel in one word? Love.

Even though at first this novel doesn’t seem like a love story or romance novel, this can be described as one of the greatest love stories ever told. The plot of the story twists and turns. And this gnawing feeling presides in your gut and you know, that Will and Lou are meant to be. You are not just seeing things. This is a love story and it is only in the last few hundred pages that when Lou actually tells Treena that she thinks she loves Will, that we can exhale with relief.

This book is gripping. A page-turner. It is one of those books which you cannot put down even though it is one o’clock in the morning and you have a class at eight the next morning. You just want to keep reading. You have to know what is going to happen next. You need to know when Louisa is going to proclaim her love for Will and you need to know if her love is going to save him. But I am going to stop writing now. I don’t want to give too much spoilers.

This novel in short: we meet Louisa who is desperately looking for a job to help and support her family. She finds a job taking care of a young man who was in a car accident and only has use from his chest upwards and very little use in his fingers. Louisa finds him insufferable, but she needs the money and his family only needs someone for six months so she believes she can hold out until then. But then something unexpected happens and she starts to grow closer to him.

This is definitely on my must-read list for anyone. Even if you do not read much, this is a must. Pick the book up, read it and fall in love with every single character.