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Me Before You
by Jojo Moyes
Weep, mortals. Weep.
I read the ebook version of MBY because I couldn't find a copy. any. freaking. where. I live in hell. In hell, you can't find a copy of the book you want to read that easy. So I had to settle with squinting my eyes while reading the ebook version on my stupidly small phone. The only good thing is when I cried I didn't accidentally drop a tear on the book and ruin it forever, I did wet my phone screen and made it glitch for a while, though.
What can I say about this book? I mean, seriously. I just didn't expect it to be that good. I read this last year and i didn't even know they were making a movie with Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin at that time yet. I started reading it, purely thinking that this book would be alright. This book will not leave me scarred forever. But it did. Goddamn it, it did. I cried so much. This is not the same amount of crying I did like when I read The Book Thief. It's less. But it's almost that much. Just... a lot of tears. A lot ... amount of them.
First of all, I love Clark. I mean, Clark, Emilia Clarke? Really? Anyway, she's such a ray of sunshine. She, literally is, the living embodiment of a sunshine. She's just so bright, positive and nice and hilarious and she's the completel opposite of me and I usually hate ray of sunshiny characters but I LOVED her. And then there's Will. Brooding, sullen, posh, and a bit mean sometimes. Somehow these two completely different characteristics match and the progress to achieve that beautiful relationship they had was just amazing. What. A. Journey.
The ending killed me. The somewhere in between also killed me. The beginning was alright. The wedding dance was simply a legendary scene. Bless.
I watched the movie just recently and I did not cry. Why is that? I have no idea. I enjoyed it and their acting immensely but it just lacked the emotion the book had, somehow.
P.S. I found a copy two months later in a used pop up bookstore at lotte mart. I SHRIEKED when I saw this really battered copy because I didn't expect to find this book in the hell city I lived in back then. I was so happy.
5/5 stars.
I read the ebook version of MBY because I couldn't find a copy. any. freaking. where. I live in hell. In hell, you can't find a copy of the book you want to read that easy. So I had to settle with squinting my eyes while reading the ebook version on my stupidly small phone. The only good thing is when I cried I didn't accidentally drop a tear on the book and ruin it forever, I did wet my phone screen and made it glitch for a while, though.
What can I say about this book? I mean, seriously. I just didn't expect it to be that good. I read this last year and i didn't even know they were making a movie with Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin at that time yet. I started reading it, purely thinking that this book would be alright. This book will not leave me scarred forever. But it did. Goddamn it, it did. I cried so much. This is not the same amount of crying I did like when I read The Book Thief. It's less. But it's almost that much. Just... a lot of tears. A lot ... amount of them.
First of all, I love Clark. I mean, Clark, Emilia Clarke? Really? Anyway, she's such a ray of sunshine. She, literally is, the living embodiment of a sunshine. She's just so bright, positive and nice and hilarious and she's the completel opposite of me and I usually hate ray of sunshiny characters but I LOVED her. And then there's Will. Brooding, sullen, posh, and a bit mean sometimes. Somehow these two completely different characteristics match and the progress to achieve that beautiful relationship they had was just amazing. What. A. Journey.
The ending killed me. The somewhere in between also killed me. The beginning was alright. The wedding dance was simply a legendary scene. Bless.
I watched the movie just recently and I did not cry. Why is that? I have no idea. I enjoyed it and their acting immensely but it just lacked the emotion the book had, somehow.
P.S. I found a copy two months later in a used pop up bookstore at lotte mart. I SHRIEKED when I saw this really battered copy because I didn't expect to find this book in the hell city I lived in back then. I was so happy.
5/5 stars.