After You by Jojo Moyes
You must be wondering how come someone is writing review of the sequel book first... Well, I didn't feel like review at all. However, after reading this book I couldn't stop writing :)
This sequel book is a good read. I didn't particularly enjoy it after reading the first book Me Before You. Yet it's a good read. It was really difficult to focus on many parts of the book as the pain in Lou was very much dominant in the beginning that it over shadowed other aspects of the story. I particularly didn't enjoy the Moving On Rotaruy sessions where there are many other characters telling about their stories and pains. It was like I enjoyed Lou's story so much that I don't wanna know about any body else's. I skipped through many of those parts and was eager to know what happened to Lou, what's her thoughts and feelings. The sessiosns would feel good in real movie. Reading about them was a bit boring and the reason I explained above.
I enjoyed the entire Traynor family characters including the new suprising addition to the family. It felt right knowing how devastating Camilla Traynor was upon Will's absence in her life. After all she is a mother and was the beginning of Will Traynor. I would have liked the book a bit more if her pain and what she was going through would have been explained more. Yeah, yeah the book is about the caharacter Louisa. Yet the parents are an important of anybody. So, the aftermath for them would have added value to the story.
I enjoyed the confused Lou about whether to choose the new beginnings or still grieve over Will. The, Clark family parts were alright. It was a good story showing the struggles of Lou and her new lives. How she was coping with the love she felt for Will Traynor, the man who showed her what she is, what potential she has, helped her get out of her fears. Yet, it was dissapointing to see where Lou has landed in the end of the story. When Will had said that he saw potential in her, when Lou said she wanted to study Fashion however couldn't because of her family circumstances; I had felt in this story atleast she will make her way for the studies, she will reach new skies and make Will proud of what he did for her even in his Quadreplegic life span. Dissapointing it is, that she is still stuck taking care of others.
Now, Me Before You is still the most amazing love story. There was hope through out the book and the growing love and care of Lou and Will. This book felt like more of struggle and decision making and constant pain. Yet, it has a strong message about accepting the loved ones' absence, cherishing them for what they have left you with, about their precious memories. I feel there should be another book with the transformed Lou showing her new life, new way of living it, her wise decisions and happy moods and loving life. I hope while taking care of the new family, she would get a chance somehow to get back to her studies, by some miracle. I hope that she would work hard to make Will Traynor proud for what he had dreamt of her to be. I hope Will Traynor would walk beside her in every step of her way, to inspire her reaching her potential.
Loving someone in a way to build a life with, is different than loving someone just as a patient, as a care taker, as brother or sister. There's emotions involved, however, it isn't as powerful as the one you fall in love to spend the rest of your life with. That empathy for Lou by other characters, especially by Sam, I felt was missing. So far that empathy I could feel only by the character Nathan (dominantly) and Lily. Others seemed to be just telling her to move on. May be if there would have been a chapter from Sam's point of view, it would have been better.
Anyway, I hope there is a little more presence of Nathan in the next story, if there's one on the way. And I do wish to have a third one of this book. :)
You must be wondering how come someone is writing review of the sequel book first... Well, I didn't feel like review at all. However, after reading this book I couldn't stop writing :)
This sequel book is a good read. I didn't particularly enjoy it after reading the first book Me Before You. Yet it's a good read. It was really difficult to focus on many parts of the book as the pain in Lou was very much dominant in the beginning that it over shadowed other aspects of the story. I particularly didn't enjoy the Moving On Rotaruy sessions where there are many other characters telling about their stories and pains. It was like I enjoyed Lou's story so much that I don't wanna know about any body else's. I skipped through many of those parts and was eager to know what happened to Lou, what's her thoughts and feelings. The sessiosns would feel good in real movie. Reading about them was a bit boring and the reason I explained above.
I enjoyed the entire Traynor family characters including the new suprising addition to the family. It felt right knowing how devastating Camilla Traynor was upon Will's absence in her life. After all she is a mother and was the beginning of Will Traynor. I would have liked the book a bit more if her pain and what she was going through would have been explained more. Yeah, yeah the book is about the caharacter Louisa. Yet the parents are an important of anybody. So, the aftermath for them would have added value to the story.
I enjoyed the confused Lou about whether to choose the new beginnings or still grieve over Will. The, Clark family parts were alright. It was a good story showing the struggles of Lou and her new lives. How she was coping with the love she felt for Will Traynor, the man who showed her what she is, what potential she has, helped her get out of her fears. Yet, it was dissapointing to see where Lou has landed in the end of the story. When Will had said that he saw potential in her, when Lou said she wanted to study Fashion however couldn't because of her family circumstances; I had felt in this story atleast she will make her way for the studies, she will reach new skies and make Will proud of what he did for her even in his Quadreplegic life span. Dissapointing it is, that she is still stuck taking care of others.
Now, Me Before You is still the most amazing love story. There was hope through out the book and the growing love and care of Lou and Will. This book felt like more of struggle and decision making and constant pain. Yet, it has a strong message about accepting the loved ones' absence, cherishing them for what they have left you with, about their precious memories. I feel there should be another book with the transformed Lou showing her new life, new way of living it, her wise decisions and happy moods and loving life. I hope while taking care of the new family, she would get a chance somehow to get back to her studies, by some miracle. I hope that she would work hard to make Will Traynor proud for what he had dreamt of her to be. I hope Will Traynor would walk beside her in every step of her way, to inspire her reaching her potential.
Loving someone in a way to build a life with, is different than loving someone just as a patient, as a care taker, as brother or sister. There's emotions involved, however, it isn't as powerful as the one you fall in love to spend the rest of your life with. That empathy for Lou by other characters, especially by Sam, I felt was missing. So far that empathy I could feel only by the character Nathan (dominantly) and Lily. Others seemed to be just telling her to move on. May be if there would have been a chapter from Sam's point of view, it would have been better.
Anyway, I hope there is a little more presence of Nathan in the next story, if there's one on the way. And I do wish to have a third one of this book. :)
