Book Review: Me Before You
George Carlin said: “The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. Life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death! What’s that, a bonus?” That being said, when you read “Me Before You” by Jojo Moyes, you won’t agree less to the quote. Me Before You is the story of Louisa Clark and Will Traynor, two different persons with completely different personalities. While they know quite a lot of things about their lives, neither of them knows that they’re going to change the other for all time. Lou Clark is forced to take the job of looking after a quadriplegic, Will Traynor, for six months when she loses her job at The Buttered Bun. As if being shoved up against Will’s tantrums and keeping up with his basic routines and being catapulted into a whole new life wasn’t already difficult enough for Lou, a bomb drops on her when she overhears Will’s mother and sister talking about Will’s wish for euthanasia and realizes that it was W...