It just made the whole situation more realistic, and I was honestly more gutted about Camilla’s sadness over Will than Lou’s up until the end. Lou’s interaction with Camilla was definitely awkward and stilted, and honestly, I loved it when Camilla was in the room, even though she showed up very infrequently throughout the book. AREN’T THEY PRETTY THOUGH?!Īnyway, the book for me was great when it came to the interaction between Louisa and Will, and occasionally the smattering of perspective in a different person made the book worth reading. In truth, I read this solely because it has been in my queue for a while now, and because as painful as it had been to watch the movie the first time, I ended up watching it again (I’m a masochist, so sue me), and then I ended up putting this book on hold as an audiobook for later. If I hadn’t watched the movie (in which the deciding factor was definitely the beautiful Sam Claflin and the quirky Emilia Clarke), I probably wouldn’t have rated the book as high.īut let me start from the beginning, which is the fact that oh my, Mari is reading contemporary fiction! What is happening in the world?! Seriously, though, this is as far left field in my taste of books, but then again, when do I really listen to fantasy much on audiobook these days? Now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure me liking the movie has everything to do with my rating of the book. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living. Will is acerbic, moody, bossy-but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. Will has always lived a huge life-big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel-and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life-steady boyfriend, close family-who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose. Note: This is a movie tie-in book review, because why not. I also can’t unsee Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin in the main roles so OF COURSE I bawled throughout the last quarter of the book. That's a priceless gift.Couple of things bothered me, and in the end, the movie fixed those things that bothered me. This represents the most important way that Will has changed Lou: she is now eager to explore the world without letting fear control her. ![]() In the closing moment of the novel, Lou gets up and heads "off down the street toward the parfumerie and the whole of Paris and beyond" (e.32). To that end, he leaves her a small amount of money that will allow her to fund her schooling. The letter covers a lot of stuff, but the gist is that Will knows that Lou will be a better person for their relationship, even if it causes her pain right now. He wants to make her start really living her life. And it turns out that Will directly requested that Lou go to Paris: he gave her a letter saying that it should only be opened in a Paris café, accompanied by coffee and croissants. The epilogue finds Lou in a Paris café, which brings to mind a conversation she had with Will earlier in the novel, when Will told her that Paris was his favorite place on the planet. This is a big moment on two levels: it shows that Lou is willing to be there for Will even if she disagrees with his decision, and it also shows that Lou is not going to let her family control her actions as they always have. Lou is furious when she learns this-especially because it comes right after her declaration of love for him-but she eventually relents and accompanies him to Dignitas despite the protestations of her mother. ![]() Ultimately-spoiler alert-Will decides to go through with his assisted suicide. That's the best we're going to get, folks. The novel has two endings, the first of which is a bummer, and the second of which is a bummer with a silver lining.
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