Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick.
What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane.
Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that.
What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time.
Well, this is interesting. I am not going to write much in this review because sometimes even if you liked a book, there is not much you can say which will not spoil the fun of the book for somebody else and because there is not much I can say except that I loved this book. I loved this book with all my heart. I loved how it changed my outlook of life from existing to living. From just taking it a day at a time to taking it in a giant leap. I loved how it changed my outlook on taking one's life.
Lou was just looking for a job. She had a steady boyfriend, a loving family, she was just looking to make ends meet. Fate landed her with Will. A quadriplegic who lived in a wheelchair after a horrific accident. What makes it worse was that Will was extremely active before the accident and now he was helpless which made him bitter.
However, Lou made him see the light and she brightened up her day but, sometimes even being faced with pure love is not enough and Lou loved him and he loved her. They found love in the most unlikely of circumstances. Patrick had no time for her and she was spending day and night with Will. There were going to be some feelings emerging. Thats exactly what happened.
I think this book was inspiring even though it had a sucky ending. I think we all expected it not to work out though because honestly who would want to live the way Will was living. I don't blame him. I honestly hope that Lou gets her happy ending because she deserves it after all the heartbreak she is going through and honestly Lou as well as we should thank Will, because Will taught Lou to live to her heart's content and in the end, thats all that matters.
☂☂☂☂
A brilliant, luminous story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, David Levithan, and Rainbow Rowell
Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways . . . until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they’d have a chance to remake their world.
This radiant novel from the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Sky Is Everywhere will leave you breathless and teary and laughing—often all at once.
I must say I was not very eager to read this book when I first started reading it. It took me some time to get used to the overload of thoughts and emotions that were overwhelming this book. However, I loved how the story was told in two parts by the different twins. It gives a sense of suspense and anticipation as well as mystery of what happened before to make it happen this way. It is interesting to see how these twins had split so far apart and yet were never far from each other. Never in the sense of position could they bear being away from their twin sibling. Whether it was protecting them through another person. Whether it was sneaking around, stealing stuff that was in their twin's possession, they never stopped loving each other and looking out for each which I found really sweet.
Jude and Noah couldn't be more of a different set of twins. They were complete opposites in every way. But, in a year when everything changed, they grew apart. They became acquaintances and their personalities changed completely making the other twin wanting their old personalities back and making them completely lost in who they were trying to be.
After all that they had been through, they deserved a happy ending and I am so glad they got one. I am so glad everything worked out for the better and they realising who they were and were confident in themselves. Being with them through the journey was amazing and so enlightening. This book tackled issues like gay rights, bullying, art, drugs and drinking, sex. All in one book and not even by tackling the issues specifically, just by bringing it up and making us understand how important and life altering these issues are.
All the secondary characters, Brian and the Italian sculptor and Oscar and how everything was interconnected was unbelievable. This book was all about thoughts and therefore you knew everything through Jude and Noah's eyes and that made everything so much.
☂☂☂☂☂
