There is such an undercurrent of humor and sweetness, and even though you know what is going to happen – there is just no getting around it – you are okay with it. Me Before You is kind of like that, but also so unique that it’s difficult to compare it to anything else. the main character was going to die, after falling in love, and then you know, his heart will be cut from his chest and go to save his teenage love’s son or something. But I have literally stopped reading so many of his books because I could see what was happening. The Notebook? Okay, I’ll give him that one. He just can’t let his characters have a happy ending. I think Sparks needs some serious therapy, and maybe needs to buy a puppy or something. Nicholas Sparks always ends up killing off the characters we fall in love with in some tragic, heart wrenching way that can almost always be avoided. If I had to compare this book to work by another author, I would say it is most like a Nicholas Sparks novel. But even with all of my reading, I still found Me Before You unique. I just like to read, so no genre or author is off limits (unless you ask me to read Ayn Rand. I’ve read historical romance, contemporary romance, sci-fi romance, teen romance. I’ve read the slightly more scandalous authors like Lori Foster and Patti Berg. I’ve read the quickly turned-around and recycled babble of Harlequin authors. Subsequently, the romance novel featuring a quirky girl in bumblebee tights and a wheelchair-bound boy with hair that’s too long sold over six-million copies in countless countries and ended up in Hollywood as a film starring two impossibly good looking actors. But when she brought Me Before You to her longstanding publishing house, they passed, and so she moved along and sold the book elsewhere. Previously a journalist of more than a decade, she decided that full-time novel writing was her future. Jojo Moyes wrote Me Before You in 2012, after a multitude of other novels that garnered reasonably good numbers and critical acclaim, as well as a few awards. Do they have regrets? Is it just a drop in the bucket? Does it even bother them at all, considering how many novels are pushed out each year by countless houses? Does someone get fired? Yelled at? It intrigues me. Sometimes I wonder how publishing houses feel when they give a hard pass to a book and it ends up becoming a national bestseller. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase.“ …I told him a story of two people. If you prefer to read ebooks on another platform, we have pages for some of the same free deals at the following retailers as well: Google Play, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble Nook, or Kobo.ĭisclosure: Some of the links in this blog are affiliate links. If you live outside the US and want to learn how to navigate from the US store to your preferred local Amazon store, we have a blog post about that here.) (and some links may re-direct to a geo-specific location, others may link to, that’s the author’s choice. This list is for The Amazon Store and the books should be free to buy, but please double check the price before one-clicking. Get the books listed below at your preferred ebook retailer, for FREE, no strings attached.
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