Book Review: Still Me by Jojo Moyes

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STILL ME
Me Before You #3
Author: Jojo Moyes
Reading Level: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Released: January 30, 2018
Review Source: Pamela Dorman Books

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes, a new book featuring her iconic heroine of Me Before You and After You, Louisa Clark

Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. She steps into the world of the superrich, working for Leonard Gopnik and his much younger second wife, Agnes. Lou is determined to get the most out of the experience and throws herself into her new job and New York life.

As she begins to mix in New York high society, Lou meets Joshua Ryan, a man who brings with him a whisper of her past. Before long, Lou finds herself torn between Fifth Avenue where she works and the treasure-filled vintage clothing store where she actually feels at home. And when matters come to a head, she has to ask herself: Who is Louisa Clark? And how do you reconcile a heart that lives in two places?

Funny, romantic, and poignant, Still Me follows Lou as she navigates how to stay true to herself, while pushing to live boldly in her brave new world.

When I read the first book in this series, I fell in love with the characters. I have never had a book make me ugly cry the way “Me Before You” did. It seriously left a mark on my heart. Then I found out that there was two more books in the series and I’m on cloud nine. I was so incredibly happy to hear that I could spend more time with one of my all time favorite heroines and that I’d get to learn more about her life after such heart break. I was not disappointed in the slightest.

To be honest I wanted more from book two and I feel like Jojo Moyes gave me that and then some with “Still Me”. This book takes off right where book two ended. Lou took a hugeee step out of her comfort zone and traveled to New York for a job opportunity and to make a life. She has a whole slew of new experiences and trials to get through. I’m just so obsessed with Lou’s personality. I relate to her on so many levels.

I like that this book tied together new people/relationships, with old loved characters. I laughed, cried, and smiled throughout this book.

I’m rating this book with 4.5 stars because it was an amazing book. It didn’t impact me quite as much as book one but gave me what I was missing in book two. All in all, it was a great book. Jojo Moyes writes such amazing stories. Go one click!

Book Review: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

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Me Before You
Me Before You #1
Author: Jojo Moyes
Reading Level: Adult
Genre: Contemporary
Released: April 26th 2016 (Movie Tie-In)
Review Source: Penguin Books

The beloved New York Times bestseller—with more than five million copies sold—by the author of One Plus One and The Girl You Left Behind

They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . .

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. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. 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.

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. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.

“I’m not employed by you, I’m employed by your mother. And unless she tells me she doesn’t want me here anymore, I’m staying. Not because I particularly care about you, or like this stupid job, or want to change your life one way or another, but because I need the money. Okay? I really need the money.”

Will Traynor’s expression hadn’t outwardly changed much but I thought I saw astonishment in there, as if he were unused to anyone disagreeing with him.

“Oh hell, I thought, as the reality of what I had just done began to sink in. I’ve really blown it this time” 

(CH. 4, pg.57)

Louisa Clark had a pretty normal life – so when she is called upon by a Job Center advertisement for what she thought might be a nursing home job, she was definitely caught off guard. For someone who liked living a seemingly normal life and liked the simplicity of a low key, uncomplicated life, she never expected to have to care for someone like Will Traynor, whose life was going to collide with hers in a way that was unimaginable to Louisa.

The more time that Louisa spends caring for Will, she shows him that there are still so many things in life that are too beautiful to miss out on, and Will helps her become more daring, and that she should take risks and chances she normally wouldn’t think of doing. Life is too short to stay stuck in a comfort zone.

Reading this book left me feeling mixed emotions. First off, it really made me think about how fragile anyone can be, and that although we want our loved ones to live a full life, it truly is every person’s individual decision how they want to live their life. We can only control ourselves and take it day by day.

If you’re looking for the Disney-type, fairy-tale ending, youre not going to find it in this book. But what you are going to find is a book that makes you look deep inside yourself and you will question who you are as a person and you’ll ask yourself, “What would I do in that situation?” I think it’s going to take me some time to get over this book – it’s the type to stick with you. Jojo Moyes – you sure know how to enrapture your readers! 5/5 stars for this incredible, heartfelt book.