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I finished this last night and all I could do when I closed the book was sit in silence. I find that this is a touchy book to review. I found myself hoping and hoping that we will get this beautiful ending that something miraculous will happen but sometimes in life there isn't a happy ending. But then again that's one side of the coin. Sometimes your love isn't enough and some battles no matter how you much you fight you can't win.
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Kleenex alert..
Aug 12, 2012
Sunflower
rated it
really liked it
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Impressive. A book that pretends to be a love story built around issues of life, death and our ability to make choices. For one of the main characters, left quadriplegic by a freak accident, the only choice left to him is to live or die. For the other, it's learning to live a larger life, or stay in the small village where she has been since childhood, trapped by an incident that happened some years previously. There is humour, love and pathos in this tale, with the right to die in the backgroun
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3 1/2 stars....I keep going back and forth between a low 4 or a high 3. I was pretty interested in the story for the 1st half then I was just anxious to see how it ended. Not what I expected and, unlike most, I didn't shed any tears. It does raise some thought provoking questions and I admired that about the book.
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A powerful book, I was feeling many emotions while reading it. You may need Kleenex....
Touche, Ms. Moyes. You got me; tears and all. But though the book pulled at my heartstrings, the characters ultimately never quite felt real to me. I enjoyed the book, in a popcorn sort of way. Basically light chick-lit with a bit of seriousness mixed in. I won't spoil the book here. A good choice for a summer read, might even work for a bookclub. I'm glad I read this, but don't feel much compulsion to pick up the sequel.
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Mar 08, 2013
Christa
rated it
it was amazing
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Sep 30, 2013
Amy 💖
marked it as to-read
Oct 18, 2013
Vesra (When She Reads)
marked it as to-read
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Feb 06, 2014
Natalya
marked it as to-read
Nov 09, 2014
Kathy
marked it as to-read
Dec 30, 2015
Kim DeCina
marked it as to-read
Apr 17, 2016
Katie
marked it as to-read
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