“…she was a woman with a million happy memories, who knew what it was like to experience true love and who was ready to experience more life, more love and make new memories.”
I have no idea of what grieving the love of your life feels like, but this book truly made my heart suffer along with Holly. However I know how it feels to lose someone you love with all your heart and it never heals…
I think I made a mistake by watching the movie before reading the book, cause the movie crashed my soul, and expecting the pain while reading, made me not crash that much along the book, I really wanted to cry hard 😅.
So, the story is about Holly, a woman who, as you may already guess, is grieving hey husband 💔 life feels like it has stopped for her, and she is stocked with all her pain. Nothing seems to help her move on, until a couple of months later she receives a package with letters from Gerry. This letter are the only think that seem to help her to move on.
Most of the time I feel like I couldn’t connect with Holly, so many of her friends tried to reach and help her, but she was so lost in her own grief, that she pushed them away and that made me think of her as a very difficult person. Everyone understood what she was going through, but it seemed like no one could ever help her.
I wish the book had more chapters about Gerry, we missed a huge part by not knowing much about him. I guess this is one of the things I love most about the movie, we get to know Gerry and we get to connect with his and Holly’s relationship.
This book is beautiful and painful, so don’t get me wrong, I did love it, but I guess I just expected more emotion to it.
"Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.”