Weekly Reads: The Girl You Left Behind

The Girl You Left Behind is yet another novel written by novelist-whom-can-do-no-wrong-in-jerbear's-eyes.  As I previously wrote about my love for The Last Letter From Your Lover, and then I devoured Me Before You, as well, I'm equally as excited to get my hands on this one.  She has a great way of crafting a love story that has so many more layers and dimension than you're cookie cutter love story.

My rating:  5/5 stars.

A summary from goodreads:


What happened to the girl you left behind?

In 1916 French artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his wife Sophie to fight at the Front. When her town falls into German hands, his portrait of Sophie stirs the heart of the local Kommandant and causes her to risk everything - her family, reputation and life - in the hope of seeing her true love one last time.

Nearly a century later and Sophie's portrait is given to Liv by her young husband shortly before his sudden death. Its beauty speaks of their short life together, but when the painting's dark and passion-torn history is revealed, Liv discovers that the first spark of love she has felt since she lost him is threatened...

In The Girl You Left Behind two young women, separated by a century, are united in their determination to fight for the thing they love most - whatever the cost.

Weekly Reads: Me Before You

This little beauty came in for me at the library after a very long hold waiting period, right before I was heading to Vegas with room only for my Nook.  Sadsies.  I'm excited to spend some quality time with Me Before You as soon as I get my final week of classes wrapped up.

The summary (from goodreads):
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.

I read JoJo Moyes' The Last Letter from Your Lover, and adored it.  When Jennifer wakes up in a hospital, she has no memory of her accident, or the last few years of her life with her husband.  When she finds a love letter from someone signed only as 'B', asking her to leave her husband, her world is turned even more upside down trying to figure out who she was prior to her accident.  This is a great love story with a mystery twist!