Guardian Angel

I recently finished The Doctor's Wife by Elizabeth Brundage. This one was hard for me to get into. When I first started reading it, I was intrigued. Every chapter seemed to be from a different character's point of view. I was enjoying it until it became centered around adultry and abortion. I'm not going to elaborate on my views on those, but this novel was not at all what I expected. It did have a good message though: Going against the status quo can be harmful. It also had another message: Be careful who you associate with. I say these are the two messages for a couple of reasons. To start with, the doctor who was performing the abortions had threats sent to him and his family. His daughter was even marked by someone in the anti-abortionist group. He also was kidnapped by this group where they attempted to kill him. The second message is about the adultry side of the story. The doctor who performed the abortions had a wife and two kids. His wife started sleeping with a c...

I finished the novel Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. This book had me in tears at the end. Even though I knew that the happy ending I was hoping for was not the happy ending that occurred, I was still floored at the ending. Two people who never would have met in real life had the opportunity to become soulmates. Even though Louisa did not want to let Will go, she did because she loved him. This novel did have a touchy subject: assisted suicide. Will was a parapalygic but did not have much use of his arms. He was confined to a wheelchair and a life of pain. Louisa was to take care of him for 6 months. That is how long he promised his parents before he went to the facility for assisted suicide. Louisa and Will fell in love. They got each other. Will loved Louisa too much to allow for himself to be a burden for her, and Louisa loved Will so much that she let him do the one thing he wanted. I don't know how you ever recover from something like that. I definitely would recommend this ...