This is the story of Gerry and Holly. It is a love story where Gerry helps and guides his wife, Holly to move on with her life after he is gone. Usually, i don't like stories where 2 people in love are separated but in this one, they tell us that life goes on, even after the love of your life goes away and not as a drudgery but with more maturity and more meaning.
The narration is very interesting and engaging. The end or the moral doesn't matter, you are just so inspired to turn page after page. One of the examples that showcases Cecelia Ahern's skillful writing is the different ways in which she lets us in on the content of the 10 letters for Holly. From a chick-lit, you expect and don't even mind, run-of-the-mill stuff presented in a mediocre way, but this one has raised the bar.
Initially, i was a little disappointed with the first letter, both length-wise and content-wise but gradually its significance registered and the affinity kept growing after that. Through the 10 letters, Gerry lives with Holly and strengthens her to carry on with the rest of her life, to find love, to overcome her biggest fear and to begin living life as it is meant to be lived.
No overtly flowing emotions, no victimising oneself. Holly's relationship with her friends and family members, her acquired matured outlook, her jealousy and disconnect with the development in her friends' lives, it is all real and very convincingly presented.
i like the fact that Holly doesn't just jump into another relationship after Gerry asks her to. She takes her time and makes herself completely ready for it.
There are just a few discrepancies here and there. But, i think they are all quite forgivable and not worth mentioning, simply so that it shouldn't dilute the merit that this book holds.
Truly, it is a book worth reading. For all people out there in love and some few who think, love makes you weak, find out how love is but a constant source of strength.
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