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A review by ranam
PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
"How would you ever know happiness if you never experienced downs. "ðŸ˜
This was a good read.
It' about the journey of a young widow— Holly —coming to terms with the tragedy of her husband’s death. Luckily, she doesn’t have to do it alone. While she’s depressed, down and out, home-bound, her family and friends are there to support her. While this kind of protective society accounts for some good in her life, its really her husband Gerry himself who gets her through her trials and tribulations, to teach her life is worth living. He has the creative, genius idea to make a stack of cards, each one in an envelope to be opened every month ; each one has a plan of action to help her move on with her life without him.
This was a good read.
It' about the journey of a young widow— Holly —coming to terms with the tragedy of her husband’s death. Luckily, she doesn’t have to do it alone. While she’s depressed, down and out, home-bound, her family and friends are there to support her. While this kind of protective society accounts for some good in her life, its really her husband Gerry himself who gets her through her trials and tribulations, to teach her life is worth living. He has the creative, genius idea to make a stack of cards, each one in an envelope to be opened every month ; each one has a plan of action to help her move on with her life without him.
I didn’t find this book that funny, just sweet, depressing and sad. There’s a whole cast of characters who go on romps and adventures together. Meanwhile Holly has to move on because she starts to learn the universe is not stopping for her. One of her best friends and her husband, both friends of her and her deceased husband, are preparing to have their first child. Another one is engaged to be married to a man she met at a local pub during one of their jaunts.
I was happy with the ending because she’d sort of moved on, but not really, only taking preliminary steps to meeting someone else, and only because her husband, best friend and soul mate made the request in the final envelope. It was just so poignant because she wasn’t ready to meet new people, and Ahern had a mourning , distraught Holly juxtaposed with a flash back memory of them loving each other in the last moments of his life. The reader witnesses the terminally ill man write the last envelope’s contents after he made Holly run to the store for some ice cream. I saw it coming a mile away, and hoped I was worried for no reason. It did despite my hopes; the ending was merciful to my Gothic Victorian self, but I just wanted her to be content if not happy in the knowledge that she would see him again because no one lives forever and there is a hereafter just the way there is a life here on this planet, just like there is true, everlasting love. By the end of the novel, Holly has learned that she can live her life without his physical love as she holds the memory of him alive in her heart until they meet again.