Rating: 3/5 
 ***Minor spoilers*** 
 Louisa "Lou" Clark hasn't done much with her life yet. She's comfortable working in a cafe to help support her family, and never leave her hometown. Unfortunately for her, the cafe closes and she is forced to find new work to ensure her family will be okay, since it is likely that her dad is losing his job. Not enjoying several options the job centre gave her, her final possibility is a 6-month contract to be a caregiver - none of the intimate stuff - for a quadriplegic man, Will. She gets the job and is told to try to cheer him up and to be his friend. However, it doesn't seem like he wants any friends. He is rude to her and doesn't want her company. What they don't expect is how they will soon become the brightest part of each other's day. 
 I managed not to read any reviews, or even the summary of the book before I picked this up from the library. I went in not sure what to expect. After I got past the first third of the book which I found quite boring, I began to enjoy it more. However, I thought that it still had boring patches throughout, and some of the unlikeable characters took away from the story for me. Also, while I liked the book enough at a whole, I didn't have enough of an emotional connection to the characters for me to really care about them. 
 There were some characters who I didn't like at all. Patrick, Lou's boyfriend, was quite the ass. He was too caught up in his athleticism to remember that he even had a girlfriend at all. I found that he didn't care much about Lou, only that he had her. He has the nerve to be jealous of Lou caring for Will even though he is the one who encouraged her to take the job because she didn't want it at first. I also disliked Lou's sister, Katrina. She was so hot and cold all of the time, and had no appreciation for what Lou did for her. She has the nerve to accuse Lou of not doing anything/enough with her life, while Lou is the one paying for Katrina to go off to university. She is so obsessed with being the centre of attention simply because she did better in school. 
 Throughout the book, I thought I liked Will, but something made me question that later. (view spoiler)[ At the end of the book, Will decided to commit suicide with the help of Dignitas while Lou and his family watched. I didn't cry at this at all. I didn't cry at anything in this whole book, and I'm usually a person who cries at sad books. Even in the epilogue when Lou was reading a letter Will wrote for her about living her life without him, I didn't cry, which must mean I didn't really care about will. This is why earlier in my review I said I didn't feel enough of an emotional connection to the characters. I read a few reviews which say that they cried a ton, but I just didn't. (hide spoiler)] 
 Overall, this was a pretty good reads, but it did have some bad points about it. It was enjoyable, but some of the characters really got on my nerves. I didn't start to get into it after about a third of the book had passed, and when I was reading the first third I found it extremely boring. I would recommend you read this if only for the experience and to think about the morality of it all, but if you decide to read it, don't expect anything amazing for the first part.