strong messaging … it isn’t up to us to fix others, but to help them fix themselves. 

Interesting but also very dark… need to be in a good head space.

<b>This book would make a great movie.</b>

Given how this started, I'm surprised that I liked it as much as I did. During the first couple chapters I didn't really understand what was going on and it was all entangled with explanations about Christine's marriage and why she decided to leave her husband. Which I didn't care about. But then Adam showed up and the actual story started and I enjoyed it very much.

Before I tell you about the book, <b>be warned suicide is a big part of this book. So trigger warning for that.</b>

Meet Christine: a 33 year-old woman who has just seen a man shoot himself. This has made her think about her own life and, as a result, she decides to finally make some changes and end her unhappy marriage. A couple days later, she's walking around Dublin and sees a man (Adam) ready to jump off Ha'penny Bridge. She decides she cannot let that happen again and they somehow agree that he won't jump but, in exchange, she has 2 weeks to make him fall in love with life again. There's a lot for Christine and her self-help books to tackle, but the main goal is helping Adam to win both his girlfriend and his job back.

And that's where all the <i>fun and games</i> happens. I loved reading Christine's ideas to make Adam see the good in the little things (some of which went terribly wrong) and how he followed her crazy, especially when it came to ideas about getting his girlfriend back. It was great seeing them together and picking up the broken pieces of each other <i>because Christine, as much as she tries to fix and help everyone, is just as broken as Adam in her own way</i>.

I also loved Christine's family. I found her dad and sisters to be really fun and easy-going. And her little niece is the cutest 3 year-old ever.