The characters in this book don't feel real. Nor does the premise for that matter. Janica is riding her bike at 4am (or there about) when she comes across a man about to jump off a bridge. She talks him down and just happens to be the perfect person who could have saved him. She whisks him (and his brother) off to her parents incredible farm where her Dad is a psychologist (or psychologist adjacent) and can help, in their house that happens to have room for them all.

It continues in this way with Janica and her friends just being a little too perfect.

There was also too much religion for my liking.

I read up to 52% of the book and decided I wasn't going to finish it. It wasn't particularly good or bad up until that point, but we discover that Janica had just found out that her cancer had returned, and from the way the story was going, it didn't seem to me that there was any hope at all.

The story was apparently going to focus on how Janica was going to live well despite the prognosis, and how Thomas was going to love her, but she was going to die anyway. I can't say for certain this is what happens in the book because I didn't finish it, but it seemed that way, and I couldn't bring myself to take this journey with them.

I am all for stories of people living well and loving well despite life-threatening illnesses, and I am sure there is a lot of wisdom to be learned if I had continued the story, but it is just a little too close to home for me. I had the same cancer as Janica does in the book, non-Hodgkins lymphoma, and I don't want to read about someone dying from it despite living well.

Just not very good. Took me a month to get through it. Nobody is always sunny and happy, so when the main character never had an off day or minute, it just didn't ring true. Cheesy book.

Oh. This is a heartbreaking page turner that had me in tears. I wish I’d known it was about grief and death before (why are there no trigger warnings in the description?!) - though it’s not a dark, grey, morbid book. There’s so much joy and light and colour.

I do feel J was almost too perfect with little to no flaws (apart from the obvious). I also feel like the hospice was too shiny, and lacked the reality that comes with special needs terminal kids (though if you don’t live the special needs life and have never spent time in hospice, how would you know?)

I enjoyed the escapism in this book, even if it hit way way too close to home.

This book was so beautiful and heart wrenching. I’ve lost a few people in my life to terminal illness and this really hit home. Be prepared for lots and lots of tears.

Chick-Lit isn't typically a genre I read and enjoy, but You Me and the Colors of Life is an exception. This story is beautiful and moving and will definitely make you cry a few times. Janica and Thomas's story will also make you appreciate the littlest of blessings in your life. They are characters who you can't help but fall in love with and root for. I don't think there was a single character in this story that I didn't enjoy.
This book was almost a 5-Star read for me, but at times I felt like the story was too busy and focused on the lives of too many characters, but in the end I was able to see how each of them were important to the story. There were also times where I felt the characters' inner monologues would ramble on and on. Even at 4-Stars, I will be adding this book to my list of favorites.

Engaging, emotional. The writing seemed at times stilted.