Before You, by Amber Hart, is a book based on a love that is based on hope, hope is what keeps them together through everything and it’s what helps them live their lives together taking off each others masks. Faith and Diego are very different people yet so alike. Being from from different roots and different worlds they both know, they don’t have a chance. Diego’s perseverance lures Faith into his world, and Faith’s mask which Diego can see through intrigues Diego to figure out the real her, something that no one except her best friend Melissa has done. Diego acts like a tough guy outside, having a dark secret that has haunted him from Cuba to the States. Like Faith, who hides a past that no one knows about. Without imagining it, her and Diego have more in common than they thought.

Diego’s care slowly breaks down Faith’s walls letting him see parts of her that she doesn’t let anyone see. Shes dumbfounded. How could it be possible that this guy breaks down her walls? Diego also figures out that Faith isn’t just another guy. Shes special. Together they let each other explore their worlds, letting each other in. Hope, something that they both see in each other. This reminds me a lot of the real world. As humans we have that desperate need to search for something in someone else, sometimes it’s love, because some of us need someone to love us because we can’t love ourselves. In this case it’s hope. It’s like the air, you can’t see it but you can feel it. Together the felt that hope, and by reading it I even felt that hope, the sense of need they had for each other.

I think the way the story shifted in the end was very unpredictable. I for one did not expect the book to end the way it did,  thought it was going to be another happily ever after. But the way things ended, it felt unfinished like there needed to be more. I think that’s the only thing I didn’t appreciate about the book, I felt a void at the end, but happy to see them together. I wish it was the same in real life.