After You Published by Penguin Books Also in this series: Me Before You
by Jojo Moyes
Series: Me Before You #2
on July 19, 2016
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Romance, Women's Fiction, Chick-Lit
Pages: 352
Source: Borrowed, Libby
Format: eBook
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Also by this author: Me Before You
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ISBN: 0143108867
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me.
“You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. But I hope you feel a bit exhilarated too. Live boldly. Push yourself. Don’t settle. Just live well. Just live. Love, Will.”
How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living?
Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can’t help but feel she’s right back where she started.
Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the Moving On support group, who share insights, laughter, frustrations, and terrible cookies. They will also lead her to the strong, capable Sam Fielding—the paramedic, whose business is life and death, and the one man who might be able to understand her. Then a figure from Will’s past appears and hijacks all her plans, propelling her into a very different future. . . .
For Lou Clark, life after Will Traynor means learning to fall in love again, with all the risks that brings. But here Jojo Moyes gives us two families, as real as our own, whose joys and sorrows will touch you deeply, and where both changes and surprises await.
This one wasn’t as much of a win for me as the previous in the series.
I feel like Louisa wasn’t even the same Louisa. Part of that, I know, was because of her grieving… But, I also feel like she was overshadowed by some of the other characters.
This one didn’t have the same charm and feeling as Me Before You, but I will still be reading the last in the series soon.
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About Jojo Moyes
Moyes studied at Royal Holloway, University of London. She won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper to study journalism at City University and subsequently worked for The Independent for 10 years. In 2001 she became a full time novelist.
Moyes' novel Foreign Fruit won the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) Romantic Novel of the Year in 2004.
She is married to journalist Charles Arthur and has three children.
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This was my lowest rated book of the series, but still solid (3.5). After reading all three books, I do think it was a necessary part of Lou’s journey, even if it was a bumpy ride. I promise the third book makes up for it.
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Well, that makes me feel better. I’m starting it soon, so I’m hoping I love it!
I only watched the movie, but I do not intend to watch or read any sequence. It’s one of those stories that was great but I think anything else would just spoil it ;).
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I get that! The movie was actually really good. I don’t normally feel that way about book-to-movie adaptations. 😉
Not all books can be full-on winners but 4 stars is good too!
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Totally agree! 🙂
This one didn’t really feel right to me. I am glad that you did mostly find it enjoyable, though. 🙂
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I actually completely understand where you’re coming from. I’m hopeful that the last one with make up for it!
I haven’t read the series but most of my friends who did said the same thing. There’s a 3rd book??
Karen @ For What It’s Worth
Yes! And I’ve heard that it’s better that the second! *fingers crossed*