Title: After You

Author: Jojo Moyes

Genre: Contemporary

Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books

Format: Hardcover  

Pages: 352

Rating: 4/5 stars

*Warning: Mature Content. Parents please be advised *

Synopsis (Goodreads):

 

“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.

 

Review:

 

It was so great to be back with Lou! She’s such a loveable character that you instantly feel a connection with her.

The book takes place 18 months after the first book. Lou is struggling to cope with her loss, and she tries a number of different things to try and move on. But she is still stuck in her boring life, and she feels like she isn’t doing a good job of living. Then someone from Will’s past pops up and opens a whole new can of worms. I’m not going to say anything more about the plot in fear of spoilers, but a number of crazy things happen!

One thing I love about Moyes is she writes seamlessly about controversial issues and makes you really think about them. She also has the talent of making you laugh and cry at the same time, which is something I value in an author.

Also, apparently there’s a third book coming out in January?? So exciting!

Happy reading!