After You (Me Before You # 2) - Jojo Moyes
- Jul 7, 2016
- 2 min read
Book Synopsis: “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 book is the long-awaited sequel to Me Before You. Is it bad to say that I'm silently praying that they don't make this sequel into a movie? For me, this book dragged... a lot. I kept waiting for something exciting to happen. It was kind of unrealistic that a figure from Will's past happened to become so involved in Louisa's life.
I just didn't understand why the author had to write another boring book to give readers more details about life for Lou after Will's passing. Even my cousin tried to warn me away from reading this sequel... but did I listen - nope. To say that I regret every minute of reading this book would be an understatement. Each time I picked up the book, I was just waiting for the end to come. It's definitely a book that I've been taking my sweet time reading.
Seriously, the book should've ended with the first one, it didn't make sense why anyone would want to read about Lou's miserable life without Will. My favorite character is Treena, she's always so honest, blunt, and straight forward with her older sister. Not to mention that she's brilliant, and much more clever and motivated than Lou could ever dream of being. Jojo Moyes, I'm sorry, but this book just isn't for me, it was definitely a failed attempt at something that could've been so much better.
Rating: ★☆☆☆☆ (I think I'm being too generous.)
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