After You

Hello summer reading! 

And not that crappy-required-by-the-school-board reading list… 

I am talking about lounge-around-on-the-beach reading list! 

When the summer hits - I usually cruise through books! I have actually been simultaneously reading two different books… but last night I finished one of them! 

After You by Jojo Moyes

If you are up with current trends then you have either A) Read the prequel Me Before You or B) Seen the movie (which was just as good as the book in my opinion)! If not… You can catch up with my post on the book… here!

Gosh I loved After You and revisiting Lou and her lovably dysfunctional family.  But important to note: whatever I was expecting based off Me Before You… it wasn't this (but in the best way)! This book had twists and turns all over the place, suspense and a bunch new interesting characters.  

**WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT READ OR WATCHED ME BEFORE YOU**

After You Overview:

"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 embodies love, loss, learning to love again with so many mini adventures along the way! Lou is the same ole Lou but with a darker more reserved side and it is great to see how she recovers after the loss of Will. I highly recommend it for anyone who 1) read the fist book, 2) saw the movie or 3) just need a really good summer read!