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 … 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.
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This one wasn’t quite as good as the first one and the third but still very good.
Just read it! You will LOVE IT!
This is the sequel. Be sure to read “Me Before You first. Excellent story.
Sequel to Me Before You, although different flavor and feel to first one I liked it but then I love the main character.
I didn’t think this was as good as the other JoJo Moyes books I’ve read. disappointing.
After You by Jojo Moyes is the second book in her series, Me Before You . This is the story of Louisa Clark and her life AFTER Will Traynor. It is refreshingly nowhere near as heartbreaking as as it’s predecessor, Me Before You, and picks up after Lou’s time in Paris AFTER Switzerland and (view spoiler).
The book quite literally begins with a bang (or crash?) with Louisa taking a bad fall and being collected by the paramedics. Intense and sad when we see just how (view spoiler). Once she is out of the hospital her parents insist she go to a support group for grieving people and she reluctantly agrees. Then, a teenager named Lily shows up on her doorstep with a surprising revelation and Louisa’s life is embroiled in Lily’s teenage drama. Then, she meets the paramedic that helped piece her back together after her fall and finds him just as wonderful as he was the night he saved her. Things are slowly turning around for Lou and she doesn’t feel like she is letting Will down as much. But this is just the calm before the storm and while she tries to move on with Sam, can he deal with hr still painfully mourning Will? Can Lily ever get ehr head around her family issues and can Lou help her or is she just a punching bag for this hormonal teen with, rightly so, abandonment issues.
People looking for another heartbreak like Me Before You will be sorely disappointed. This is Lou’s life moving on from that epic romance/tragedy. Why anyone would want to put her through something like losing Will a second time is beyond me. The story is intriguing and entertaining and no less Louisa Clark than the first book but it is MUCH more lighthearted (in comparison). Up next, Still Me. Enjoy!
I loved this, Until you lose someone you don’t know the range of emotions you go thru. Will’s death had such an impact on Lou.
Zero stars
Not as good as Me Before You but I still enjoyed it.
Having really enjoyed Me Before You, in spite of its sad and controversial nature, I wanted to read the sequel and had friends tell me that they liked it even better than the first, or that it helped bring them closure to the first. Well, I’m not sure I liked it more than the first, but I will say that they were fairly equal. There is still a sad nature to this book, simply based on the contents of the previous one. But the overall outlook of this book vs the first is much more hopeful. Lou seems to be struggling as we start, but through the course of the story, she finds out she’s capable of more than she thought and she begins to attempt to move on and to understand that, while difficult, moving on will not diminish what she had, nor be a betrayal. It’s a story about how grief evolves over time, and how while you might always miss someone and feel that loss on a daily basis, it does get easier to live with. I was especially pleased with the developments that helped the Traynors to have something to help them move on as well. And I loved that Lou and Nathan were still in contact with each other. In the first, I found Lou’s sister to be annoying and judgmental…I still felt that way in this book, but I also felt I understood her a bit better too. All in all, I found the book to be very honest and moving and felt a connection to the characters.
not as good as Me Before You
A wonderful, moving, unforgettable sequel to Me Before You.