What is it about?
“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.
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.
Who is it for?
Young Adults on-wards
Genre?
Chick Lit/ Contemporary/ Romance Fiction
Is it any good?
Is it any good?
I didn't have high hopes for this book after hearing Jens opinion on it and I was a bit indecisive on whether to read it or not because I loved the first book Me Before You and didn't want to ruin it for myself but now looking back I am glad that I read it, I enjoyed this book just as much as the first, I had read reviews before I began this book that advised me to read the book without comparing it to the first and I think that that is one of the main reasons why some people are rating it so low. Do not compare them!
On the back of the book we are told that a figure from Will's past appears and I thought of every possible kind of person it could have been apart from this! Jojo Moyes was really clever here! I really wasn't expecting that. One of Jens main issues with this book was with this figure who turns up in Lou's life as Lou is trying to move on from the loss of Will, Jen just didn't take to her for some reason, however, although at first I didn't think I would, I did. I absolutely adored Lily for the second half of this book. She was just so misunderstood.
If I had to chose something to grumble about in this book I would say the lack of Wills parents, I know Me Before You was based mostly on the love of Lou and Will but I think his parents played just as big and as important part in the story. I would have liked to see how they where getting on after the death of their son. I also think that the certain event that took place involving Sam was just a little bit unnecessary.
I absolutely love Jojo Moyes writing style and I will be purchasing all her other books over the next few months.
I absolutely love Jojo Moyes writing style and I will be purchasing all her other books over the next few months.
Was the ending satisfactory?
Who doesn't love a happy ending...I really enjoyed the ending but I am so relieved that Jojo Moyes has decided to leave it there, some authors push and push to make a story into as many books as possible and then end up ruining it but I think Jojo Moyes has this sussed.
Would I recommend the book?
Yes, if you have read Me Before You, you just cannot not read the sequel!
Read if you like:
Me Before You, A Fault In Our Stars, Now Is Good, A Monster Calls
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