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After You By Jojo Moyes

After You by Jojo Moyes


After You (Me Before You #2)
Author : Jojo Moyes
Year      : 2015
Publisher : Penguins
Language : English
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“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...

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Are you the one who crying out loud after reading / watching Me Before You?
Are you the one who root for Will from the bottom of the Mariana Trench?
Are you the one who felt so broken hearted and denied to eat after reading / watching Me Before You?

If yes, then relax, you're not alone! I mean you're as over-reactive as much as I am.
That's why, when I notice there is a sequel Me Before You- After you,3 weeks right after I watched the movie, I have no doubt to cash in this book.

Actually, this is the few book that I buy without gave a bat eye about the cover (please, say tthat you're also disturbed by the cover).    

Louisa Clark-six months after William Tranor left her life, even this world, trying to re-find her life.An ending where Louisa visit Will's favorite place in France didn't tell anything about Lou's new life.

Traveling around Europe didn't even give Lou's happiness. She still talking with Will-in her mind, even she didn't cry anymore, but she is no moving forward. She buy an apartment in London, just because she can't go back to her old town with too much Will's memories in it. She works as servant in a restaurant at the airport.

So far, she can manage escaping life in her little own box, far from family or people she knew. Then, one night, drunk and lonely, she fall from the roof accidentally.  

Of course she didn't commit suicide, but her family didn't think so. Alive with broken hips, Lou's family made her promise to attend a community for people whom lost their love one. Out of promise, Lou's attend one night and lead him to a teenager who lost his mother, and at the same time know the paramedic that bring lou to hospital that night when she fell off the roof.

Yes, there is another person coming into Lou's life (she is pretty and charming, right?), but also the one that she didn't expect at all-whom very related to Will's past life.

Then the story flowing into how Lou triying to enter the new chapter of her life, and staying to the comfortness of her old life-where Will is every thing to her.

Is it good? Yeah, with but.
Is it as expected? very much.
Is it worth to read ?  Yes, of course

What I sorry the most is the feel that I didn't get the mourning phase from Lou's life. Yes she changes, but I can't find the sorrow. I haven't read Me Before You then made me skeptical, is the book as good as the movie? Or Emilia Clarke's acting is just marvelous that make the character is so alive?Because in After You, I barely get the grip of Lou's character. 

Yet again, it is sequel. It is very unfair to judge final book only. Reading sequel of very good first book is like doing something bad. The temptation is bigger than the satisfaction. Then the decision is yours. Will you fulfill your curiousity or stick to the previous ending where Will is the number one hero in Lou's life. 

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