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A gritty but hopeful love story about two struggling teens—
great for fans of The Spectacular Now, Willow, and Eleanor and Park
Tyler has a football scholarship to Stanford, a hot girlfriend, and a reliable army of friends to party with. Then his mom kills herself. And Tyler lets it all go. Now he needs to dodge what his dad is offering (verbal tirades and abuse) and earn wh ...more
great for fans of The Spectacular Now, Willow, and Eleanor and Park
Tyler has a football scholarship to Stanford, a hot girlfriend, and a reliable army of friends to party with. Then his mom kills herself. And Tyler lets it all go. Now he needs to dodge what his dad is offering (verbal tirades and abuse) and earn wh ...more
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May 29, 2017
Alex ✰ Comets and Comments ✰
rated it
did not like it
Recommends it for:
No one. (Really)
Shelves:
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Brushing your teeth with minty toothpaste, and then going and chugging a glass of orange juice.
That is the feeling I had while reading this, the bitter taste and the shudder that goes through your body just telling you that something is not right. Not After Everything felt like a hit or miss kind of book when I started reading it - it was a definite miss for me.
I put it down after Chapter Twenty One. My brain was on overdrive and it was screaming "You're not going to read on! Not After Every ...more
That is the feeling I had while reading this, the bitter taste and the shudder that goes through your body just telling you that something is not right. Not After Everything felt like a hit or miss kind of book when I started reading it - it was a definite miss for me.
I put it down after Chapter Twenty One. My brain was on overdrive and it was screaming "You're not going to read on! Not After Every ...more
I think this book would work for a lot of readers, but I just had a lot of run-ins with Not After Everything that prevented me from truly enjoying it.
Okay, so one of my biggest pet peeves are unlikable narrators, and guys I just really disliked Tyler. He is such a huge jerk! "Snarky, angry, mad-at-the-world" narrators are so hard for me to connect with, and Tyler takes the cake at being at the top of that list. He always has some derogatory comment to add to just about everyone he runs into:
Okay, so one of my biggest pet peeves are unlikable narrators, and guys I just really disliked Tyler. He is such a huge jerk! "Snarky, angry, mad-at-the-world" narrators are so hard for me to connect with, and Tyler takes the cake at being at the top of that list. He always has some derogatory comment to add to just about everyone he runs into:
A w...more
I am not exactly sure how I really feel about this book yet – I guess, I’m still trying to absorb the way the author chose to end it. Some would say that it has a hopeful ending for our main character Tyler, whose last year in high school was marred by the suicide of his mother for which he blames himself and everything in between was just a cacophony of hurt, betrayal, discovery, recovery and most importantly, love.
I loved the fact that despite the heavy plot lines in the story and the too ang ...more
I loved the fact that despite the heavy plot lines in the story and the too ang ...more
TW Depression, Suicide, and Abuse. (BIG trigger warning. It gets graphic)
This is an extremely honest, raw, and moving picture into grief, love, and growing up. I absolutely loved this story and it's one that will stick with me. Tyler was an extremely realistic and flawed main character who (despite his many faults) had my heart. I absolutely loved this story.
The only reason it didn't get five stars was because the ending (while realistic) was a bit unsatisfying. After reading several goodreads ...more
This is an extremely honest, raw, and moving picture into grief, love, and growing up. I absolutely loved this story and it's one that will stick with me. Tyler was an extremely realistic and flawed main character who (despite his many faults) had my heart. I absolutely loved this story.
The only reason it didn't get five stars was because the ending (while realistic) was a bit unsatisfying. After reading several goodreads ...more
***Review posted on The Eater of Books! blog***
Not After Everything by Michelle Levy
Publisher: Dial Books
Publication Date: August 4, 2015
Rating: 4 stars
Source: ARC sent by the publisher
Summary (from Goodreads):
Fans of Eleanor and Park, The Spectacular Now, Willow, and Perfectly Good White Boy won't be able to put down this gritty but hopeful love story about two struggling teens.
Tyler has a football scholarship to Stanford, a hot girlfriend, and a reliable army of friends to party with. Then h ...more
Not After Everything by Michelle Levy
Publisher: Dial Books
Publication Date: August 4, 2015
Rating: 4 stars
Source: ARC sent by the publisher
Summary (from Goodreads):
Fans of Eleanor and Park, The Spectacular Now, Willow, and Perfectly Good White Boy won't be able to put down this gritty but hopeful love story about two struggling teens.
Tyler has a football scholarship to Stanford, a hot girlfriend, and a reliable army of friends to party with. Then h ...more
I was going to wait to review this book until my head and heart settled down. But I can’t. Not after everything. I need to get it out on the page now when my heart is still a mess of emotion. Not After Everything shows the brutality and awfulness in people. There is so much ugliness here, but a lot of hope and love as well. Teary-eyed hope.
Tyler Blackwell’s Mom killed herself. Committed suicide leaving him alone with a father who only communicates with head games, guilt, punches and verbal abus ...more
Sep 30, 2015
Zemira Warner
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
Recommended to Zemira Warner by:
Glass
Trigger warnings: suicide, animal(!!!!) and child abuse. Don't read if you can't stomach reading about helpless animals being hurt. I have to admit, I started crying when the dog was hurt. I can handle when people are killed but if someone touches an animal I am ready to kill a bitch.
Bless Michelle Levy for gracing us with this realistic ending and 'boo' to all those people rating it down because of said ending. It's not every day you see authors writing about what comes after the fairytale. No ...more
Bless Michelle Levy for gracing us with this realistic ending and 'boo' to all those people rating it down because of said ending. It's not every day you see authors writing about what comes after the fairytale. No ...more
I decided to read this book because the description mentioned that Eleanor & Park fans would love it. Well, while I did really like it, it was nothing like E&P.
This novel deals with some really difficult subjects, but I felt that it dealt with them in the most honest way possible. Tyler's narrative is definitely harsh, rude, and venomous at times, but considering what he'd been through, it felt right. Sure, he wasn't the hero most of us are accustomed to experiencing, but his honesty about his s ...more
This novel deals with some really difficult subjects, but I felt that it dealt with them in the most honest way possible. Tyler's narrative is definitely harsh, rude, and venomous at times, but considering what he'd been through, it felt right. Sure, he wasn't the hero most of us are accustomed to experiencing, but his honesty about his s ...more
4.5 starting over stars!
This was amazing! Tragic, but holy shit, Tyler's story broke me and slowly pieced me back together. Mostly. I hated his fucking father something fierce. He was such a piece of shit, the way he treated his only son. Only child for that matter. I wanted to stick my hand through my kindle, grab his throat and cut off all his air supply. Fuck. His mother was selfish for doing what she did. Part of me really hated her, almost as much as his dad. But Jordyn...oh sweet Jordyn. ...more
This was amazing! Tragic, but holy shit, Tyler's story broke me and slowly pieced me back together. Mostly. I hated his fucking father something fierce. He was such a piece of shit, the way he treated his only son. Only child for that matter. I wanted to stick my hand through my kindle, grab his throat and cut off all his air supply. Fuck. His mother was selfish for doing what she did. Part of me really hated her, almost as much as his dad. But Jordyn...oh sweet Jordyn. ...more
I just finished this book but I can already tell the characters are going to stay with me for a long, long time. Not After Everything is a gritty, emotional, unputdownable read--heart-breaking in all the best ways.
You know those books that are so realistic that they make you love and hate them simultaneously? Yeah, this is one of those.
Thank you for realistic ending!
There are so many things wrong with this book I just can't....
Firstly, I hate how it shows that you just need somebody that you can't just stand the hell up on your own feet. Tyler lives in an abusive household, hates everyone, beats up literally everyone who talks to him but Jordyn is the "angel" who just 'talks' him out of his miserable life. Tf? How much does a 17 year old know?? And I don't understand how Tyler is also shown a good student like he literally doesn't study shit, for all I kno ...more
Firstly, I hate how it shows that you just need somebody that you can't just stand the hell up on your own feet. Tyler lives in an abusive household, hates everyone, beats up literally everyone who talks to him but Jordyn is the "angel" who just 'talks' him out of his miserable life. Tf? How much does a 17 year old know?? And I don't understand how Tyler is also shown a good student like he literally doesn't study shit, for all I kno ...more
Tyler had it all: a hot girlfriend, football scholarship to Standford, plenty of friends. He was king of the school Then his mom kills herself and he turns his back on all of it. Getting too close to people means they might find out his secret: that his father is abusive and refuses to pay for anything Tyler needs - including food. Tyler finds a job working in a photo studio and it's a great job. The only problem is Jordyn, a girl he used to be close friends with who now seems to hate him also w
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4,5
See more of my reviews on The YA Kitten! My copy was a hardcover I got for review from YA Books Central.
Warnings for child abuse and animal abuse in Not After Everything
As a feminist, I recognize that men suffer due to the patriarchy too. They are given an impossible ideal of masculinity to live up to: a guy with a six pack who never cries/acts “feminine” and who gets all the girls despite a lack of respect ...more
*Jordyn is half-Malaysian
*womanizing Black best friend
*Tyler is low on the economic ladder
Warnings for child abuse and animal abuse in Not After Everything
As a feminist, I recognize that men suffer due to the patriarchy too. They are given an impossible ideal of masculinity to live up to: a guy with a six pack who never cries/acts “feminine” and who gets all the girls despite a lack of respect ...more
Disclaimer: Do not read if emotional/physical abuse or animal abuse is distressing to you.
Now that we've got that out of the way...I am always wary of book comparisons in blurbs. THE SPECTACULAR NOW is one of my favorite YA novels and often when it's used as a comparative title, it's not right. That is NOT the case here.
NOT AFTER EVERYTHING by Michelle Levy is about seventeen-year-old Tyler, who just doesn't have give a sh*t anymore. Similar to THE SPECTACULAR NOW and PERFECTLY GOOD WHITE BOY, ...more
Now that we've got that out of the way...I am always wary of book comparisons in blurbs. THE SPECTACULAR NOW is one of my favorite YA novels and often when it's used as a comparative title, it's not right. That is NOT the case here.
NOT AFTER EVERYTHING by Michelle Levy is about seventeen-year-old Tyler, who just doesn't have give a sh*t anymore. Similar to THE SPECTACULAR NOW and PERFECTLY GOOD WHITE BOY, ...more
Oct 26, 2016
Natalie (Never trust a duck)
rated it
it was ok
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review of another edition
Shelves:
feels
Oh look, there's a piece of my shattered heart over there.
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4.5 stars
Such a heartbreaking book! I don’t often read novels narrated by teenage boys, so it was an interesting point of view.
Every once in a while a book comes along that guts you, and Not After Everything is one of those stories. The characters are so raw and honest, and the emotional frequency is turned way up in this brutal portrait of a young man whose life is so broken and finds healing and friendship from an unlikely source. From the dialogue to the description, I was immersed in this story from the first page to the last. Highly recommended, but I suggest having tissues nearby.
male povs are my absolute favourite, but this was atrocious.
hearing the way the MC talked about women in general was gross, it didn’t work for me.
hearing the way the MC talked about women in general was gross, it didn’t work for me.
Oh, what evil we do to our children in the name of love. Tyler's removed himself from everything he cared about except for his dog. It wasn't that long ago when he was alive with optimism, had stellar grades in all AP classes, was star of the football team and had a hot girlfriend. All that went up in flames the day he came home from practice to get dry socks and Advil, only to find his mom had killed herself in the bathtub. She left no note, just incredible pain and guilt, plus an alcoholic and
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.
Thought-provoking and emotion-evoking, to give it straight, this book was nothing short of honesty and authenticity. It deftly brings to the conscious mind that these certain heavy life issues tackled in the book are issues that most people tiptoe arou ...more
Rating 4.5 of 5
I should have been better prepared for the heartache captured within the pages of this book. Not After Everything involves suicide, verbal and physical abuse, and bullying, and even knowing these things prior to starting the book, I still wasn't prepared for all of the emotions I would experience. Once I started reading it, I didn't want to stop because I had to know that Tyler was going to make it out okay.
Not After Everything shows that we all deal with grief in different ways. ...more
I should have been better prepared for the heartache captured within the pages of this book. Not After Everything involves suicide, verbal and physical abuse, and bullying, and even knowing these things prior to starting the book, I still wasn't prepared for all of the emotions I would experience. Once I started reading it, I didn't want to stop because I had to know that Tyler was going to make it out okay.
Not After Everything shows that we all deal with grief in different ways. ...more
I liked this one a lot - great boy POV, very unrestrained, and for the most part, very realistically messy and...unidealized, for lack of a better word. I think every single fan of Carrie Mesrobian's books, especially Perfectly Good White Boy, which is my favorite of hers, should be picking this one up. I say "for the most part" above because there were these random things that felt overly and unnecessarily unrealistic and neat, which seemed like a strange fit in a book that was so admirably rel
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An unputdownable read! I took it down in a single sitting. NOT AFTER EVERYTHING is one of the most raw, emotional, and engrossing contemporary YA novels I've encountered in a while. Have some tissues handy, this one is definitely full of feels. Michelle Levy is one to watch!!!
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Heartbreaking and compulsively readable. Loved this book and couldn't put it down. About love and loss and the definition of family. Highly recommend.
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I wanted to like this book.
But the narrator was really rude.
And the ending left me like what the fuck.
But the narrator was really rude.
And the ending left me like what the fuck.
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“die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”
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