After You by JoJo Moyes - Restarting February 15th 2017

[Amy]

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.

After You is quintessential Jojo Moyes—a novel that will make you laugh, cry, and rejoice at being back in the world she creates. Here she does what few novelists can do—revisits beloved characters and takes them to places neither they nor we ever expected.

[Nur Raihan]

I might be joining for this one :) EEEEEP SO EXCITED!!!

[Amy]

I'm excited too! My copy hasn't come in the mail yet so I can't wait to get my hands on it! :)

[Noella]

Starting a lil early hope that's alright!

End chapter 2
(view spoiler)[Ouch! Thank goodness Lou didn't damage her spine. (hide spoiler)]

[Amy]

My copy hasn't turned up yet :( but you're fine to start early Noella, I'm jealous haha

[Noella]

Sorry Amy :( I hope it arrives soon!!

End chapter 5
(view spoiler)[Will had a daughter?? The only person who would know whether he actually knew he had a daughter is the mother , Tanya Miller. Somehow I think he didn't know! (hide spoiler)]

[Tati]

I'm starting early as well, trying to keep on top of all my BRs

[Tati]

6%

(view spoiler)[ they think she tried to kill herself??

I'm hoping this turns into some kind of P.S. I Love You, but that's unlikely (hide spoiler)]

[Berit☀️✨]

If this fits a category, I'm reading this!

[Tati]

it fits a few... British author and adult book are the first ones that come to mind

[Berit☀️✨]

Yeah, but am I going to get those categories??? LOL!

[Tati]

No idea LOL, but the odds are pretty good of you getting a category that this book would fit... I mean, it's a 100 categories

[Berit☀️✨]

Very true!

[Noella]

chapter 12
(view spoiler)[Dang it must really suck for Lily to feel not wanted anywhere. I'm starting to like that Lily and Lou are spending time together remembering Will and it's like Lily is reminding Lou what Will said above living her life well (hide spoiler)]

[Noella]

chapter 16
(view spoiler)[Lily is so unpredictable there are times I really hate her behavior and times where she is okay and after the planting flowers on the roof incident I find the sweet side of her. She's just been through a lot and she's actually a good kid underneath all of the anger and bad attitude! (hide spoiler)]

[Noella]

Chapter 18
(view spoiler)[No wonder Lily turns to drugs and alcohol! She's got all these bad people in her life and no way to communicate with her parents. Mr Garside was such a creep! (hide spoiler)]

[Tati]

Chapter 5 - this is pretty depressing so far

[Tati]

21% (view spoiler)[ Okay, so Will apparently had a daughter. I'm not sure I like the girl, though... (hide spoiler)]

[Noella]

chapter 22
(view spoiler)[I knew that Sam would get in trouble for pulling that stunt :'( I was proud at Lou for punching that creep! (hide spoiler)]

[Noella]

Chapter 29
(view spoiler)[I really liked the scene with the balloons and Lily's speech :') Lou's parents were hilarious hahaha I'm glad they worked it out ! (hide spoiler)]

[Noella]

Ending thoughts
(view spoiler)[I didn't know whether this book would be as touching as the first but it was pretty good at it with Lou taking in Lily and remembering Will and then meeting Sam, a guy worth fighting for and then getting her life back on track. (hide spoiler)]

[Tati]

Ending thoughts:

(view spoiler)[ I don't know, but I remember Me Before You wrecking my emotions more than this one. I liked how Lily turned her life around, even though I didn't like her at first. And that mother of hers was just awful! (hide spoiler)]

[Noella]

Yeah Me Before You was a tough act to follow!

[Amy]

This FINALLY arrived in the post this morning! Chapter two (view spoiler)[ I would have liked to see what she did in those eighteen months before this book... I mean she told Will that she would travel and have adventures but she was working at a airport watching everyone else do those things. Her family is really funny though, Thomas sounds like he has grown up a lot (hide spoiler)]

[Noella]

@Amy
(view spoiler)[I think the passing of 18 months shows she really didn't do much as she's still in a miserable state (hide spoiler)]

[Amy]

Chapter five (view spoiler)[ OH NO NO NO NO, he had a daughter?! What the hell? (hide spoiler)]

[Amy]

Chapter thirteen (view spoiler)[ I'm not warming to Lily very much. I would have gone mad if she wore those tights too. She doesn't have the right to just to go through all of Louisa's things. (hide spoiler)]

[Amy]

Chapter sixteen (view spoiler)[ that interview could not have gone any worse! (hide spoiler)]

[Amy]

End (view spoiler)[ I felt like this book was about Lou needing a man to be happy, I don't think she really has made peace with Will passing. The shooting was a little weird, everything felt a little off about this book to me. I did like Lily and I'm glad everything turned out okay for her. Lou's family really crack me up, her dad waxing her legs was so funny. I didn't really get emotional at the end like I did with Me Before You. (hide spoiler)]

[Tayla]

I'll join

[Sarah Elizabeth]

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Date Changed. Restarting February 15th 2017. Happy Reading ☺

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