After You by Jojo Moyes

“’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.”

This post may contain spoilers. Read at your own risk!

After finishing the first book of this trilogy, Me Before You, I was super excited to start this one. I was so curious how they were going to continue this story. We continue this story with Louisa Clark. This takes place after Will Traynor ended his life and now Louisa has to learn how to live without him. She was in love with him and now she feels like her life has no meaning. Since she was with him in Switzerland when it happened, she is now looked at different. Her parents have different feelings and are not happy with her that she helped with his suicide. The people all around the city have also looked at her poorly, as well as Will’s parents. She now works as a waitress at a restaurant at the airport. She doesn’t think much about her life and feels like there are parts missing. Unbeknown to her, Louisa is about to have a special person enter her life who will change everything for her.

I was really involved in this story from the beginning. Jojo Moyes does a nice job of really making the reader feel invested in the life of Louisa. There were times that I cried with her and others that I was overjoyed. I started my journey in the previous book and have just continued to walk in the footsteps of Louisa Clark.

If you liked Me Before You then I would highly recommend this book. It is a great continuation and will have you on the edge of your seat wanting to read more! I am looking forward to finishing up the trilogy with Still Me. Keep an eye out for that review coming in the near future!