Like my sister warned me — get your tissues ready for this one. “All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine. You make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.” Louisa Clark has been sort of muddling through life — she’s dated the same guy for 7 years without it really […]
This one adds up! (hyuck hyuck)
This was probably one of the most romcom-y books that Jojo Moyes has written (or that I’ve read, anyway) and I will admit I loved every sweet minute of it. “The law of probability combined with the law of large numbers states that to beat the odds, sometimes you have to repeat an event an increasing number of times in order to get you to the outcome you desire. The more you do, the closer you get. Or… basically, sometimes you just have to keep […]
Life After You
As this is a sequel to Me Before You it goes without saying there are spoilers ahead. So stop reading this review if you haven’t read Me Before you. Are you gone now? Last call… After You picks up about two years after Will Traynor’s death. He has left enough money for Louisa to travel around Europe and buy a flat in London. He wanted her to do something with her life but her grief caused her to miss her opportunity to take the fashion […]
Secrets, Lies & Whales
Like Caitlin_D said, this one takes a bit to get going, but Jojo definitely gets her claws in you. I flew through the last 100 pages, dying to know how this one ended. “Look out at the sea for long enough, at its moods and frenzies, at its beauties and terrors, and you’ll have all the stories you need— of love and danger, and about what life lands in your nets. And the fact that sometimes it’s not your hand on the tiller, and you […]
Whale Watching for Lovers
Oh look, Jojo Moyes wrote a book I liked. I will admit that it took me a little bit to get into this one; but luckily I discovered my sister was reading the same book at the same time and she assured me it got better. Or rather that the pace picked up after about 70 pages. I think my biggest complaint was there were too many narrators! While I appreciate getting multiple points of view it can get a little distracting. I believe the […]
Jojo! Noooo!
Oh, I did not like this! I feel like one of my new favorite authors just shit all over two couples that I spent an entire 600 page novel falling in love with. Bad Jojo! No no! Jojo Moyes released Honeymoon in Paris as a prequel to The Girl You Left Behind — intending people to read the prequel before the novel’s official release. I did it the opposite way — I loved The Girl You Left Behind, so when I discovered a prequel based on the first few months of […]
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