After You.

After You is the follow up to the hugely successful Me Before You and tells the story of what happens to Louisa after Will's death. 

With the legacy Will left her Louisa went traveling and bought a flat in London. Still reeling from his death, she is now living in her flat and has a dead end job at a London airport. 

The story opens with Lou falling from the roof of her building. Then follow several story lines that run concurrently... The accident reunites her with her estranged family and introduces two pivotal characters to the book: love interest Sam and Will's secret daughter, Lily. Meanwhile Lou goes to bereavement counseling, her Mother becomes a feminist and we catch up with the Traynor family from then first book. The book ends with Lou having to decide whether to stay with her new boyfriend or take her dream job in New York.

I really enjoyed Me Before You, it was one of those books that everybody seemed to love! There were mixed reviews for this follow up so it was with trepidation that I decided to read it. 

Did I like it? No, I'm afraid I found it to be very disappointing. 

The whole story was overblown, the characters all seemed like caricatures and Lou herself came across as being ditsy and annoying. In fact her character is now irritating whereas previously she was endearing... BTW how come she doesn't have any friends? Isn't that odd?

 There were side plots that seemed like padding as they were not relevant to the tale (her Mother becoming a feminist, Lou's bereavement counseling group meetings) and the comic devices were overused and felt rather awkward. 

The ending tied everything up just a little too neatly for my liking yet the book ended in such a way that there could well be a further adventures of Louisa to come... 

I usually enjoy JoJo Moyes's writing so this was a big let down for me. The writing wasn't bad but I found the characters and story to be very disappointing.