After You by Jojo MoyesMy rating: 1 of 5 stars
Against several recommendations I received to NOT read this sequel...I did. Mostly because it was the only audiobook immediately available on my app's wishlist so I listened to it to pass the time. And it was a capital B Bummer. It wasn't terribly written, but it didn't have the same tenderness or depth or authenticity or provocative message as the first. It was a bit (okay, a lot) more crass and it couldn't decide what its message was. It couldn't decide whether to focus on Louisa's recovery from grief, her career and love life and a new sensual relationship in her life, her tenuous bond with her family, or her new teenage friend's various scandals due to her salacious lifestyle. I felt sort of yanked around and plunged into an uncharacteristically obscene world compared to this story's predecessor. Okay, so mostly the teenage friend put everything over the edge. Way WAY over the edge. It was like a contrived, campy, soap opera subplot. Darn it.
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