Written by Jojo Moyes
Review written by Diana Iozzia
After reading Jojo Moyes's book, "Me Before You", I was sad and devastated. I become best friends with the wacky Louisa/Lou and lost William/Will Traynor. In picking up the sequel, I had wondered how Lou would move on in life after letting Will go. My question was answered, but I wasn't happy with the answer.
Lou is working at a poor, tiring job as an airport bartender, wishing she could just feel better and life her life to the fullest, as Will always wanted her to. She's bored with her life, she's drinking. One night, she has a knock on her door from guess who? Will's daughter he and she never knew about. What an incredibly cliched surprised. I was very disappointed, as the entire book is trying to sort out Will's daughter's life, since she just happens to be a spoiled, rude, alcoholic teenager.
In group therapy, Lou meets the uncle of one of her group members and falls for him. He's honestly one of the most boring male leads I've ever read in a romantic novel. This is coming from someone who likes Nicholas Sparks novels. It just goes to show that the best part of this series is Will. Without him, the second book is empty, like Lou's life. I was just disappointed. It was written well, because it's still written by a very successful writer. It just goes to show that certain sequels don't turn out to be as good as the first book.
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