After You - Jojo Moyes

Ahh...the long awaited sequel to Me before You by Jojo Moyes. I loved Me before You (I wrote a review earlier on this book in case you want to read it) and been waiting for this since the day I found out there was going to be a second book. If you haven't read the first book then you should do that before you continue to read this review. This have some spoilers.

The Blurb:

Lou Clark has lots of questions.

Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places.

Or why the flat she's owned for a year still doesn't feel like home.

Wether her close-knit family can forgive her for what she did eighteen months ago.

And will she ever get over the love of her life.

What Lou does not know for certain is that something has to change.

Then, one night, it does.

But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers Lou is searching for - or just more questions?

Close the door and life continues: simple, ordered, safe.

Open it and she risks everything.

But Lou once made a promise to live. And if she's going to keep it, she has to invite them in...

My Thoughts:

I loved it and I want more! I was so happy to read about Lou again after few years. I smiled and laughed and also had tears in my eyes while reading this. (The same happened when I read Me before You.) It's not very often you get to read about what happens with characters after you have finished a book so for me it was nice to read about Lou again and see where she was and what she was doing after the huge loss of a loved one. Did she keep his promise to live her life? Where is she now and what is she doing? This is a few of the questions you get the answers to when reading this book. This is a charming, loving and heart-warming sequel that I'm so going to read again and again. 

The ending was great and I really hope Jojo Moyes is going to write more about Lou's new and better life. 

"Don't think of me too often...

Just live well.

Just live.

Love,

Will" 

5/5

You - Caroline Kepnes

The vampire diaries on twitter talked about this book earlier this year and I wanted to check it out so I bought it this summer. This is the first book in the You series (I think it was going to be a trilogy but not sure). It's also the first book I've read of Caroline Kepnes so i didn't know much about her or her books. I heard this was a book about a stalker and that was it.

The Blurb:
When Guinevere Beck strides into the bookshop where Joe works, he is instantly smitten. And so begins an attraction that quickly spirals into a whirlwind of deadly consequences.

A chilling of unrelenting, terrifying obsession, Caroline Kepnes' You is a thriller more perversely clever and dangerously twisted than any You have ever read.

My Thoughts:
Not sure where to start with this one but one thing for sure: this is a twisted story about a stalker called Joe. And it's so weird reading it because you read it from Joe's perspective and he only talks about her (you do this, I don't like that you do that and so on. That kind of perspective). It's creepy and scary and the worst thing of all is that I kinda sided with Joe sometimes while reading this. I also got a bit annoyed at the girl he was stalking too.. so yeah..weird...but I'm going to continue to read this series because it was something about this book that I just want to keep reading it.



3/5

Fall of Giants - Ken Follett

This is the first book in the The Century trilogy by Ken Follett. This is also the first book I've read by him. This trilogy is set through the early 1900's right before WWI and the second book that I'm currently reading is set to few years after the WWI ended and right before (and during) WWII. (Not sure about the last book yet since I'm not finish with the second one.)


The Blurb:
Five families are brought together through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution and the struggle for votes for women.

It is 1911, and the coronation day of King George V. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams begins his first day at work in a coal mine.

The Williams family is connected by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of Gus Dewar, ambitious young aide to U.S President Woodrow Wilson. Two orphaned Russian brothers soon become involved, but Grigori and Lev Peshkov's plan to emigrate to America falls foul of war, conscription and revolution.

Fall of Giants combines richly developed historical detail with fast-moving action and powerful emotion to deliver this absorbing narrative.

My Thoughts:
For someone who had enough of the whole WWI and WWII history in class I really enjoyed this book! My dad recommended this for me and after I downloaded the preview to my iPad to check it out, I got hooked from the first page. He had already told me a little about this book so I knew there were five different families and they all got connected somehow. I wasn't really sure if I would like this book since it's about the war and it's not something I would have bought right away if it wasn't for him. But here I am..already reading the second book and can barely put it down so yeah..

Anyways, this book is really good and it's an amazing story about five families in different countries who somehow get connected one way or another. I have smiled and also had tears in my eyes few times during this book and am so glad that my dad convinced me to read this. I regret nothing!

5/5

New book!

Got a new book in the mail today! Whoop!

The last book in the The Lunar Chronicles series, Winter by Marissa Meyer.

 I loved the previous books in this series so I'm looking forward to read the last one! Which (unfortunately) might take a while because I'm already reading the second book in the The Century trilogy by Ken Follett that my dad recommended. We'll see if I take a break from Ken Follett after I finish reading the second book or finish the final Century book before I move on to Winter.



Since I'm already here I wanted to talk a little about the one I currently read. I think The Century trilogy is great so far. And that says something, because I feel like I've heard enough of WW1 and WW2 in the History class and don't really want to watch or read about it since I'm not into it so much. I know what happened and all, and that is enough for me...buuut this trilogy i enjoy. I've read the first book, The Fall of Giants and had to read the next one. So now I currently read the second book, Winter of the World, and am still hooked. It's a great story and you get to know five different families in the first bok and then, in this book, you get to read about the story of the children to the ones that was in the first one. That sounded weird in my head but I'm going to write about the first book tomorrow.

I hope I'll see you soon! 

For now: back to reading my book!

Bye x