Have readers ever seen howruns the squirrel in the wheel? The mechanism, while remaining motionless, does not cause anybody's interest. But if the squirrel begins to move, the wheel starts spinning, and with each turn, intrigue develops more and more. Twisting the wheel faster and faster, the runner entertains herself and at the same time gives pleasure to those who are watching her. Approximately by this principle, the narrative in the new book of Jojojo Moyes "After You" is constructed. Readers' comments state that there is nothing wrong with this. But nevertheless, as they assure, this writing style tends to wear out over time. Like running squirrels in the wheel.
"After You" Jojo Moyes: Feedback
The novel, released in the spring of 2015, interestedmany. By and large, readers were mostly excited about the question: why? Why was the book After You written by Jojo Moyes? Readers' comments (very many) contain the statement that it was possible to do without it. And even more so. Many people find it unnecessary to write "After You" by Jojo Moyes. Reviews of the novel claim that the book, which was a continuation of the favorite "Before Meeting You", not only disappointed in itself, but also introduced a certain negative moment in the perception of the first work.
"After you", author - Jojo Moyes: reviews about the novel, biography of the writer
Users of networks that at first ranked themselves asadmirers of the writer's creativity, began to speculate: why did this book originate, if the first contains, in their opinion, an entirely finished plot that does not require continuation?
Many readers condemned the publication of the book by Jojo Moyes"After you". Customer feedback suggests that the writer just wanted to earn some money by writing a mediocre sequel to a fairly successful first book. She sacrificed art for the sake of gain. So characterize the author of the novel "After You", Jojo Moyes, reviews.
Puzzled readers and the desire to understand themotives that prompted the writer to create an unnecessary and unsuccessful continuation of the beloved book "Until We Meet You", intensified interest in the personality and life of the author of both works.
Who is she?
This question is answered by the readers themselves.Creativity Moyes before the release of the last book had some success in the circles of experts in the ladies' novel. On the life of the author "After you" Jojo Moyes, the reviews tell the following.
The future English writer and journalistwas born in 1969 in London. Here passed her childhood and youth. Jojo had to try many professions before she chose a career for the writer: she drove a taxi, dialed Braille, wrote tourist brochures, and studied at the University College in London. Since 1992 Moyes is engaged in journalism - writing for the English leading newspapers. In 2002 she published her first book Sheltering Rain, written on the basis of stories about the love of her own grandfather and grandmother. The success of the book inspired the author to leave journalism and fully devote himself to the writer's career. Nevertheless, she occasionally returns to the reporter's work: she leads columns in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and other publications. The writer and her family live on their own farm in Essex.
Written
The author of the book After You, Jojo Moyes (feedback informs everyone about this as much as possible about the writer) created eleven works:
• "Until we meet you" - a novel, conceived as a series.
• "After you" was conceived as its continuation.
Outside the series were created:
• "Night Music";
• "Silvery Bay";
• Villa Arcadia;
• "Happy steps in the rain";
• "Dancing with horses", etc.
The last novel written by Jojo Moyes is "After You." Reviews about him, as already said, are very ambiguous.
What is the novel about?
Do not lead God to readers to experience what, according toauthor's will, I happened to experience the heroine of Jojo Moyes's work "After You". Reviews of the book abound with confessions of the most sensitive readers that the girl's story touched them to tears.
Is it worth it to live after you lose your loved onethe person? Lou Clarke is not just a girl living her usual, unremarkable life. Her forever changed six months spent with Will Traynor. After the death of a loved one, due to circumstances, Lu had to return home to her family. And here she has to spend a lot of effort to overcome her grief, which turned out to be so huge that it filled her whole soul. The bodily wounds are healed (with the girl an accident occurred), but her soul continues to suffer and demand healing. In his search, she comes to a psychological support group, with members who share joys and sorrows. Here she meets a doctor Sam Fielding, a man who knows everything about life and death. Sam becomes a man who can really understand the heroine. But will it find the strength for a new relationship?
Plot
For those who have not read the novel "After You" by Jojo Moyes, the reviews and the description of the book will help you to orient yourself in the twists and turns of the story.
The action of the new work takes place twoyear after the events that became the content of the first book. Lou (our heroine) is alone again. After Will's death, she feels completely unhappy and lost. Gradually, acute emotions recede into the background, giving way to everyday problems. Lou finds a new job. She again serves as a waitress. The heroine did not get education, she still has no chance to change her profession. Lou is so much into his own experiences that he can not save himself from an accident. She falls from the roof, unexpectedly with a sharp cry derived from the pool of her gloomy reflections. With multiple fractures, Lou gets to the hospital, where he suffers several operations. For a while, the girl seems to fall into the place of her deceased lover. She is afraid of becoming an invalid. But the efforts of doctors prevent the worst outcome.
Morality
Despite the fact that most of those who read "Afteryou "Jojo Moyes reviews about the women's romance left mostly negative (the book disappointed readers expecting from the work of the beloved author of the same artistic level as the first novel -" Until we meet you "), yet the work made readers think about many serious things and draw important conclusions. Together with the main character, the readers realized that fate gives a chance for happiness more than once. It should not be "stuck" in the past and deprive yourself of the opportunity to once again become happy.
History of the book
Create a continuation of the book "Until We Meet You"as Jojojo Moyes admitted to the journalists, she did not intend to. But the work on the screenplay began and, in addition, a lot of letters came in which readers asked how the further life of the main character developed. All this did not allow the author to forget about the fallen in love heroes. I wanted to meet them again and go through new trials together.
"Not a point, but an ellipsis, and a too twisted plot ..."
Why the author has already finished the story decidedcontinue? This is often asked by the readers of the novel After You, Jojo Moyes. Comments on the book of network users contain the belief that this author spoiled the perception of the first book, where a very touching, tragic story was actually described. Readers believed that in its finale there is a convincing, according to the logic of the development of events and characters, the point. It turned out that this was just an ellipsis ...
Often, according to the authors of reviews, the continuation of a story loses before it begins. “After you” is exactly that option.
Many consider the plot of the novel too "twisted":Will’s daughter materializes out of the air, the heroine’s family’s family’s relationship with the family and the other heaps of events that don’t bother you at all make it difficult, just go on and go on.
According to one of the readers of the novel, the poignant story has degraded into a cheap romance, with the forced search for “I don’t know what.”
"Boring, a lot of excess ..."
“Places dull,” readers of the novel write.“After You” by Jojo Moyes. Reviews and reviews of female literature lovers who have read the novel contain, in addition to the transfer of personal impressions, an interesting analysis of the plot, characters and stylistic features of the work.
Readers note that at the beginning of the book tooa lot of pain, the heroine is broken, broken. She has absolutely no power to build life anew. Louise has driven herself into the world of four walls and refuses to wonder what is happening around her ... Then the story flows smoothly and boring, especially annoying the heroine’s campaigns to the support group. The text is replete with boring dialogues. Readers agree that these people need to share their feelings and pain, but it is rather difficult to penetrate this, therefore these dialogues and conversations are simply read "diagonally."
The more you read the novel, the more annoying the phrases are: “And so that Will will do? What would he do?” The heroine is too fixated on this.
Sam’s character, according to the reviewers, remainsUnsolved, amid the memories of Will, he seemed lost. Only in the final Sam became a significant figure. In the novel there is a lack of emotion, intrigue, sharpness in the plot and directly in the very fate of the new hero. The readers also don’t like the ending: everything is messy, there are a lot of excesses, everything seems to be happy, and Sam seems to be on the sidelines.
After reading the book "there is a light sadness ..."
The novel “After You”, the readers consider, is veryloses to its predecessor - “See you”. There are no colors, emotions. The work does not leave a vivid impression, does not make you think for a long time after reading about the fate of the characters. The book causes quite different emotions. After reading the novel, I don’t want to cry at all, "there remains a bright sadness ..." Many complain that the work is slightly stretched.
“Sometimes a novel is puzzling ...”
Unlike the first novel, this book is sometimescauses anger irritation because of the stupid actions of the heroes - the readers share this in their responses. And sometimes something in the plot puzzles. In their opinion, in the book there is an obvious similarity with the mediocre Latin American TV series.
In the novel, nothing left of the bright and cheerful Lou.This regrets the authors reviews. Apparently, everything that Will taught her was wasted, they said. In the new novel, the heroine is kind of gray, unremarkable. It seems that her age is not 28 years old, but all 60 years old. But some readers cannot be blamed on her. Too difficult situation in which she found herself. And it’s not at all implausible that she has been grieving for Will for such a long time. Who knows what others would have done in her place. As soon as she found a person who understands her, she almost immediately loses him. It’s bad that she doesn’t try to move on at all, constantly pity herself, scrolls past events in her head, misses Will, who cannot be returned, does not want to change anything.
Reviewers agree with what they said abouther Trina (her sister): "It’s easier for you to hold on to your stupid work and constantly whine. It’s easier for you to think that nothing depends on you." Most of all readers are unhappy with the "spinelessness" of the main character, because she constantly indulges everyone and forgives everything.
"Jojo must have a hidden undercurrent .."
According to readers, the events in the novel developnot just like that - they necessarily conceal a hidden subtext, which sometimes reveals in a hundred, if not more, pages. Why is it impossible to immediately draw a parallel between the fateful shout, after which Lou, by surprise, fell from the roof, and the appearance of a new heroine from nowhere? Such a question is contained in some reviews. Why flood the novel with a description of things because of which the heroes cannot find a place for themselves and which in fact are sheer nonsense? For example, the mother of the main character does not shave her legs on principle, and because of this, a real war lasts in the family. In the novel, Lu's parents are very funny with their pseudo-problems - so many people who read the book think so. For some reason, the writer needed to squeeze mother's feminist convictions into the novel, once again distracting readers from the main thing. Constantly waiting for hidden subtext eventually tires ...
“Life is a series of sufferings and failures ...”
According to network users, the author maintains histhe heroine invented life stages, each of which is some kind of failure, misfortune or suffering. Step by step, they and the heroine are moving along this abyss of grief, not allowing the reader to come to his senses - slowly, surely and steadily, but still to a happy ending. Probably in this way the writer is trying to brighten the public the boredom of the bleak everyday life, forcing him to relive the exceptional bitter fate of the heroes.
It seems that in all of EnglandThere is nothing good left that would inspire optimism and optimistic hope, say the authors of the reviews. Some kind of degeneration in the country results in complete degradation - the reader was literally atoned for in a sea of sufferings, and this is surprising.
Many also noticed that nothing happens inthe novel is simple. You can not just go to a relative and establish relations with him. Be sure to contact an intermediary. How else? What kind of intrigue without it?
And if the reader expects all these adventuresin the end will be completed and the author will put the final point, he is deeply mistaken. The wheel of the events depicted in the novel stops only for a while, the author with the heroine will rest a little, and then the squirrel (remember the metaphor at the beginning of the article?) Will run again.
"You should not regret anything ..."
Some readers the final of the novel seemedopen. Others argue that it is possible to write an endless sequel for any book. The real finale is not necessarily the one where the characters get married, something definite is achieved. At the end of the novel, the author shows that Louise finds peace, strength and hope.
The story described in the book, according tousers of networks, makes you think that you definitely need to go further, get pleasure from life. By this you do not betray the memory of a departed person at all. And most importantly, nothing should be regretted.
In this the opinions of the readers are the same. Whatever the impressions left after the acquaintance with the novel, the authors of the reviews are unanimous in one thing - they do not regret reading it.
