Published:
July 1, 2014
Publisher:
Washington Square Press
Format: copy
via Booksparks
Rating: 5/5
Synopsis
When
Lauren and Ryan’s marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an
unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a
way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot
contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes.
Lauren
embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and
family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as
well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan,
begin to change Lauren’s ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to
question: When you can have romance without loyalty and commitment without
marriage, when love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value?
What are you willing to fight for?
This
is a love story about what happens when the love fades. It’s about staying in
love, seizing love, forsaking love, and committing to love with everything
you’ve got. And above all, After I Do is the story of a couple caught up in an
old game—and searching for a new road to happily ever after.
My Thoughts
**ATTENTION I
FOUND A NEW AUTHOR TO OBSESS OVER**
Seriously I love
this book and author so much I ordered her previous novel just pages into this
novel. Honestly when I read the concept that Lauren and Ryan were going to take
a year off of their marriage to figure things out I wasn’t so sure how this
would pan out. Okay so I had my theories on how I thought things would work out
and trust me it wasn’t positive. The fact that so many things could’ve happened
such as falling in love with someone else, I couldn’t see this ending in a good
way.
In the very
beginning Lauren cant handle things and she logs into Ryan's emails while there
she sees Ryan has written drafts of emails and she checks them out. There are
emails to Lauren in them he tells her things he felt he could never tell her.
While at first she gets mad but eventually she starts to see things from his
eyes. She began to realize how they both took things for granted. She realized
how he saw her and most importantly how she saw him. She starts writing her own
emails at first they are very mean but slowly but surely they turn emotional. She
soon stops seeing how he is doing and starts to focus on her own well
being.
I loved the
journey that Lauren takes. She takes this time to focus on herself and in the
process she becomes closer to her family as well. Although this book is about a
marriage, bottom line it all boils down to communication, work and effort. Everyone
seems to love the ideal of love but love and attraction is the easy thing.
Marriage takes work and effort if you don’t put the work in it can all fall to
the wayside in a blink of an eye. However at the same time you have to want to
put the effort in. If you don’t than there are bigger issues. But sometimes
things are definitely worth fighting for. This book shows us that marriage isn’t
perfect that sometimes you have to step back and if your love is strong enough
nothing can break that bond. This is hands down one of fave reads of the year.
It’s funny, witty, emotional and makes you see life and love in all it’s grit
and glory. Taylor Jenkins Reid takes you on a ride on that you soon won't
forget.
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