3.5* - Listened to this on audiobook... I read the first book in this duology which may be why some of my feelings of this book are so different from the first book - which I gave 5 stars. 
 I love Me Before You and didn't feel the same kind of love for the sequel After You. Lou felt scraped raw (which is definitely true after feeling the loss of Will at the end of Me Before You), however, there's something I can't quite put my finger on that made Lou feel a little different and not entirely in a good way. This book didn't have the brief moments of comic relief that Lou brought into the first book. She didn't say and do things that I found hilarious and which lightened the mood like in the first book. There were parts of the plot which felt rushed and undeveloped which I didn't really feel in the first book. 
 I enjoyed the cast of new characters (and the reappearance of the Clark family) in this book. I like Lou's new love interest and could feel why Lou didn't feel like she should fully invest herself in a new relationship quite yet. I also enjoyed the character of Lily and felt that Jojo Moyes did a good job of capturing what a teenager is really like. The crazy moodiness and ups and downs of what teenagers are like was spot on. I felt the infuriating feelings Lou got when Lily did and said things (as a high school teacher I feel the same things all the time!) and felt the same vibe of "am I doing the right thing" that I feel almost daily with my high schoolers which Lou felt frequently with Lily living on and off with her. 
 One of the things that I couldn't get over was the little bits of climax that happen throughout this book. Moyes does a good job of making this book complex with more than one plot line running through it... however, each of those plot lines have their own climax and I found each of their climax moments a little over the top. The plot of Lily becoming her own person and figuring out herself comes to a ridiculous head and it almost felt like Moyes didn't know where she wanted the story to go with her and so decided to throw in this crazy happening which required the story to derail from the POV it follows throughout Me Before You AND After You for one brief chapter. This felt uncharacteristic of the book(s) and like the author didn't know what they wanted to do and so threw this in because, hey! it would spice things up and add some crazy interest. Also, the climax of the plot line of Lou and her new love interest felt over the top as well. I'm not going to spoil anything, but did there really need to be life or death situation thrown in there? I think there could have been a way to make the climax between them just as impactful without the daytime soap tv kind of drama. These two different climax moments in the book made me feel like I needed to suspend my disbelief and while both things couldn't definitely happen and I'm sure happen more frequently than I know, both things in one books were a little difficult to swallow. 
 Overall, I liked After You and was happy to see the kind of ending that it got but feel like it was a little weak on the part of the author.