Everything After

Trigger warnings: miscarriage/infertility, side character that contemplated suicide. I was really excited for this book as I love this author. She has such a knack for writing dramatic, gut-wrenching romances… I still think about The Light We Lost. But this one fell a little bit flat for me. I think it’s really that I just could not identify or relate to the main character at all. Emily is 33 years old, a therapist, and married to a successful doctor. When she suffers a miscarriage she is transported back to when she was 20 years old (and also had a miscarriage).  Old feelings come up, and at the same time an old flame (now a successful musician, with a hit song about her!) comes back into the picture. I think that for me, I just couldn’t understand why she was still so gutted by a miscarriage she had at that young age (half the book is letters to that unborn child). I truly apologize if this comes across as insensitive, but it just wasn’t my kind of book. Again, I do love this author and feel badly leaving a less than glowing review. I still read it in a day but it was a little bit of a letdown for me. I think that maybe someone who desperately wants children could identify with her better than I did. Order it on Bookshop or Amazon.