Everything After (Review)

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.”

― Jill Santopolo, Everything After

The vibe

Book / Jeans / Sweater / Bracelet / Boots / Necklace / Earrings

The review

Emily has a great life with her husband, Ezra. She’s a psychologist at NYU, helping college students who remind her of herself at that age. When Emily faces a traumatic experience, the memories of a loss she endured in college comes filtering back. She begins to wonder about the life that could have been with her college sweetheart, Rob.

I love a romance that makes you think. This book has everything you want in a warm, serious romance — love, loss, heartbreak, rediscovery, rethinking, and, ultimately, deciding for yourself the who you want to be and who you want to love.

Trigger warning: There is a significant theme of pregnancy loss, and a small amount of suicide and mental health.

Format: I read this book in a day — it’s short and sweet. I loved the audio, narrated by the author, but found myself gravitating to the physical copy mostly.

Read if… you loved One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid and Heard it in a Love Song by Tracey Garvis Graves and Rebecca Serle is an auto-buy author.