After I Do: A Novel

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It made me miss you. Not you, my wife. Or you, the woman who has been with me since I was nineteen years old. You. Lauren Maureen Spencer Cooper. I missed you.”

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. The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies.One book might've been an accident. Two books, might have been a fluke. Four books is no longer an accident. Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. After I Do felt quite different to Taylor Jenkins Reid other novels. While her more recent books focus on successful, celebrity women, this is the story of an every day couple struggling with the trials of married life. Jay, on the other hand, is counting the minutes until nightfall, when the girl he can’t stop thinking about promised she’ll be there.

Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. SOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL......Never ONCE JUDGED HER DAUGHTER --NEVER ONCE TRIED TO CONTROL HER DAUGHTER -- Would I buy a copy for my collection? I got this out from the library and I REALLY want a copy for myself now!

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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. Her book One True Loves was published in 2016. The film adaption, released in 2023 stars Phillipa Soo, Simu Liu and Luke Bracey. [7]

Reid graduated from Emerson College in Boston and majored in media studies. [1] [2] She began her career in film production. [3] A smart, timely, energizing romance, Good Morning, Love shows us what the glamorous New York’s music scene is really like and takes us into the lives of a rising but somewhat troubled R&B star and a promising protégé who knows her job better than she knows herself. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, comes a breath taking novel about modern marriage, the depth of family ties, and the year that one remarkable heroine spends exploring both. I really liked both characters in this book. Taylor Jenkins Reid always creates characters that are flawed and relatable and I liked how neither Lauren or Ryan were completely in the wrong. I could understand their frustrations and it showed how easy it can be to struggle in a marriage, especially if communication isn’t there. Zero steam doesn't equal a bad rating in my book. I have given five stars to books that had no explicit sex in it at all, yet it was the superb writing and intriguing characters or storyline that made me fall hard for a certain read. Unfortunately this wasn't the case with After I Do. Folks, don't start reading this book with the wrong perceptions. This is not a romance--which is fine by me, BTW. It reads like women's fiction and doesn't provide any romantic elements and it's told from Lauren's POV. As a matter of fact, I missed Ryan's POV very much and I didn't like Lauren.