by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Just released: July 1, 2014
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Genre: Chick-lit
Paperback: 352 pages
Rating: 4
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 two-bits:
Nice chick-lit contemporary romance that examines love and long term relationships.
What I liked about this story is that it went a bit beyond the usual cliche of an adulterous affair to bring about the questions about the meaning of marriage and commitment and soul mates.
Taylor Jenkins Reid is an author and essayist from Acton, Massachusetts. She graduated from Emerson College with a degree in Media Studies.
Her first novel, Forever, Interrupted, was named one of the “11 Debuts We Love” by Kirkus Reviews.
She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Alex, and her dog, Rabbit. Her forthcoming novel, After I Do, will be published July 1, 2014.
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