![]() ![]() Then she herself almost becomes a quadriplegic when she falls off of her rooftop after a melancholy night of loneliness and drinking. As the story begins, Lou has a pretty horrible job as a bartender and factotum at a faux Irish pub at the airport. Lou stood by his side to the end, but she still hasn’t recovered. In this sequel, we meet up again with Louisa (“Lou”) Clark, eighteen months after the love of her life, Will Traynor, a quadriplegic, opted to end his life. I don’t know how much Moyes worried about such expectations, but she acquitted herself with her usual knack for treating difficult subjects with grace, compassion, and humor. ![]() Indeed, a number of directors of movies from popular series characterize fan pressure as “intense” and “terrifying” (see, for example, discussions of making “The Hunger Games” and the “Star Wars” franchises). Big fans tend to have even bigger expectations. ![]() I really don’t think this author is capable of producing a book that is not good, but this one no doubt presented a particular challenge because she had apparently been inundated by reader requests to continue the story she began in the book Me Before You. ![]()
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