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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
It took me 2 gos to read this because Holly’s story in PS I love you really resonated with me and I read it multiple times.
Postscript feels like a DVD extra that was tacked on because the fans asked for it and I’m not entirely convinced it worked to be honest.
We find Holly 7 years later after the end of Ps, I love you with a new man, working for her sister Ciara and living her best life until Ciara forced her to share her journey with Gerry’s letters which inspires a group of terminally ill people to form the PS I love you club.
Holly is initially resistant and her new partner Gabriel is not happy with her involvement but slowly the club wins her round and she starts to get involved deeper and deeper into their lives.
I liked this book but I didn’t love it.
The writing was good but didn’t flow as naturally as the first book.
Holly is a changed woman but in a lot of ways has a lot of unresolved issues.
What captured me about the first book was how involved her family was in healing her and how she discovered so many things about them and herself via the letters.
This time they were a footnote and just actors in the background barely mentioned.
Gerry is present in the book but the memories of him are a little clunky and just seemed to be tacked on to fill the book.
Personally I think for fans of the book, leave Holly and friends in the first book but if you must learn what happens next don’t be too disappointed if it doesn’t reach your expectations.
Postscript feels like a DVD extra that was tacked on because the fans asked for it and I’m not entirely convinced it worked to be honest.
We find Holly 7 years later after the end of Ps, I love you with a new man, working for her sister Ciara and living her best life until Ciara forced her to share her journey with Gerry’s letters which inspires a group of terminally ill people to form the PS I love you club.
Holly is initially resistant and her new partner Gabriel is not happy with her involvement but slowly the club wins her round and she starts to get involved deeper and deeper into their lives.
I liked this book but I didn’t love it.
The writing was good but didn’t flow as naturally as the first book.
Holly is a changed woman but in a lot of ways has a lot of unresolved issues.
What captured me about the first book was how involved her family was in healing her and how she discovered so many things about them and herself via the letters.
This time they were a footnote and just actors in the background barely mentioned.
Gerry is present in the book but the memories of him are a little clunky and just seemed to be tacked on to fill the book.
Personally I think for fans of the book, leave Holly and friends in the first book but if you must learn what happens next don’t be too disappointed if it doesn’t reach your expectations.
3.5 stars rounded up. There were things I loved about this book. It is a beautiful story and tackles grief, and all of its stages, well. However, it’s long. It seems repetitive and there are so many inner dialogues of Holly happening, all saying the exact same thing. Also, everyone kept talking about Holly suffering psychologically for helping others , and I felt like that wasn’t portrayed well. I mean, we saw her struggle with whether or not she should help but I don’t really think we saw some but breakdown she had mentally. Honestly, I’m not sure I would have enjoyed this book as much if I hadn’t loved the first one SO MUCH.
PS I Love you is one of my favourite films and I'm ashamed that I have never read the book. However, I was excited to read this sequel and even though there are noticeably slightly different things to the film I still connected with Holly and her love for Gerry. The plot was interesting that she'd help to give others the experience Gerry gave her. All the different characters who were part of the 'PS I Love you Club' had their own unique stories which were just as heartbreaking as Gerrys such as Ginka's and Jewel's. We had the added bonus of learning more of Gerrys life and storys such as Eddie's 21st and his death and the additional letter at the end. I think as there was so much going on in the plot and many characters it was difficult to fit everything in so some parts of the book felt rushed and chapters seemed to be missing such as Ginika's and Paul's death. The ending of the new company Hollly is setting up is a nice touch and her life with Gabriel and her friends are in a good place.
I won a copy of this book from Goodreads. I was very excited to read the sequel to P. S. I Love You! The beginning started off a little slow, repetitive, and frustrating but it picked in the middle. I really enjoyed the remainder of the book. Not many books make me cry but I definitely choked up a few times. Overall, the story was heart warming and the perfect ending to the original story.
For reasons I couldn't understand, I kept resisting reading this book. I barely remember reading the original and wasn't sure if this would feel like an unnecessary extension of a lovely story that should have been well-enough left alone.
Thankfully, it didn't feel that way. The story had its own proper plot and also had the benefit of seeing a story over time and reflecting on its lessons slightly differently after so much time had passed. Considering how long it had been since the first book, I though this was a nice juxtaposition between real life and the book.
I really liked it, of course. Ahern can write and knows how to weave a story well with memorable characters. If you liked the first, you will likely like this one, too.
Thankfully, it didn't feel that way. The story had its own proper plot and also had the benefit of seeing a story over time and reflecting on its lessons slightly differently after so much time had passed. Considering how long it had been since the first book, I though this was a nice juxtaposition between real life and the book.
I really liked it, of course. Ahern can write and knows how to weave a story well with memorable characters. If you liked the first, you will likely like this one, too.
POSTSCRIPT was the sequel I never thought I needed. Let’s face it, PS I Love You finished in a good place and so it has existed for over a decade. I was worried that book two would sully the good memories I have of book one, I was worried it would disappoint, it did none of these things.
Holly was seven years down the line from Gerry’s death, living her life, happy, in a relationship and officially in a different phase of her life from when she recceived the original letters. I wondered where Cecelia Ahern would take us, without harping back to the experiences of the first book too much but Gerry’s letters were used for good, to empower others.
What I liked about Holly in this book was that she was still a bit of a hot mess. She didn’t have it all together, even after all this time, showing this was just a personality trait. What I also loved reading about was Holly’s grief for Gerry and the life she lost. The grief that shone through was dulled down but with occasional acuteness and this seemed real.
The quest that Holly went on alongside others in her PS I Love You club was a journey. I had my reservations about it just like her boyfriend, friends and family but I was won around by those characters of Bert, Genika and Jewel especially. I made it to 88% rather smugly thinking that ‘I’ve not cried, I wont now’… and then proceeded to sob twice before the end.
…ultimately, it’s all anyone wants. Not to get lost, or left behind, not to be forgotten, to always be a part of the moments they know they’ll miss. To leave their stamp. To be remembered.
Cecelia Ahern wrote about the journey towards death and the grief that ensues with sensitivity and tangibility. She also wrote it in an uplifting style. She connected me to the characters and narratives with skill and affection. I am so glad that this second instalment came along and made it seem as though no years had passed since the last book.
Thank you Harper Collins for the early review copy.
This review can be found on A Take From Two Cities Book Blog here.
Holly was seven years down the line from Gerry’s death, living her life, happy, in a relationship and officially in a different phase of her life from when she recceived the original letters. I wondered where Cecelia Ahern would take us, without harping back to the experiences of the first book too much but Gerry’s letters were used for good, to empower others.
What I liked about Holly in this book was that she was still a bit of a hot mess. She didn’t have it all together, even after all this time, showing this was just a personality trait. What I also loved reading about was Holly’s grief for Gerry and the life she lost. The grief that shone through was dulled down but with occasional acuteness and this seemed real.
The quest that Holly went on alongside others in her PS I Love You club was a journey. I had my reservations about it just like her boyfriend, friends and family but I was won around by those characters of Bert, Genika and Jewel especially. I made it to 88% rather smugly thinking that ‘I’ve not cried, I wont now’… and then proceeded to sob twice before the end.
…ultimately, it’s all anyone wants. Not to get lost, or left behind, not to be forgotten, to always be a part of the moments they know they’ll miss. To leave their stamp. To be remembered.
Cecelia Ahern wrote about the journey towards death and the grief that ensues with sensitivity and tangibility. She also wrote it in an uplifting style. She connected me to the characters and narratives with skill and affection. I am so glad that this second instalment came along and made it seem as though no years had passed since the last book.
Thank you Harper Collins for the early review copy.
This review can be found on A Take From Two Cities Book Blog here.
*audiobook* Didn’t enjoy the start but it grew on me. Holly grew as a character and became more likeable. A book all about friends, love, relationships and healing.
I bought and read PS. I Love You when it was first published and I adored it so I was delighted to hear a sequel was coming out. I wondered if it would capture the emotions that the first book did and I’m so pleased to say that it did, perhaps even more so!
Postscript is set seven years after the end of PS I Love you and Holly is doing well. Then one day she is invited to help with a group called the PS I Love You Club, which was inspired by the story of the letters that Holly received every month in the year after Gerry died. Holly is really unsure about it, she’s moved on and doesn’t want to go back to those feelings but at the same time she knows how the letters helped her and feels she should at least hear the club out.
The PS I Love You Club is a group of people who are all facing their own mortality and they want Holly to help them leave letters behind for their own loved ones. On attending a meeting Holly agrees to help and from then on we see her relationships with the individuals in this group build.
I loved this book, it explores grief and loss in so many ways but it’s done in a way that ultimately feels uplifting. Holly explores how she feels now about the letters Gerry left, and she ponders how he must have felt when he was writing them. We see how she uses her feelings to help others work through their own approaches to leaving something behind.
Postscript is a wonderful book – it will make you cry, it will make you hold you loved ones a bit tighter but it will also make you smile and it will ultimately leave you feeling uplifted. I’m so glad that I read this book, it’s definitely one of my favourites of this year and I recommend it!
This review was originally posted on my blog https://rathertoofondofbooks.com
Postscript is set seven years after the end of PS I Love you and Holly is doing well. Then one day she is invited to help with a group called the PS I Love You Club, which was inspired by the story of the letters that Holly received every month in the year after Gerry died. Holly is really unsure about it, she’s moved on and doesn’t want to go back to those feelings but at the same time she knows how the letters helped her and feels she should at least hear the club out.
The PS I Love You Club is a group of people who are all facing their own mortality and they want Holly to help them leave letters behind for their own loved ones. On attending a meeting Holly agrees to help and from then on we see her relationships with the individuals in this group build.
I loved this book, it explores grief and loss in so many ways but it’s done in a way that ultimately feels uplifting. Holly explores how she feels now about the letters Gerry left, and she ponders how he must have felt when he was writing them. We see how she uses her feelings to help others work through their own approaches to leaving something behind.
Postscript is a wonderful book – it will make you cry, it will make you hold you loved ones a bit tighter but it will also make you smile and it will ultimately leave you feeling uplifted. I’m so glad that I read this book, it’s definitely one of my favourites of this year and I recommend it!
This review was originally posted on my blog https://rathertoofondofbooks.com
TW: discussions of death
Thank you so so much Harper Collins Publishers for reaching out to me and asking if I wanted to receive an ARC of Postscript. I was absolutely over the moon but all my views and opinions discussed here are my own.
It has taken me so long to get around to writing this review because I just wasn't sure that my heart could take it. Oh this book
Thank you so so much Harper Collins Publishers for reaching out to me and asking if I wanted to receive an ARC of Postscript. I was absolutely over the moon but all my views and opinions discussed here are my own.
It has taken me so long to get around to writing this review because I just wasn't sure that my heart could take it. Oh this book