After I Do: A Novel
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“A seductive twist on the timeless tale of a couple trying to rediscover love in a marriage brought low by the challenges of domestic togetherness…touching, perceptive, and achingly honest.” —Beatriz Williams, New York Times bestselling author
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.
“A seductive twist on the timeless tale of a couple trying to rediscover love in a marriage brought low by the challenges of domestic togetherness…touching, perceptive, and achingly honest.” —Beatriz Williams, New York Times bestselling author
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.
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Readers say *After I Do* by Taylor Jenkins Reid is a refreshingly honest and heartfelt exploration of marriage’s complexity, capturing its messiness a...
A lovely read, but not my favourite. Very predicable. You can see what’s going to happen a mile off.
After I Do is refreshingly honest. It captures how marriage can be messy, complicated, and still deeply beautiful, and how normal it is to feel a wide range of emotions within it. The characters take a truly unique approach to their relationship, and while it’s uncomfortable at times, it never feels wrong. I appreciated how the author created space for open communication without violating the couple’s agreement not to contact each other. That balance felt both creative and intriguing, and it kept me emotionally invested throughout.
3,5
sem dúvida o menos favorito de TJR que já li até agora, algo que não me surpreende... esperando ansiosamente por atmosfera
sem dúvida o menos favorito de TJR que já li até agora, algo que não me surpreende... esperando ansiosamente por atmosfera
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