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Life After Yes (2010)

by Aidan Donnelley Rowley(Favorite Author)

3.38 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0061894478 (ISBN13: 9780061894473)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

William Morrow Paperbacks

review 1: i went back and forth on this book. there were parts that i LOVED, and parts where i thought about shelving it. though quinn and i are very different, i came to really adore her. she's flawed, yet lovely. i particularly enjoyed her relationships with the other women in her life...especially her mom and future mother-in-law. the letter that her mother-in-law writes to her at her bridal shower...beauty. loved it."We get older, we can't help that, but we don't ever have to stop laughing." -mom"Why can't we be both? We humans are so hungry for labels, for order. We are so quick to categorize, to box things up." -mom"I think forgiveness is underrated. There's nothing wrong with forgiveness. It's basically noticing and accepting that other people make mistakes, just like we do."... more -sage"K, I think the forty weeks is supposed to be the easy part. After that things get tough. After that, youa re going to have a mini version of yourself to keep alive." -quinn
review 2: [Book: Life After Yes] is a novel full of deeply philosophical anologies and life lessons. Although its cover and summary scream "Chick Lit", the subplots dig much deeper to make the reader analyze not just the main character, but themselves.[Author: Aidan Donnelley Rowley] does a beautiful and seamless job of interweaving profound moments into creating a wonderful plot line. The main character, Quinn, whose first name is truly Prudence, finds herself post 9/11 trying to understand the untimely and immediately loss of her father. Around the same time, she becomes engaged to Sage, in which she struggles with the thought of marriage due to the irrationality of the end of life due to 9/11 while Sage still struggles to vocalize his younger brother's unfortunate death a decade earlier. Throughout this journey to find herself again and determine if marriage is the route for her, the them of "prudence" plays repetitively throughout the book.At one point, Rowley quotes Plato in describing love and marriage. Love was anologized as a beautiful stalk of corn and comes by us by opportunity; not wanting to be plucked in case there is a more beautiful stalk nearby. Marriage was then descirbed as picking out a suitable tree as a compromise. As Plato never picked out his stalk of corn, he at least wanted to come back with a tree.However, learning to deal with death is an important pyschological endeavor. Sage's family was ripped apart by the death of Henry, his little brother. His family learned to never discuss the event and became distant to each other. Quinn used this lesson to interweave her father's character into her life and grew strong enough to discuss him at length.Finally, Quinn quoted that their is a big difference between not being a bad person and being a good person. Everyone makes human errors at times and the heart needs to learn to forgive. There is no such thing as "the one", but there is an equivalent to being "the one", someone who is the match to an important symbol in your life such as "cheerios and blackberries".This novel's subplots will continute to haunt and make the reader think far into the future. A must-read. less

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