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What Comes After [With Earbuds] (2011)

by Steve Watkins(Favorite Author)

3.92 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1611065208 (ISBN13: 9781611065206)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fiction

publisher

Playaway

review 1: Sorrow, Anger, Frustration, Confusion, Relief………………..What Comes After is a book that I couldn’t help but fall in love with.Iris Wight receives a life that no sixteen year old should receive, basically nobody should receive the life she was given. Iris struggles to function as her father dies right in front of her eyes. She is forced to live with her best friend, Beatrice, because she is without a mother. A few months later Beatrice’s parents begin to have struggles within their marriage and Iris is forced to live with her Aunt Sue and cousin, Book, in North Carolina. Not long into Iris’s stay with Aunt Sue and Book, she begins to notice Aunt Sue is rough and does what she wants to do. Aunt Sue begins to take Iris’s money (that her father left for her) a... morend uses it to buy a flat screen TV and a big red pick-up truck. As this occurs Iris begins to rebel. As a result of Iris’s multiple rebellions, let’s just say she, Iris, is put in the hospital. Her aunt and cousin are put in jail as well. Where am I to go? What am I to do??I love and recommend this book to any and every one.
review 2: The book what comes after was a really good book. Even though at some parts it was sad it was still really good. After her dad dies in Main Iris goes to live with her aunt and cousin, which she doesn't know, in North Carolina. Her Aunt Sue and cousin Book live on a farm with goats and a dog. As soon as she got there they made her start doing chores on the farm and didn't make her feel very welcome. Going from a big city in Maine to a small town in North Carolina was different for her. Aunt Sue is a very strict person. She never let Iris talk on the phone with her best friend Beatrice. If she wanted to talk to her at all she would have to do it at night when Aunt Sue went to work and hoped that Book wouldn't hear her. Iris didn't have much of a social life but she met a guy named Littleberry. For awhile she told him she couldn't hang out but that was because she had farm work to do. Eventually she started to enjoy doing farm work and taking care of the goats. In her father’s will he had left her some money but her aunt was spending it on herself and she also got a new truck. That made Iris mad and she slashed the tires on the truck. When Aunt Sue found out what Iris did she slapped her and that wasn't the first time she had done this. One of the goats was pregnant and had her babies. Aunt Sue only wanted the babies for meat but Iris wouldn’t let her kill the goats so she tried to run away with them. When she returned with the goats Aunt Sue lied to Iris and told her she wasn’t going to kill the goats. Iris believed her and she went up to her room, but when she did that Aunt Sue locked her in there. Then Aunt Sue told book to go outside and kill the baby goats with the gun. But she didn’t know Iris had taken the firing pin out. When they discovered that, Book went into the barn to get a shovel. Iris was watching the whole thing form her window while she was freaking out when Book came out with a Shovel. She eventually broke out of her room and ran outside and tired to stop Book, but it was to late. Iris then called the police but when they got there Aunt Sue lied to them. Aunt Sue had decided that Iris had taken it too far and she, Iris and Book, went out to the lake so the neighbors wouldn’t hear what they were about to do. When they got to the lake they beat Iris almost to death and she woke up in the hospital and Aunt Sue and Book went to jail. When Iris left the hospital she was put into a foster care. She started living with this family and eventually she went back to school. She was always worried about the goats. But the Tutens (the family she was staying with) wouldn’t let her go to the farm to check on them. So she went to the jail to see Aunt Sue. Aunt Sue told her she could go to the farm as long as she paid all the bills, and Iris did. She made goat cheese and sold it, that’s how she got her money. For a little while she didn’t tell the Tutens that she was doing that and Littleberry was helping her. But she eventually told them they were a little mad at her, but they got over it and let her continue to do it. Iris got used to living with the Tutens and she liked it.I would recommend this book to either high school or middle school kids. I think they would enjoy it. Because Iris is a high school student and it’s a really good book. I don’t really think many adults would be interested in it. On a scale of 1-5 I would rate this book a 4. I would have given this book a 5 but it takes a while for the book to actually start to get interesting. less

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