After the Moment by Garret Freymann-Weyr

Posted by: harmonybookreviews on: July 6, 2009

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Title: After the Moment

Author: Garret Freymann-Weyr

Rating: 9.5/10

Good If… You’re looking for a heartbreaking novel about first love.

Summary: (Taken from Amazon)

A new novel by the Printz Honor author Garret Freymann-Weyr, about a boy who discovers what happens when love fails us—or we fail love.
Maia Morland is pretty, only not pretty-pretty. She’s smart. She’s brave. She’s also a self-proclaimed train wreck.

Leigh Hunter is smart, popular, and extremely polite. He’s also completely and forever in love with Maia Morland.

Their young love starts off like a romance novel—full of hope, strength, and passion. But life is not a romance novel and theirs will never become a true romance. For when Maia needs him the most, Leigh betrays both her trust and her love.

Told with compassion and true understanding, After the Moment is about what happens when a young man discovers that sometimes love fails us, and that, quite often, we fail love.

My Thoughts: After the Moment is one of those books it’s nearly impossible to write a review for. I’ve rewritten this countless times and I still don’t think I can get it right.

After Moment is a book I think everyone should read. It’s heartbreaking and merry, unobtainable and realistic. It made me cry but also laugh out loud. The characters are so well-developed and original and perfect (in the sense that they’re unperfect). The plot was original and unexpected. I never guessed what was coming and after that, nothing happened as I was expecting. The ending, like the rest of the book, was so unexpected and it left me wanting more.

I realize this is a short review but I’m not sure what else to say. The book was amazing. You should buy it. End of story.