Not After Everything
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
In this “raw and unforgettable” (Kirkus Reviews) page-turner, a highschooler has to learn how to put his world back together after his mother commits suicide.
“A raw, emotional love story that knows first love doesn't always go like the movies.”—Bustle
“One of the best young adult novels I’ve ever read.”—Jennifer Echols, award-winning author of Endless Summer
Tyler has a football scholarship to Stanford, a hot girlfriend, and a reliable army of friends to party with. Then his mom kills herself and Tyler lets it all go.
Now he needs to dodge what his dad is offering (verbal tirades and abuse) and earn what his dad isn’t (money). Tyler finds a job that crashes him into Jordyn, his former childhood friend turned angry-loner-goth-girl. She brings Tyler an unexpected reprieve from the never-ending pity party his life has become. How could he not fall for her? But with his dad more brutally unpredictable than ever, Tyler knows he can’t risk bringing Jordyn too deeply into the chaos. So when violence rocks his world again, will it be Jordyn who shows him the way to a hopeful future? Or after everything, will Tyler have to find that future for himself?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
For a while, Tyler Blackwell had it all: great grades, a cheerleader girlfriend, football stardom, and a probable scholarship. But after his mother kills herself, he quits football, alienates his girlfriend, and spends most of his time dodging his brutally abusive father. Guilt-ridden and broke (his father cuts off all support), Tyler is ghosting his way through senior year when he gets a job at a photography studio. There he realizes that a coworker he had dismissed as a goth loser is actually his childhood friend Jordyn. Their relationship changes Tyler's life: he can be honest with Jordyn, she urges him not to give up on football or the scholarship, and her parents provide a model of family affection. By the end of the school year, Tyler's life is back together; if it's all a little too good to be true, given the tragedy Tyler has endured, readers won't begrudge him a happier future. Believable dialogue and emotions especially Tyler's simmering rage at the outset of the novel make this a solid first showing. Ages 14 up.
