Name: Every Moment After
ISBN: 9781328547279

Joseph Moldover

After high school graduation, best friends Matt and Cole strive to put behind them the school shooting they survived in first grade and really begin to live. Told in two voices.

Every Moment After

Sophia Owen

this book was just. so good. matt and cole’s friendship just warmed my heart. i really appreciated the angle the author took and the raw and emotional approach to the way this event impacted the character’s lives. i am thoroughly impressed and was shocked to find out it was a debut novel.

Jessica 

Blog | Twitter | Instagram | Review originally posted here at Booked J. I was sent a copy of this novel from the publisher in exchange for my honest review. This does not change my view in any shape or form.

This novel was a different kind of heartbreaking than I expected. Every Moment After is filled with many emotionally charged moments; underlying beneath the story of survival and moving on, is one of coming of age. It is, of course, a timely release and one that will speak to its target audience in various ways.

Joseph Moldover doesn't take actual events and cheapen them by dramatizing and fictionalizing them. Instead, he takes on the very real grief of surviving something so traumatizing. This isn't something that was haphazardly thrown together to create something relevant--it is something that is relevant to the times we are living in.

While many readers might see this novel as another fictional school shooting, the events at hand are connected to the aftermath only. Every Moment After fits as a name because it deals primarily with everything that comes after. The bonds that are made or complicated. All the classic coming of age honesty, with a tragic center as the before.

And honestly, this makes it all the more powerful.

Every Moment After deals with the many emotions that come with survivor's guilt, with living through something so horrible at such a young age, and provides an image of how to keep moving. There wasn't a better time for a novel with such a topic be released.

This is definitely one of the most moving YA releases of 2019 and should be at the top of your reading list. No matter your age.

Every Moment After

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