Absolutely love love loved this! The PS I Love you story is one of my favorites and it was wonderful to revisit the characters once more. I loved that we get to see Holly happy but steal dealing with losing Gerry- she isn’t wallowing in her grief, but she has good and bad days and I think that’s incredibly realistic and a good representation of reality.

As an uber-fan of PS I LOVE YOU, I couldn’t wait to read the sequel when I heard Cecelia Ahern had finally penned it. The first book was so witty, heartbreaking at times, and uplifting that I hoped a glimpse into Holly’s life after her husband’s death would be the same, so thankyou to Netgalley for allowing me a sneak peak into POSTSCRIPT.

We meet Holly Kennedy seven years after Gerry’s death. She’s involved in a relationship with Gabriel ( Ahern likes G names) and is working for her sister who convinces her to do a podcast about the letters Gerry wrote her before he died and which were, subsequently, delivered to her after his death, as planned. Her story so resonates with the listeners that Holly is approached by a woman who forms a club called THE PS I LOVE YOU Club, where dying people can also write to their loved ones as Gerry did. Holly is wanted to teach them the best way to do this.

She refuses. In all truth, I would have, too.

She’s just gotten back to a semblance of her old self, no longer sees Gerry at every turn, and wants to move on.

But…these clubbers are persistent and when she finally decides to acquiesce to their requests, she sinks deeper and deeper into that tortured time soon after Gerry’s passing.

Peppered with people and conditions so real they leap from the page, POSTSCRIPT isn’t a love letter like the original, but a story of one woman’s path to becoming the woman she was always meant to be.

I really wanted to love this story as much as I did the first. Unfortunately, I didn’t. Though the book is well written and details Holly’s struggle well, there were parts that lumbered along at a snail’s pace and at some points I couldn’t understand Holly’s mercurial emotions and thoughts and reactions to people and events.

If PS I LOVE YOU was a love letter, POSTSCRIPT is more a long diary towards one woman’s purpose for the rest of her life. While I found it enjoyable in parts, it was maudlin in others.

4 stars from me.

Oh Holly how I loved her in P.S. I love you and I love her even more now. I hate that she kind of has to relive some of the losing Gerry, but then as the story progresses we see her work past that and really focus on just helping others.
Her relationship with Gabriel though, it hurt me for her. All the back and forth and the arguing, I just want Holly to be happy. I see some of myself in Holly, wanting alone time, keeping to yourself, but also wanting to help others and be happy.
I enjoyed this new installment to Holly's story and I had a hard time putting it down. I think the world is going to love having this glimpse into Holly's life again.
Thank you NetGalley and the publish for this lovely ARC!

Outstanding sequel

PS, I LOVE YOU was published in 2004. After that amount of time I was not expecting a sequel to one of my favorite stories. So I was shocked, to say the least, when I started seeing POSTSCRIPT being advertised.

I went back and re-read the first book because it had been a while since last reading it and I advise readers to do the same (unless they have a super duper memory). I rediscovered parts of the book I had forgotten.

In POSTSCRIPT it is seven years since Gerry, Holly's husband, has passed away from a brain tumor. She has moved on with her life, not forgetting Gerry but not actively mourning him any more.

She works at her sister's vintage store and is talked into doing a podcast about the PS, I love you letters she had received from Gerry. She does not expect the overwhelming positive response to the podcast or the events that come from it.

It took me a little while to get into POSTSCRIPT. I had just finished the first book when I picked up the sequel and started reading it. And seven years has brought many changes to Holly. Once I got involved in the story, though, I loved it, just like the first book.

Great characters and great life (and death) lessons make this story another winner. Cecelia Ahern is a very special author.

I received this book from Grand Central Publishing through Net Galley in the hopes that I would read it and leave an unbiased review.