Blue's parents were always fighting, which convinced her and her siblings that they were going to divorce.
Ever since then, she had never been the same person. 3 years ago on December 3rd, her twin sister, Iris died in a car accident. I always found myself connecting to her in a weird way that I can't quite explain in words.īluebell is the name of the M.C. And they're always the same opinion Blue has. The way Natasha writes dialogue and how a character acts towards Blue changes the perspective of my opinion on him/her. In a few scenes in this book, my brain was somehow convinced that I was the main character of After Iris. I love how simple the words are yet they still express so much of the characters' emotions and personalities. I can't wait to read Natasha Farrant's next MG novel!Īfter Iris was a phenomenal book. (And some of the video transcripts made me laugh out loud!) The whole story is told in a mix of diary entries and video transcripts that works just perfectly. Just based on that synopsis, this could have been a depressing book, but instead it was just wonderful, full of quirky humor and fascinating family dynamics as Blue slowly but surely re-enters the world, complete with first love, baby rats (really!), family fights (and reconciliations) and new, unexpected friendships. The four remaining children are left mostly in the care of an overwhelmed young au pair (a really, really fabulous character who provides some of the funniest lines in the book). Unfortunately, their parents have both coped with their own grief by fleeing, one to a new job a hundred miles away, another into a workaholic lifestyle that sends her regularly jetting around the world to escape the pain of her memories. Life seems to have moved on for her other three siblings, from her dramatic older sister Flora to her rat-obsessed younger brother, Twig, and his hyper-sensitive twin Jas - but all of them are hiding their own grief as they splash out in their different ways. Now, Blue feels like she's the only one who really remembers Iris. It's been three years since 12-year-old Blue's twin sister, Iris, was killed in a terrible accident. Written in a lovely, warm style reminiscent of I Capture the Castle (but set in the modern day), it manages to be really funny and really heartbreaking, sometimes both at the same time. Such a lovely, bittersweet, wonderful book! After Iris is about a big, quirky family trying hard to rebuild itself after a tragedy.
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