I have chosen to read “After” for my second half of this semester. It was very hard for me to get into reading this novel. I went from reading “The Hunger Games” (great book by the way) to reading this. They are two totally different novels. “The Hunger Games” is written in first person and you know what the main character is thinking all the time. In “After”, we, as readers, do not know what Devon, the main character, is thinking until she says it. We do know her actions, though, and sometimes those give things away.

This book has affected me in ways that I would expect. I tend to “leech” to characters in the books I am reading. In this book, Devon is going through a mental struggle dealing with what she has done in the past and I feel like her pain is real, in a way. When I read I usually am about to go to sleep and that usually does not affect my sleeping patterns, but with this book I wake up more when I’m reading it. I think my mind starts working more and it makes me restless.

Why this book affects me like it does, I have no idea. All I can guess is that I have a very large imagination and I can pull characters out of books to make them real. Within this parameter, I can also conjure up any image the book gives.

I’ll have to close saying that I hope this book gets a little more interesting. My mind is usually used to jumping around from one thing to another and this book does do that, but in the most annoying way.