Editors Reads Verdict
Still Me is the most overtly commercial entry in the Me Before You trilogy — a glossy New York romance that leans into wish-fulfilment more than its predecessors. Moyes keeps Lou recognisable and the series emotionally honest, but this is lighter fare than what came before.
What We Loved
- Lou's voice remains warm, funny, and distinctively herself even in unfamiliar settings
- The New York setting is handled with more local texture than a lesser author would provide
- The love triangle creates genuine narrative tension without resorting to melodrama
Minor Drawbacks
- The wealthy-family world Lou enters edges toward fantasy rather than the grounded social observation of the earlier novels
- The resolution feels somewhat rushed given the emotional complexity established throughout
Key Takeaways
- → Reinvention requires not just new circumstances but a willingness to discover who you are outside familiar constraints
- → Class differences in romantic relationships create specific tensions that goodwill alone cannot resolve
- → The advice of those who have died continues to shape the living in ways that are both gift and burden
| Author | Jojo Moyes |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Pamela Dorman Books |
| Pages | 389 |
| Published | January 30, 2018 |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Romance, Women's Fiction, Contemporary Fiction |
Lou in New York
Jojo Moyes sends Lou Clark to New York for the third entry in the trilogy, and the move is both the novel’s greatest asset and its most significant risk. New York provides fresh narrative energy — Lou as fish out of water, encountering wealth and ambition and cosmopolitan complexity in ways Stortfold could never supply — but it also pushes the series toward a glossier, more wish-fulfilment-oriented register.
Lou arrives as personal assistant and companion to Agnes Gopnik, the young second wife of a wealthy financier on the Upper East Side. The Gopnik household is a world of competing agendas, social performance, and quiet cruelties, and Moyes navigates it well enough, though with less of the social precision she brings to the British class dynamics of the earlier books.
The Love Triangle
The novel’s central tension involves Lou’s long-distance relationship with Sam Fielding and her unexpected connection with Josh Ryan, a charming American who represents a version of the bold future Will wanted for her. The triangle is handled with more sophistication than the genre typically manages — Moyes does not make one option obviously correct — but it also means the novel spends more time in romantic uncertainty than emotional depth.
Lou, Continued
What Still Me does well is maintain Lou Clark’s essential character across the series arc. She is still funny, still self-doubting, still capable of the unexpected gesture that reveals her fundamental decency. The continuity is reassuring even as the novel around her becomes somewhat more conventionally plotted.
The trilogy as a whole represents one of contemporary commercial fiction’s more honest engagements with grief, growth, and the complicated obligations of the living to the dead.
Our rating: 3.9/5 — A breezy, engaging conclusion to the trilogy that sacrifices some of the series’ emotional weight for New York glamour, but delivers on the promise of Lou Clark’s continued becoming.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is "Still Me" about?
In the third Lou Clark novel, Louisa travels to New York City as a personal assistant to a wealthy family, navigating a new world, a complicated love triangle, and the ongoing question of what it means to live the life Will Traynor urged her toward.
What are the key takeaways from "Still Me"?
Reinvention requires not just new circumstances but a willingness to discover who you are outside familiar constraints Class differences in romantic relationships create specific tensions that goodwill alone cannot resolve The advice of those who have died continues to shape the living in ways that are both gift and burden
Is "Still Me" worth reading?
Still Me is the most overtly commercial entry in the Me Before You trilogy — a glossy New York romance that leans into wish-fulfilment more than its predecessors. Moyes keeps Lou recognisable and the series emotionally honest, but this is lighter fare than what came before.
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