What Comes After [With Earbuds] (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
I absolutely loved the plot. Wonderful people and wonderful animals. It's quite funny how this book revolves around goats.However, it has terrible writing: parallelism from the chapter before and quite noticeable layout. He controls the characters too much and sometimes they do things the wouldn't naturally do. Oh, let's move this let's move that. Like with the lambs, one dies another dies. It's not that cool. Shakespeare mastered parallelism; Steve has not. Not only that, but he starts important characters but then they die away. I am not asking for her mother. but if you add a character you have to explain them. please and thanks. I picked up this book at the library, the summer before middle school. I don't know what it was about it that made me seem so fascinated in such a mature book... Maybe the fact that I loved the name Iris; or maybe the fact that I have always had a strange fascination with wish daisies. Whatever it was, I will forever be grateful I picked it up.16 year old vegetarian Iris Wight had a strong relationship with her dad, and when he dies, she goes to live on a farm with unruly Aunt Sue and amazingly stupid cousin Book. Aunt Sue is rude, mistreating, abusive, and mistreats her livestock. Iris goes to school, avoids mean girls and foolishly hormonal high school boys, and almost falls in love. But things take a turn for the worse when, to save them from slaughter, Iris sets two goats free. Aunt Sue, so come over with rage, convinces Book to help her nearly beat Iris to death; landing them both a spot in jail. Iris, going through recovery, embarks on the quest to maintain care of the animals back on the farm- no matter what the cost. This book gave me so many valuable lessons that helped me throughout my middle school life. As a girl who is soon entering high school, I'm re-reading it for a third time. It gives me a sense of overwhelming empowerment, and the idea to always stand up for what is right, especially when everything else is wrong. I high recommend this book to all summer readers, because it will stick with you for the rest of your days.
What do You think about What Comes After [With Earbuds] (2011)?
Very, very grieving story with a great pay-off at end. Teaches the lesson of perseverance and love.
—jessicadriesel
Eh. Decent for a realistic teen fiction, but not my cup of tea.
—bla0314
Loved it!! Finished it in two hours. Five stars definitely.
—PalePheonix
A disheartening tale of abuse and making a new life.
—soccer326
