I really enjoyed this story about the different journeys grief takes us on and how Winter works to repair her relationship with her father. I loved reading how hard Winter works and her building relationship with Joon. Great story about a girl growing up.

I decided not to finish this title. There's a lot of heart, but the very staccato writing style wasn't working for me. I do suspect that All My Rage is an excellent comp, as Winter is going through some really difficult stuff for a teenager.

Winter has a challenging life. Not only does she have normal teenage issues to deal with, she also is the primary caretaker for her ailing grandmother since her own mother can’t be bothered to help. It’s been just the three of them since her dad abandoned them years ago. Eventually it becomes two…Winter and her mother. Until one day a strange woman tracks her down, determined to bring Winter and her father together again. But it’s not that simple. There are a lot of issues and feelings to wade through, and Winter isn't sure if she’s willing to put in the work. This book is full of emotions. Anger and resentment, sorrow and hope. It’s a story about honesty and forgiveness and being true to yourself. Definitely five stars!

A moving story featuring Winter Moon, a Korean teen who lives with her halmoni (grandmother) whom she loves and now takes care of and her shallow, despicable mother. She works after school and is saving her money to take herself and halmoni away. But when her mother steals her money (did I say she was despicable?), she finds herself agreeing to a contract to spend time with her father whom she’s never known, but who finds her. At first Winter spends time with him to get the money he pays her after each visit, but after a while she begins to enjoy the time with Sung as well as his wife Helena and daughter Avery.
Great read.

I wish I could read All the Tomorrows After for the first time all over again! This is no minor undertaking at 400 pages, but what a sweeping, emotional, gripping novel from Joanne Yi. It is totally deserving of its praise!

We get to know Winter Moon, whose story is sort of heartbreaking from the start. She deals with betrayal, loss, and fear after her mother steals her lifelong savings - and her vehicle for escape from the life she’s known. Enter her estranged father and all of the complicated, complex, uncertain elements that relationship - or lack thereof - brings to Winter’s life.

Winter is so likable it’s almost confounding. She’s a teenager, and she does things a teenager would do, grapples with questions a teenager has, but also has to contend with traumas and life-changing bombshells brought upon her by her estranged father and the mother who betrayed her. And all the while, I had an open heart and was thoroughly rooting for her. She has rich character development, feels really authentic and real, perfectly flawed and abundantly forgiving. She’s a really wonderful protagonist and I think because of Yi’s careful creation of Winter Moon, a book centered around her was amazingly easy to read.

I’m so grateful to have been given the chance to read this book! It broke my heart wide open and I’m so glad I got to have that experience. Thanks so much to the publisher and NetGalley for this e-arc!

Went into this book with 0 expectations and came out with a new perspective on how we overlook sometimes the simple mundane things in life. This book is very grief heavy. It’s also very challenging to read a character who just seems so miserable. However, watching Winter bloom and slowly come into herself and open herself up to others was so rewarding. This book felt raw and real. The romance was also very pure and realistic. I think Joon brought out the best in Winter and also reiterates the message that some people come into your life for a reason. I also enjoyed the kpop/k-drama references in the story and learning more about Korean culture. This is a good book to read when you really want to be in your feels and let out a good cry. The author note in the back was also insightful and helped me better understand why the story was about and why the author wrote it.

This book surprised me in the best of ways. When I first started reading, I was unsure whether I would be able to make it through--the characters were hard and unlikable. But as I got further into the story, I became completely engrossed. This is a high interest story that gives students exposure to Korean words, Korean food, and some traditions, as well as more universal experiences of American teenage-hood. I really appreciate everything about the journey the characters go on and the ways in which they learn to navigate their different communities. A great read for a unit on identity development, personal voice, and/or community.

There are some slightly (appropriately, realistically) spicy moments that would be good to warn students about ahead of a recommendation as well as some abuse and mentions that are within the realm of suicide/suicidal ideation. A definite recommend for 9-12 graders.

I was really loving this book until halfway through when it started to drop off. Where I was flying through it before, I began to skim through parts at the end.

It had been just Winter and her grandmother for as long as she could remember. Her father left when she was young and her mother was absent and abusive at times. This story details Winter navigating her grief as her grandmother’s health declines and she begins to feel all alone in the world.

Along the way, she meets Joon who has also experienced grief and where she makes it hard for anyone to be there for her, he finds a way. They form a sweet friendship that turns into something more. Winter begins to reconnect with her father and when grief sinks back in, she pushes everyone away yet again. This is where the author lost me as things began to drag. I wanted to see Winter through as I was invested in her character, but I was just not satisfied with the end.

This was one of those reads where I feel like I wasted my time becoming emotionally invested in the characters and I hate that :/

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the arc of this book. All
Opinions are my own.

This was good! I enjoyed it. I read a lot of romance, but I always love new to me authors and this was one. I enjoyed the writing style and think this was super good! Definitely intrigued to read more.

I received a complimentary copy of this book "All the Tomorrows After" and all opinions expressed are my own. This book would be an awesome audiobook. I didn't know how to pronounce the Korean words and I would love to listen to the book. You have to feel for Winter, she is trying her best but things keep bringing her down, mostly her mother. I loved how she took care of her Halmoni. Everyone has dreams. Overall I did like this book. If I see the audiobook sometime I will definitely listen to it.

Winter always felt like she was losing. Watching her Halmoni wither away, wondering why her dad left, and living with a mother who was physically present but emotionally absent—someone who had ‘abandoned’ her in every way that mattered.

She longed for things that felt just out of reach: a mother who looked at her with love, a father who stayed simply because he wanted to, and the privilege to imagine a life beyond high school—a future filled with hope. But hope felt like a luxury she couldn’t afford. Because deep down, she questioned, "Do I even deserve something good?"

That question lingers, then echoes louder when her mother steals the life savings she’d quietly built—money meant for her escape. Just like that, Winter is back at square one. And then, in a twist she never expected, her estranged father reappears, eager to reconnect for reasons of his own. He even offers to pay her for her time. And she accepts.

This book is a tender unraveling of grief, lost hope, wasted time, self-pity, guilt, anger, first love, complicated family dynamics, healing, facing hard truths, rediscovering hope—and ultimately, acceptance.

Joanne masterfully portrays the grief not only of losing loved ones, but of losing dreams. She makes it raw, real, and heartbreakingly relatable. You can’t help but root for Winter as she navigates what many couldn't imagine enduring—especially at her age.

I was especially struck by this line: “I’ve longed to leave myself behind and emerge anew. But I am already living my life. Here, in the present. It’s messy, and cruel at times, and surprising at times. Still, it belongs to me. It is within me.” A reminder that even amidst the chaos, we are still whole, still worthy, and still becoming.

I am beyond grateful to @simonteen for the eARC! This was such a spectacular read and a first for me from @, but definitely not my last. Please pick this up when it’s out!