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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
challenging
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Hmmmm veel beter dan de vorige boeken, of vond ik deze beter omdat de andere zo slecht warenđ. Ik weet het niet.
Moraal van deze boeken: eerst jezelf leren kennen, dan pas relaties aangaan.
Moraal van deze boeken: eerst jezelf leren kennen, dan pas relaties aangaan.
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
wow, kids, iâve done it. i read the entire After series (minus the prequel, i donât see prequels) during quarantine. and what a ride itâs been...
firstly, we all know these books are BADâ i had a very elaborate highlighting system that i used throughout to pick apart why theyâre bad. and i don't want to beat the very dead horse of why the series is horrible because there are far more eloquent people who've already articulated why.
however, i HATE After Ever Happy. HATE IT. I would give it 0 stars if i could.
i went into this last one with reasonably high expectations (within the confines, of course, of the story) because i was promised character growth and resolution. and while you could argue we got both of those things, i think we got the absolute worst kind of it. the character growthâprecipitated by horrible plot linesâ is the most ridiculous and unbelievable 180 iâve ever seen. itâs so bad it made me miss pre-self aware Hardin, which is a sentence i never thought i would type. itâs so so so awful and clunky and does not fit with the narrative in any meaningful way other than âwell, this is the last book, guess itâs time to stop being a dick!â
i hate the way the character growth is handled, i HATE that we never saw any real resolution with any of his parental figures or had any greater discussions beyond the shock value and that one (1) convo with Ken, i hate how characters would cease to exist when they werenât convenient (literally WHERE were Kimberly and Vance through most of this) or spring into existence again for the fun of it (Robert), i HATE how addiction is talked about across this seriesâit actually makes me ill thinking about it because thereâs never much clarification on if these people know what theyâre saying is wrong, and i hate how the time jumps were so flippantly and arbitrarily used. nothing meaningful happened to anyoneâs character growth after the first time jump, so it made no sense to keep them apart for so long and be only TOLD more growth was happening offscreen. literally. no. point.
finally, what i hated the absolute most was this stupid reveal that Hardin wrote and published After, their âepic love story.â reading this passage was the most self-aggrandizing, meta bullsh*t iâve ever had the misfortune of reading, particularly chapter 74. This passage of Hardin explaining their relationship to Tessa was the most heavy-handed manipulation of the plot so the author could respond to specific criticisms (many criticisms that are valid btw) of her story and leaving us all with the impression that... how are we supposed to read this series? through a realism lens? no, thank you!!! After is trash, but itâs our trash. itâs why people like it and itâs why people hate it (i hate it). Own your sh*t, Ms. Todd, and stop taking our trash away from us!! Ultimately, adding this whole song and dance forces the reader to think more critically about everything they just read, and this story does not have the legs to withstand ~reALiSm~
Thanks, I HATE IT.
in conclusion, i thoroughly enjoyed hating this mess of a TRILOGY and will begin to purge this last one from my mind. After has been quite the quarantine adventure and iâm happy i conquered this beast! it's truly awful, but awful in a way i found it hard to look away from.
(also, this is minor, and maybe I also missed it, but I swear the wife of Landon is never mentioned by name! After the time jump to his wedding, his wife is only referred to as his wife or his bride by all of the characters. it made me crazy. Why is that? Why is there no explanation to their rush of a marriage, or what their problems wereâonly an ominous illusion that it had been a rough two years, or why they had only been back together for a few months? Like, is this Sophia or Dakota, how am I supposed to know? Why wasnât she just called her name? Am i dumb, why did this happen??? Thanks, I hate it)
firstly, we all know these books are BADâ i had a very elaborate highlighting system that i used throughout to pick apart why theyâre bad. and i don't want to beat the very dead horse of why the series is horrible because there are far more eloquent people who've already articulated why.
however, i HATE After Ever Happy. HATE IT. I would give it 0 stars if i could.
i went into this last one with reasonably high expectations (within the confines, of course, of the story) because i was promised character growth and resolution. and while you could argue we got both of those things, i think we got the absolute worst kind of it. the character growthâprecipitated by horrible plot linesâ is the most ridiculous and unbelievable 180 iâve ever seen. itâs so bad it made me miss pre-self aware Hardin, which is a sentence i never thought i would type. itâs so so so awful and clunky and does not fit with the narrative in any meaningful way other than âwell, this is the last book, guess itâs time to stop being a dick!â
i hate the way the character growth is handled, i HATE that we never saw any real resolution with any of his parental figures or had any greater discussions beyond the shock value and that one (1) convo with Ken, i hate how characters would cease to exist when they werenât convenient (literally WHERE were Kimberly and Vance through most of this) or spring into existence again for the fun of it (Robert), i HATE how addiction is talked about across this seriesâit actually makes me ill thinking about it because thereâs never much clarification on if these people know what theyâre saying is wrong, and i hate how the time jumps were so flippantly and arbitrarily used. nothing meaningful happened to anyoneâs character growth after the first time jump, so it made no sense to keep them apart for so long and be only TOLD more growth was happening offscreen. literally. no. point.
finally, what i hated the absolute most was this stupid reveal that Hardin wrote and published After, their âepic love story.â reading this passage was the most self-aggrandizing, meta bullsh*t iâve ever had the misfortune of reading, particularly chapter 74. This passage of Hardin explaining their relationship to Tessa was the most heavy-handed manipulation of the plot so the author could respond to specific criticisms (many criticisms that are valid btw) of her story and leaving us all with the impression that... how are we supposed to read this series? through a realism lens? no, thank you!!! After is trash, but itâs our trash. itâs why people like it and itâs why people hate it (i hate it). Own your sh*t, Ms. Todd, and stop taking our trash away from us!! Ultimately, adding this whole song and dance forces the reader to think more critically about everything they just read, and this story does not have the legs to withstand ~reALiSm~
Thanks, I HATE IT.
in conclusion, i thoroughly enjoyed hating this mess of a TRILOGY and will begin to purge this last one from my mind. After has been quite the quarantine adventure and iâm happy i conquered this beast! it's truly awful, but awful in a way i found it hard to look away from.
(also, this is minor, and maybe I also missed it, but I swear the wife of Landon is never mentioned by name! After the time jump to his wedding, his wife is only referred to as his wife or his bride by all of the characters. it made me crazy. Why is that? Why is there no explanation to their rush of a marriage, or what their problems wereâonly an ominous illusion that it had been a rough two years, or why they had only been back together for a few months? Like, is this Sophia or Dakota, how am I supposed to know? Why wasnât she just called her name? Am i dumb, why did this happen??? Thanks, I hate it)
