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After Ever Happy by Anna Todd

12 reviews

brittneydye19's review against another edition

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emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This whole series is beautiful

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erosekeenan's review against another edition

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emotional slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

Okay so this is a series I would recommend to someone looking for a trashy fanfiction romance novel. Because that’s all this series is. However, that being said, it’s enjoyable as a book series in the trashy romance genre. I liked it enough to buy copies and read the entire thing. It just doesn’t blow my mind.

There isn’t a whole lot of substance to the plot. It’s mainly the two main characters finding a whole lot of reasons to scream at each other and have hate sex or makeup sex or breakup sex. The characters are nothing less than toxic, but that’s the intention of the book. I don’t really think the chain of events really has the best flow, and I think if either of these characters existed in reality, they would both be truly insufferable. But when you’re in the mood for a poolside read, this would be something you could pick up and not have the worst time reading.

I say all this as someone who was wildly obsessed with this series as it was coming out. Both in book and movie form. I own copies of every book in this series and use them as poolside or beach reads on occasion. They’re not bad. They’re just not great.

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planetshelf's review against another edition

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challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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cait's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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alexia445's review

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hopeful slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.5

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jodieworton's review against another edition

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emotional sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆
This was my favourite book of all the series, it had a very different feel in the way it stopped feeling so immature. Don’t get me wrong, I have enjoyed every book I’ve read in this series and ultimately devoured them, but they all felt like something was missing, this finale had that.

The constant back and forth that Hardin and Tessa have gone through in this series is enough to want to throw the book out the window 😂 I wanted to shout at them to stop replaying their toxic ways over and over, whilst also questioning why their loved ones weren’t enforcing the concerns I was having as the reader.

Then enters Landon, Tessas best friend for all of the series who FINALLY gives her some home truths and sets the relationship of Hardin and Tessa on a different (healthier) path.

It’s an easy read, difficult at times due to the nature of their relationship but I did enjoy FINALLY seeing them grow!

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