oliviadyd 's review for:

After We Collided by Anna Todd

1.0

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“How do you know we’ll fight?” “Because it’s us.”

My opinion : I will not be reading anything else by Anna Todd because her writing is excessively horrible. I could notice multiple grammar mistakes in both “After” and “After We Collided”. I’m so confused how this book got published because of these little errors and how it’s only focus is on a toxic relationship. I have two friends who are obsessed with this book series and say “After We Collided” is their favorite book of all time, well... maybe it’s time for me to give them some book recommendations back. In “After We Collided” we meet Hardins mom, a sweet woman who has gone through her own trauma. She blatantly said that she tried to put Hardin in therapy because he’s always been damaged but he refused to talk. We also learn that as a teenager Hardin did underage drinking and drugs which I wasn’t surprised by because of his party nature in book one. But, I got so disgusted and almost dnf-ed while reading about how Hardin videotaped without consent his sexual encounters with one girl and shared it around his school getting him in big trouble. He even admitted that he didn’t feel that guilty about it but only realized it was bad when thinking how angry he would be if somebody did that to Tessa. At the end of the book Hardin beats up Tessa’s friend Zed who she went on a few dates with while broken up with Hardin. Hardin almost killed Zed but Tessa made Zed promise not to do criminal charges. I’m just disgusted with this book and how it romanticizes toxic behavior, victim blaming and hurting others.

I could continue ranting about how I don’t get how anybody likes this book forever but, I’ll stop and say I do not recommend this.