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A review by esotericelixir
After Ever Happy by Anna Todd
1.0
What a train wreck of a series. What a train wreck of a relationship.
“When you love people, you don’t let them destroy you along with themselves, you don’t allow them to drag you through the mud. You try to help them, try to save them, but the moment that your love is one-sided or selfish, if you keep trying, you are a fool.”
Tessa, you said this and Tessa you are a fool.
I hate the romanticisation of abusive relationships and I hate that they ended up together.
Anna does a good job of writing a female who has been sucked in by an abusive, narcissistic sociopath to the point that they question their own behaviour and feel like they’re the problem. I would have loved this book to have had Tessa actually be recommended therapy and have gone to therapy to be able to leave this abusive clusterfuck of a relationship and hightail it out of there and not eventually go back to Hardin.
Also, of course Zed had to be made into a bad guy with only one thing on his mind. But that’s only okay for a character to be if his name is Hardin.
Moral of the story: give up everything for an abusive POS so he can have you (and your dreams) just so you can have him.
“I’m sorry that I couldn’t fix you,” I tell him while softly stroking his damp hair.
“Me, too,” he cries against my legs.”
it is never your job to fix someone. the only person you should feel responsible to heal is yourself
Harry Styles deserves better.
www.rainn.org
“When you love people, you don’t let them destroy you along with themselves, you don’t allow them to drag you through the mud. You try to help them, try to save them, but the moment that your love is one-sided or selfish, if you keep trying, you are a fool.”
Tessa, you said this and Tessa you are a fool.
I hate the romanticisation of abusive relationships and I hate that they ended up together.
Anna does a good job of writing a female who has been sucked in by an abusive, narcissistic sociopath to the point that they question their own behaviour and feel like they’re the problem. I would have loved this book to have had Tessa actually be recommended therapy and have gone to therapy to be able to leave this abusive clusterfuck of a relationship and hightail it out of there and not eventually go back to Hardin.
Also, of course Zed had to be made into a bad guy with only one thing on his mind. But that’s only okay for a character to be if his name is Hardin.
Moral of the story: give up everything for an abusive POS so he can have you (and your dreams) just so you can have him.
“I’m sorry that I couldn’t fix you,” I tell him while softly stroking his damp hair.
“Me, too,” he cries against my legs.”
it is never your job to fix someone. the only person you should feel responsible to heal is yourself
Harry Styles deserves better.
www.rainn.org