I present to you all, for your enjoyment and entertainment, my review of the book After by Anna Todd. Needless to say, I wasn't a fan. Social Media: Instagram: / fulloflit Goodreads: / daria Thanks so much for watching!!
QueenZaqqum I read it years ago so I don’t remember. But I know it was pretty bad. Christian was possessive and abusive. Anna was fucking annoying. Can’t tell you much more....
I'm sorry that happened, I hope you're doing better. I hate Hardin with all my heart, next rape will be romanticized as "oh he loves me so much he's forcing me to see his love" 😒
I'm sorry this happened to you. All those crazy fans should know that in reality that's not desirable at all and know that there's people like you who know the truth behind those relationships; they are not meant to be romanticized.
I'm not in a relationship at all but I can understand you so much!! These type of books and movies are not romantic!! Some girls need to wake up and see that the world isn't butterflies with roses and petals. My advice is that you have to be alone with yourself so you learn how to love and respect yourself and after that be able to share your life with someone. If you are just like Hardin aka a person who really needs help from specific people (psychiatrist) and you don't love, respect nor understand why are you like this then you should take a step back and think about how to get help. Don't destroy someone else's life because you have problems. It's not their fault. P.S: these goes to both genders. I hope you're doing well 💗
honestly even if she was....it's been several years since she published it intiially- I would hope they would learn in that period of time. Also, like- shame on the publisher for not taking this into account? I know they just wanna make money and they saw this as profitable but still.
Allison M oh I didn’t realize it’s been out that long. But honestly even at 19 i would never even imagine half of the stuff in that book, let alone write it. 🤷🏽♀️
Hate the fact that saving a girl and not taking advantage of a drunk girl is considered GREAT and AWESOME and HEROIC and NICE and REDEEMABLE. It shouldn't be an out-of-this-world thing. This should be a normal thing to do! This is what a normal human being should do!
1 billion reads isn't even as much as it sounds on wattpad, because each time you click over to the next chapter, it's another read. So if one person reads 50 chapters, that's 50 reads lmfao.
So I went to Wattpad and After has 521M reads with 99 chapters which means it has around 5,265,626 full reads. Some of those must be repeats and others people like me that tried to read it but didn't like it
One of the scariest things about this book is how it teaches young girls to keep their standarts extremly low. He doesn't molest or hits you? He shows very basic human decency in once a blue moon? Then he's the dream boyfriend, apperently! I had a friend in high school who loved these types of books. She would always describle her favorite book boyfriends and all the twisted shit they do their love interest like it was the greatest love story in the world, because she geniuenly thought men being abusive pricks was romantic. All because of books like After an 50 Shades. I never saw her again after gradution. Hope her outlook got better, for her sake.
This book openly puts down other girls, romanticizes cheating and toxic relationships, and has the most loathsome protagonists that Molly has become my favourite character. And Landon, he’s a cinnamon roll. Can’t believe that young impressionable people (not just young girls, because not just girls read fan fiction) are going to read this and think this is healthy and how relationships should work, and that Tessa is a good role model for girls. Please. It’s 2020. Can we please make “two people who love each other and respects the other’s boundaries, with fluffy moments abound” the hot new ship dynamic? Also, is that the Titan’s curse on your shelf I see? I see you are a woman of culture!
The book teaches girls that if a guy is abusive one day he‘ll change and everything will be fine. But the world doesn‘t work like that. I think this book sends wrong messages. It‘s a youth book, some teenagers won‘t get that. I‘m 21 I can tell right from wrong but some younger girls can‘t, like I couldn‘t with 13 to 16.
Well actually that’s not exactly the way it is. During THREE of FOUR books they teach us that if relationship is toxic and your partner is unhealthy, he’s not going to change. And Harry didn’t change. He did her dirty over and over again. Until they separated for two months, then five months, then two years. And during this time, admit, a person CAN change. But when they were in a relationship, nothing changed, nothing was fine.
Can we rename this book to 'How to write an abusive relationship'? This generally scares me that this kind of stuff is out in the world and teaching young people that this is "okay" and "healthy" because it sooooo is not...
I’m amazed that so many people support this toxic relationship. I might just grab my UFO and return to my home planet bc earth is so dangerous hier. They always make a fuss and make up by having sex. Kinda weird and a red flag to me
It's not even just this book. Even 'classics' like Twilight or City of Bones and the likes have these terrible tropes. One of the reasons I generally dont touch young adult romance unless it's recommended by trusted sources. It's scary to think what this does to young girls who have no idea how a relationship should actually look like
I literally had to force myself to finish book one and two. I really hated Tessa’s character . She was definitely TOO judgmental and thinks she’s better than every other girl just cause she’s a virgin and doesn’t wear revealing clothes
Honestly I just want a character who is clean cut to be genuinely nice for once. I feel like all those characters are shown to be lying, it's not that hard to be decent person.
I was twelve years old when I first read this book. For me, the main reason of why they still together is because she's supposed to fix him and make him a good person. Tessa obviously has a savior complex. She thinks she can make him better in some sort of way, and through all of her attempts, the book is swiftly telling us that we should try in all of our relationships to save the other person, so they can stay with us. Its like saying "If you stay long enough, and love them above everything else and have faith in them, they can change for good, and they will definitely be with you". That's bullshit. Thanks to examples like this I fell in love with this girl who didn't (and still doesn't) give a crap about me. I thought that if I try to "save her", she would fall in love with me and we would be together. She only hurt me every single time like Hardin did with Tessa and sometimes even worse. You don't have to save anybody. Nobody has to save you. You save yourself. I'm not saying is bad to stay by your partner's side when they are going through rough times. But you have to remember you don't have to go through anybody else's bullshit so you can deserve to be loved.
Another thing that's gross is "Hardin" being originally based on Harry Styles. One of the most KIND and RESPECTFUL human beings. That happens a lot in fanfics, a real life person is used to make an abusive and disgusting character. I don't get, man..
as someone who loves fanfiction, i hate that so much. Fan-fiction that uses real people as it's subject matter is called Real People Fiction (or rpf) and is the nastiest, most disgusting thing to think about. People treating real life human beings as fandoms always weirded me out, and RPF is one of the worst products of that. Write what you want about ficticious characters, they're ficticious. But keep real people with real feelings out of it.
@@tweedlebug123 so would someone writing a fanfic about, let’s use Harry Potter as an example, characters from Harry Potter okay? B/c they are fictional charters and stuff?
@@salysie Yeah, those characters aren't real people, they won't get affected because they are just characters. Real-person fiction can actually affect the people that it's about and has been known to break friendships about the actual people it was about because it was so weird.
The *only* reason this book was even published was because it has _1 BILLION_ reads on Wattpad but honestly that means little to nothing. I know how wattpad works. Their old algorithm was simply, flip to the next chapter in a book, thats a read. Even if you didn't even READ the chapter. Simply clicking it count as a read. That went on for a bit until they changed it and nowadays you have to read up to a certain point, usually more than halfway, to get 1 read. Each chapter counts as 1 read, so with 101 "chapters", 1 reader alone is *101 reads*. and 2 of said chapters are a warning at the beginning and a news update at the end, which still garner "reads" towards the book. I'm not impressed with _1 BILLION_ reads. It's not an accurate count of how many people actually read the entire book and doesn't account for re readers. Many of the books with over 25 million reads on Wattpad are like that because of the faulty algorithm back then and they are similar quality to AFTER. Wattpad focused solely on the number of reads this book has and ran with it despite how poorly written it is.
As a fanfiction writer (on ao3 and ffnet) I honestly feel insulted that _this_ gets so much popularity. Mostly because the story is awful and with after and 50 shades fanfiction in general gets bad reputation. There have been so many well written stories about abusive relationships that actually deliver a message to the audience. I find After a completely cliche story and the only reason it got popular on Wattpad was because it was a 1D fic
The bar was literally on the ground, Zed nudged it with his foot, and Tessa thought, "My god, what a good man!" That's really depressing when you think about the implication of how shitty all the other men in her life must be.
"BuT iT's FiCtIoN iT's NoT rEaL sO iT sHoUlDn'T mAtTeR" is my favorite excuse when it comes to stories like this. Fiction has an effect on real life and this kind of stuff marketed to a young audience can be extremely damaging. But no, it didn't actually *happen* , so it's okay to romanticize the good-looking abusive white boy because he's *damaged* and he needs *true love* to fix him. Because co-dependent toxic relationships are what we should all be striving for, clearly.
Personally I love books when there is a bit of hate, abuse, ... in it. I know it’s messed up, but that’s why I read books. To escape to real world and create my own fantasies. And fantasies are usually meant to stay fantasies. Because no way in hell would I ever want to be in a abusive relationship. I like a good book where there is an evolution between 2 characters. Hate to love is my favourite Thorpe. So for me I don’t mind it at all. Now, the books aren’t made for a young public tho. I would say 18+ should be standard when it comes to these kind of books. Because I agree it’s damaging if you read this type of stuff at a young age. Now, it’s very difficult to protect a young person with all the stuff that can be found on the internet. That’s where the problem begins IMO. No safe place if they can just search Whatever they want online. So the problem is not necessarily the books.
Real talk for a second. I, a girl, was a Hardin to my friends. I have no excuse. All I can say for myself is that I became my abusers that I despised so much. I was horrible to almost all of my friends and the worst part is I didn't even realize how toxic I was until I got to college and finally someone told me to my face how gross and manipulative and narcissistic I was. Even now, two years later, I wouldn't have understood my behavior for what it was if no one stood up to me. I was a bully that compared her problems to others and didn't help or support anyone, even when they were suicidal, and I'm so ashamed. To this day I still have no social skills and I am terrified of getting close to people because I hurt so many people that I genuinely cared about. I'm alone and I know now that I deserve it, that I have no one to blame but myself. If I read this and similar YA books when I was in high school or younger I might have become even worse because I would have felt justified in my behavior. I may not have been able to reflect after I was told off and realize that every terrible thing that was said about me was true. I may have continued to believe that I was the real victim and everyone was against me. I'm horrified to think that girls similar to myself probably read this and saw their own abusive behaviors towards peers and boyfriends be validated.
Purely Bloom at least you noticed your mistakes. Some people will always believe that everything they do is right and they can never understand that what they did was wrong. You can be proud of yourself because you understood how wrong your actions were!
You writing this shows how much you grow as a person and how you realize your mistakes. Don't worry my friend, You're a better person now and you don't deserve to be alone.
I was the exact same way. I would hurt people I cared about. For me, the thing that was horrible, was that I knew I was being abusive. I didn't want to be abusive. It didn't make me happy like how with other people. I just didn't know how to handle my thoughts and bad behaviors. And I feel bad knowing I took it out on other people. I'm scared to get close to other people, as well. All we can do is work to be better people. I'm rooting for you
Girl you have me ROLLING. I revisited this book after a few years and my only reaction now is a giant facepalm. The scary thing is that it does truly glorify abuse and tries to make it sexy. Sucks how there are plenty of better stories that could have been picked up and even made it as a motion picture but alas....we get this trash.
"it's okay because he loves me" is the reason I stayed in a horribly toxic-bordering-on-abusive relationship for months longer than I should have. seeing it romanticized in books like this is honestly kind of triggering and it's a disgusting example to set for readers; I don't think fiction can't portray toxic/abusive relationships, but framing them as romantic or desirable sends a really dangerous message.
I had a Hardin in my life for six years. I almost ended up doing something very bad to myself, because in the end I saw it as the only way to get away from that person. It was like my home was my prison. I also did seriously consider killing him, just to get out. He was a manipulative, cruel, jealous monster. After I left I've had to live with a concealed identity for several years, almost ended up being homeless because he took everything from me, not only a large sum of money and many years of my life, but also my self confidence, my self respect and my dreams for the future. And that is what a Hardin does.
In the second book you find that this was all a bet (him getting close to her and all) and he actually shows the used condom and bloody sheets to his" friends" and she still dates him. This is the worst book I've ever encountered.
@@blabla0059 It might be. My memory is weak but now that you point it out I can remember a bit. But I think the confrontation was in the second one unless I'm wrong
I know a lot of girls who have been pressured to lose their virginity and it was horrible for them. So it did piss me off when everyone was so fucking surprised when they find out Tessa is a virgin. Like, leave her alone.
Heathcliff and Catherine would still beat the ever-loving shit out of Tessa and Harding and leave them in the dust. Heathcliff and Catherine's story is NOT to be read as a cute, sweet, "I want this" love story. It's a story of pettiness, misery, betrayal, revenge, selfishness and manipulation. Wuthering Heights is my favourite EngLit novel and I HATE these two shitty characters comparing themselves to Mr Darcy and Elizabeth AND Heathcliff and Catherine. It's foul, a disgrace to all Classic Literature. Anyone who has read "After" (a """love story""") and says "Oh nice, it's like P&P or WH" hasn't understood either of these last books.
I actually started reading the Wattpad book, and the most recent scene I got to had Tessa getting mad at Harry (cause he's Harry Styles in the Wattpad book) because he 1) Entered her room and proceeded to insult her about the fact she had an alarm set (cause she was taking a nap or some crap) 2) Looked through her things, and 3) start taking out her things and stomping on her papers. Tessa knows he's rude, but then their faces get close and Tessa just?? Her anger is replaced with teenage hormonal sexual desire?? and they make out?? The conflict and Harry's complete disrespect is totally forgotten because Tessa wanted him to kiss and make out with her. It was really sickening. If you want to read the story to make fun of it for how bad it is, go ahead. Otherwise, don't read it. It teaches terrible lessons on how a romance novel should be, and has one of the most toxic relationships I've seen in a book.
I totally agree, 100%!!! After is not a book for young people, it is awful. It’s not very well written at all, and I know this even though English isn’t my first language. Total lack of good role models and feminism. But still I find myself fascinated by the story and in book 3 and 4 Tessa does leave Hardin to get out their toxic relationship, to find her true self and to live her own life. The books are still poorly written and the ending is not to my standards. But somehow the story got to me and I really love it. To my defense - I’m 36 years and I know the difference between fiction and reality. I can read a book and know that it doesn’t necessarily reflect how it should be in reality. Anyway - great review! Thank you for your valid opinion! // an Afternator
i started reading the wattpad book so i could screenshot it and make fun of it with my discord server but then it got to the point tessa was nearly sexually assaulted and that was only placed there just to get hardin and tessa in the same room together and make out and that's when i quit
My problem with the book n about tessa is the fact that shes always like "oh, im not the same girl i used to be." But shows no signs of any type of character growth, shes still the same! NOTHING CHANGED, SHE STILL SUCKS!!
@@myonnareads okay come in Bulgaria and end me. You are talking about impossible things. We are in the real life and After is talking about what happened in the real life.
The first time I have read "After" I was 16 years old and I thought it was so romantic that the good girl Tessa wants to make the bad boy Hardin a better person. Now I am 24 - I have read the books again🙄... And wow I have changed so much that I cannot accept such kind of toxic relationship. Even if it's just a book series. This book really sends a twisted message to young readers😏... So THANK YOU for your video.
Personally I cannot stand hypocrites and Tessa was one of the most hypocritical people in the universe and she was the reason I hated this book so much. Yeah, I was pretty much all bad, but Tessa... Ugh I hated her so much. I thought you were supposed to see yourself in main characters and love them and root for them... UGH Edit: I feel I need to clarify that what Tessa was going through is horrific and there were points where I did genuinely feel for her, but she isn't an overly great person either. I dont want to undermine the absolutely awful circumstances of her relationship because her situation was very clearly abusive
For me, that I openly will say I was in an abusive and unhealthy relationship, reading a book which glorifies that makes me sad. It's this the society? I forced myself to read it, and cry a lot of times remembering my ex-bf touching me when I didn't want to, having sex with me when I was drunk or him telling me how I provoke that. Girls looking after this kind of guys, don't do it, listen to other people bc it's the worst thing that happened in my life. And the worst it's the breakup when you see yourself in the mirror and think how fat, ugly or idiot you are and that's why he dumps you. Anorexia, bulimia, and depression are some of the effects I suffered after everything. When I realised it wasn't my fault I was in such a deep hole I could barely take myself out. This author could think that's normal, but it's awful and makes you think you're the trash of the relationship when there's a fight or a breakup. Please, don't follow her step on the perfect relationship, from the bottom of my heart I beg you that
okay so i literally just finished reading the first book about 10mins ago and had to get clarity. i found your video and i am pleasantly surprised to find that i am not going insane. at first i was like, okay this could be a cute romance story but then no jokes it makes me wanna scream. SO many times i screamed at the book whilst reading it, how could someone be so stupid to go back to a man whore who literally proved time and time again that he is the epitome of an asshole?!? this is too much to handle, helpppp!! but thanks for being the person to call it out publicly! i hope all the young persuaded readers can see your video and see that relationships should not be this way, it’s so unhealthy!!
I grew up in the era of Twilight and I remember actively defending those books to my friends (including the Renesmee shizz) but this... I mean Twilight at least had some relatively interesting world-building, lore and fantasy elements, even if they were SIGNIFICANTLY underused and/or retconned... What is the actual pull of these books? Is it the drama? The explicit sex? The fact that it's meant to be poor old Harry Styles? I don't understand it. Even the movie toned both Tessa and Hardin's assholery ALL the way down, but all that seemed to do was make the movie really slow and boring which is, frankly, extremely telling about what this author believes plot and character development are.
Did we learn NOTHING from 50 shades of grey? Edit: I will say one thing if the pride and prejudice scene happened in universe someone was live tweeting the tea
everything about this!!! Honestly the problems with After need to be called out! It’s not just the first book the entire series is a complete mess and sends extremely damaging messages to young girls. I really hope whenever the movie comes out people will stumble upon this and choose not to see it.
FullofLit a lot of people say that love ends up changing Hardin and idk like not only do I think that sends a horrible message to young girls to stay in bad relationships because they can change them, but it’s completely unrealistic! From everything I’ve heard about Hardin he’s got problems that only he can fix and no trying to diagnose him with any sort of mental illness but I think he sounds like he needs therapy.
They're changing the movie so it isn't as abusive, as the book. They're making Hardin's character much less of an asshole in the movie than in the book.
riley sunderland love doesn't change Hardin in the series at all.. I have read a few chapters from all the 3-4 books and he still stays an abusive, manipulative asshole.
See, this book series HELPED me rid of my abusive partner/ex. Reading everything I was going through, characters being so similar to myself and my partner at the time in real life and living life EXACTLY like After actually made me see that what I was going through wasn’t okay. Breaking up, making up, have that internal misogyny, just I was a living, breathing Tessa. And the guy I was with was a living, breathing Hardin. In the eyes of someone being emotionally abused, what you see isn’t what anyone else sees. Everyone else sees every problematic detail within the relationship, and tells you but you just deny it and go “But...”. I have changed as a person and I’m not so much like Tessa anymore, but yeah, I was a virgin until this partner and yeah my style and thought process and just everything about Tessa is/was me. When reading this book series, in my mind I was thinking “This isn’t okay, Tessa needs to leave him.” Whilst as the same time saying “Wow these characters are like ____ and I.” So eventually I added two and two together and left, which wasn’t easy considering I’m extremely forgiving and naïve, I know I am and I can’t help that. It really makes me mad that people are hating on a book that brings these kinds of relationships to light. If there weren’t books like this, I would still be manipulated into similar situations and being messed around a whole bunch. Yeah, it’s not good AT ALL for readers who are under the age of 18 (16 maybe but that’s a stretch) to be thinking it’s okay for someone to treat them like this or romanticise most of the events that occur. I think there should be a disclaimer at least, or even rewriting the book completely to apply the message to reach out if you’re in this situation because it’s not okay, if you experience this you should reach out, but a novel along the lines of, or this exact novel, shouldn’t be completely shut down and taken off the shelves because of a FICTIONAL relationship. As I said, reading this made me realise what I was going through and putting two and two together made me leave, but there should be age restrictions for the people who wouldn’t be old enough to understand or a disclaimer and numbers available for anyone experiencing similar situations. This probably made no sense it’s 12am and I’m tired so forgive me.
I’ve never watched one of your videos before but I already think you’re great. Demand more from books. Women have had too many terrible cardboard characters for far too long.
21:40 well said We tend to forget about this nowadays since movies and books like this one convey this wrong message that there isn’t love without pain which is wrong and leads to tolerating toxic relationships and frame them as “normal” relationships.
I read the first book. got half way through the second, but couldn't go any farther because I just couldnt take their bullshit anymore. didnt even touch the third book
Lol i didnt even read the books just ends Basically the end of the third book is Tessa and Hardin not being together for like a year and she hate/dont like Hardin, they met at friends wedding and he just say ONE sentence about them being soul mates or some shit and she like fucking melts a says that she lovea HIM after a year of not being together.. Then theres Hardin banging Tessa on womens bathroom counter on friends wedding and he kinda proposed her and she said yes...Like inside of bathroom. She didnt even think about it... WHAT THE HELL
Since your trailer response I picked up the book. I'm 22% in and I completely agree with your comments about the manufactured angst and the constant breaking up. Great analysis! Great video!
I kind of hate the trope and cliche so much that I'm totally disgusted by When a female character getting SA by male person after the love interest save her or the female character get cheated on the love interest just only excuse is for a plot device or shock value or just never brought up the SA or the cheating in story Only excuse is for the love interest to look better
In the trope I kind of hate is that the male character who supposed to be the love interest to the female and the male character is a very very very violent beating the s*** out of a person to death and become a serial killer
I read all of them at the same time I fell in love myself and every single time Hardin did something manipulative and abusive and Tessa claimed she was in love I was like "lol no sweetie"
One of the biggest mistakes of my life if not the biggest mistake was to read this damn book.I don't even know why I went through such torture.I just kept thinking that maybe they would get better and they never did.
You have said Everything I was thinking after I was done with this bad no (horrible book) I-just I was so angry about HOW the SA was handled that’s NOT okay at all and I was also thinking about the 13-15 year old teenagers reading this thinking “so this is what love is” NO ITS NOT. This book made me PISSED. this book is a whole RED FLAG. I will die on that hill! It’s SO TOXIC
I was telling myself to at least get halfway through, but I just couldn't. I didn't know who I wanted to punch the hardest: Tessa, Hardin, Noah or Tessa's mom?
I am so sick of stories/movies like this blowing up in the box offices because of teen girls flocking to toxic Wattpad stories 🙄 TOXICITY IS NOT ROMANTIC! And that is the exact message I based my story around to send a message that some people can’t escape it and two of you can’t then you kill him. Simple.
As a writer I’m really hard on myself with making a good story with well rounded characters. And then fluff like this not only gets huge but a movie deal? Maybe I should just give up and write some toxic selling my soul to a bad boy shit
I used to be in love with this series. I first read it on wattpad in 2014 and reread it when it was published. Now I’m 22 and rereading it again and it’s horrible. The grammar and just the content itself, is horrible. I never realized the abusive relationship at 18 years old but now I do (after learning it and being in one). I idolized this book so much, and it tries to teach the lesson that you can change a person or a person will change for you if they really love you. I got myself into an abusive relationship and would remember this book because Hardin “changed” for Tessa and Tessa stuck around. Not a good role modeling book for young girls. Also, Tessa is just dumb. She pisses me off so much because she’s hypocritical and immature. As much of an asshole Hardin is, I have to say I love his character change. He changes by working on his anger and becoming kinder. It’s not much but I like that part. Plus there’s way too much drama in such short period of times.
Also, one more thing about the part where Tessa almost gets assaulted - from the quote that was read, Hardin said something like "You're not used to these kinds of situations." and that is just... No. Like, how the fuck can you even b e used to being assaulted??? It makes no sense??????
Okay everyone. Just one thing. How tf can a book have 1.5 billion views when wattpad only has 65 million users. Well I'll tell you why.. if a wattpad story has 50 chapters. And one person reads all 50 chapters, that equals 50 reads. So divide After's views by 99 chapters and you'll get about 5 million people. 😧😧
Please PLEASE review After We Collided by Anna Todd!!! I love your honesty and your comments are so true and funny. Please review it!!! I'm now on the second book, and have a lot of indifferent feelings about it and was hoping that you could read it and be honest.
i really hope that the movie is better and portrays their relationship differently. As you said, some people read it, because its a fun, filled of drama story and maybe dont take it too seriously. I kinda enjoyed it, because it brought back memories from my first "love" experience. I was head over heels in love with a guy who treated me so well when we would see each other, but then he would send me vengeful and downright mean messages saying that he s done with me, blocking me and then HE would be the one to contact me and say he's sorry. it was this circle that wouldnt stop, because i thought maybe just this once he would change:)) so i kinda understand the relationship between tessa and hardin and i wouldnt wish for something like that on anyone. Their story stuck with me, because of what ive experienced. Its true that they get a happy ending, but guess what, that rarely happens in real life. I finally opened my eyes and ran for the hills after almost one full year of crying and going back and forth. when he would message me i started shaking like i was very cold and then it struck me that i was so anxious because of what he might say to me. it was awful, nobody had that control over me ever.
Not to mention the way Anna Todd handles sexual assault in book 3 and used it as a story arc and completely disregards the seriousness of the topic and acts like it’s just another rift in their relationship
So this is just 50 shades for teens? ....fantastic. If we are going to continue the trend of turning fanfics into books and movies......can we at least pick the good ones?
i once read this creepypasta story that told the perspective of a fictional killer , and that story was more well - written and made me feel for the characters more than this bullshit ever could .
I love this review!!!! You honestly make me want to read the books like in a very critical way! I am 21 years old and not some 15 year old so I know what i'm looking for. Thank you for this review!
I read the entire series and was appalled of the lack of focus on mental health. Todd could have used this as a platform to push for being healthy and mentally sound. Hardin needed therapy and Tessa needs friends!
I feel like this book is cliche and they should make a movie on an actual book that is good and original. but since everyone is buzzing about it I have to read it
Honey, this is by far my favorite review of this book. I'm a writer and you've just inspired a new character for me. Don't ever change and never be afraid of putting your opinions out there.
I just finished the book and this showed up in my recommended. This book was infuriating and toxic. It was amazing when I was 13/14 but rereading it now I’m so annoyed 🙄
A good book should convey deep, life-effecting, riveting messages. It should also, unsurprisingly, has good writing, layered characters, logical plots, etc. A lot of people who read as a passion take books as more than just 'entertainment', reading becomes a slightly more complex and beautiful thing. So when a publication allows superficial characters and shallow plots to be legitimately published, it becomes annoying. After doesn't have layered plots and characters at all, it has a ridiculous amount of silly tropes as well it's repelling. From book 1 to the final book you don't get character development, the two protagonists don't move from the same place where they were when they were first introduced. And the amount of characters written just as accessories for the main characters is ridiculous. Anna Toad really did write a book, but not necessarily a good one.
My cynical side tells me that it's possible these authors know that the relationships they depict are toxic, but do it anyways because of 50 Shades' success, and somehow it works (at least for this one). Basically a quick cash grab, because the other possibility which was raised by Dom's review of the Shades books is that the author self incerts not in the girl, but the abusive guy, and that's a much more terrifying possibility.
I agree with everything you were saying after is literally one of the worst books I have ever read. not only the book is a handful of breakup/make up series between the two characters and how the book glorifies abuse and toxic relationships, but OMFG THE DETAILS IN THE BOOK IS TOO FREAKING MUCH like if we took all the unnecessary details and description each book would be 200 pages max! I am so glad that I wasn't the only one annoyed by this. and if you think the scene where Tessa and Hardin have their first kiss is bad, omfg wait till I tell you that in the 3rd book Tessa was drugged by Steph and helped Dan to take advantage of Tessa while she is intoxicated. he didn't do anything cuz Molly called someone to open the door and save Tessa but the guy dan still touched Tessa in places like her thighs. when Hardin found it he was giving her hug to be their for her while they were broken up. a few days later Tessa moves to Seattle and Hardin surprises her, and they have an intimate moment where hardin LITERALLY brings her sexual assault and says that he is the only one that is allowed to touch her that way like what the actual fuck- like I was about to vomit while I was reading like how can someone just whitesmith like that. Tessa also finds her long lost dad as a homeless man and she invites him and feeds him in her and Hardin's place, throughout the whole time Tessa's dad was in their place I shit you not hardin was calling her dad a junkie a homeless addict and much much more horrible things on front of Tessa. hardin never gets better throughout the 3 books I still have one more but like I literally don't have the motivation to continue reading it. the movie imo is way better and hardin is not that much of an asshole to Tessa in the movie (he is an asshole but not as bad as in the book)
"It is what it is and what it is , is dumb " haha I can't stop laughing. Seriously though a girl literally came at me because I said I didn't like the book. According to her it's a representation of a " real relationship ". I have no words honestly
