So I'll say it again a few tears were shed while reading this! Get off my case! Jeez. Yeah I might have cringed a little too hearing myself saying that, but hell I just read close to 3000 pages of one direction based fanfiction, what do I really have left to be embarrassed about. AEH had me laughing, had me on the edge of my seat, and even had me shedding a few tears. I can without a doubt say that the After Series is one of the most pointless things I've ever read, yet I have no regrets about how addicted I was to it. After Ever Happy, like the others in this series, still had a crazy cluster of a storyline, was still covered in flaws, and still had no real structure to it. Both Hardin and Tessa reached me on a level they never had in the previous books. I get all his rash decisions, his outburst, and how his attitude is zero dark crazy.' Then I found myself saying ' What the HELL did I just say?!?'īoth the writing style and character development in this final book is both leaps and bounds above the other three. I was just reading along minding my own business and WHAM, all of a sudden I found myself thinking ' Huh, wow I finally get Hardin.

I have NO CLUE when my opinion of Tessa changed, but I know that it was the middle of the third when Hardin finally made sense. Hardin and Tessa both turned out to be characters I ended up liking. I was hoping that even though everything they went through was so exaggerated, so overdone, far fetched, so pointless that it wouldn't end up being pointless. I was praying that Tessa and Hardin would end up together. Well guess what, I ended up doing just that. Characters that, and I quote, ' I would never end up rooting for'.

You (at least I ended up) feeling like I was going through everything with these characters.

This series is only written to be over a span of months, but instead of trying to cram all this into 200 pages she decided to just go balls to the wall and make the books as long as they needed to be. For example: I didn't understand why each book needed to be 600+ pages, but now I do. At first I thought that this series was ridiculous but after powering through it I actually completely understand its madness. As much as I hated this series, this last book won me over. I know I know, after how much crap I gave the first three how could this happen. I never in a million years thought I would be saying this.

After Ever Happy by Anna Todd