Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

After We Fell by Anna Todd

24 reviews

brittneydye19's review

emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Rape, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Infertility

jamiejanae_6's review

emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Drug use, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

planetshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Vomit, and Stalking

Minor: Child abuse and Pregnancy

bookswstella's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Oh lord, what a book!! 

THIS freaking book?! It’s SO good🥹🥹

The three weeks I spent reading on this book was nothing but amazing. Anna really has a great way with words🤌🤌

First of all, I love the writing and the story is so good even tho it’s different! (in an amazing way ofc 🤌🤌)

This book (and the whole serie) is such a rollercoaster, it’s emotional damage and has the absolute BEST plot twists!

Anna Todd is SO good at plot twists, I got so freaking surprised by most of them, my face expressions were like this😱😯 I can tell you that I did the famous mouth slap so many times during this book, especially through all of the twists but also when it comes to the spice🔥🔥

I never thought that Steph would betray Tessa like that. I got so angry at her I started to cry, like literally, she got me so pissed off!! I didn’t think that Steph lyed to Tessa for the entire time of their “friendship”. I knew she wasn’t the best person for Tessa to hang out with but I didn’t think she would go that far.

And then there’s the twist at the end

The characters are so well described and I feel so connected to so many of them. I love Landon, Karen and Kim. I’m not sure wether I love or hate Hardin, probably both, but I am really proud over him for trying so hard. Tessa is a little too forgiving but I still love her. Tessa and Hardin probably has one of the most toxic relationship in history of book pairs but still, I cannot not ship them with each other. They have so much chemistry 👩‍🍳🤌

This book made me feel so much and so strongly, I felt happy and angry and everything in between. It even made me cry out of anger🙈🙈 

I love that a book can make me feel this much while reading, a book that makes me feel as much this book made me feel is most likely a five star from me💫💫

The only words I could say in the end was “oh my god” other than that, I was totally speechless.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

josefinemartensson's review

funny medium-paced

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

1.0

This book had NO reason being 800+ pages. I think this is the book where I truly started to lose it when it comes to Hardin and Tessa's relationship. Like, the whole first part of the book is them fighting over Tessa moving to Seattle. Hardin refuses to go with her for basically no reason at all (he’s realizing he’s a loser with no life accomplishments, and can’t stand a woman having a brighter future than him) Then halfway through the book he just changes his mind, and decides to move to Seattle!?!?! So what the hell were the 400 pages for? God, just thinking about how Hardin was in this book makes my blood boil. This book truly shows how Anna Todd has actually no idea what to do with the characters and just creates the most dumb and unnecessary situations for plot material. Like, the fact that Tessa almost got raped by Stef?!?!? FUCK HESSA

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

andriaspyrou's review against another edition

emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

The third book in the After series is just… exhausting! It’s the same cycle, the same story written all over again for the third time. Hardin fucking it up somehow, pushing Tessa away, Tessa saying she won’t give in again but somehow ends up forgiving him when he shows up promising her he’ll change and be the man she deserves. They just can’t escape one another. It’s actually exhausting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Violence, and Sexual harassment

cait's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

alexia445's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

grilledchiz's review

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death of parent

kyarabereading's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad tense slow-paced

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

1.0

I read this book series twice in my life: Once as a One-Direction-obsessed preteen and then again when the After movie came out and I wanted to remember what the original book series was like. I read them on Wattpad, so I'm talking ORIGINAL original (mainly because I would not spend my money on this trash). I have a million and one reasons why I don't like this book series, but I don't want to go through them all right now or this would be a very long review. 

I reread this series purely for the nostalgia, and I did not enjoy most of it. Yes, at times the characters were loveable and the storylines were interesting. But the series is riddled with bad writing, odd pacing, plot holes, repetitive storylines, etc. It's really not worth reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit and Car accident

Minor: Pregnancy