Well, this shit was shittier than the rest.Harry's/Hardin's story is as dumb as it is filthy and Tessa is a joke as usual. I don't know why there was another book in this God forsaken series to reiterate that. Supposedly this is from Hardin's point of view, but there's nothing new. Or good for that matter. And there's a bunch of chapters from different perspectives to justify other asshole characters' assholeishness. Phew.If I could only go back in time and stop myself from reading this! 🥱

Well i'm sorry to say this but this book is a waste of time.... :( if you ve read AFTER you don't need to read this book it's exactly the same ( there's only 10 chapters that are new from HARDIN pov ) i'm so disappointed !!! ...... i was so excited when Anna annonced that there will be another book in the After's serie now i'm sad !

'Before' is a companion novel to the 'After' series told from mainly Hardin's POV, with a few others thrown in there as well. Being inside Hardin's head was everything I expected it to be! His inner turmoil, his fight between wanting to be better but not quite knowing how, it was heartbreaking. This was way more than just a retelling, we get a little backstory for some key characters (which I loved), plenty of scenes that were not in 'After', and of course the future scenes with their HEA. My on...

I am finally finished with this series. Did a full video review for this book on my YouTube channel, you can hear more of my thoughts here: https://youtu.be/xUrAdR5caF0

Don't mind me saving these quotes for myself 🥰 💕 for a quick relishing and reliving of #hessa's journey I hope and pray my #hessa is enjoying their best life with my babies Emery Auden among the stars 🌌🌃and I really hope the third nugget is on his/her way 🤍🖤 "I’m battling within myself: the good boy who loves the good girl and the bad boy who’s too broken to love anyone are fighting with swords. Each one wants something different from the princess. The boy in black gets knocked to the gro...

difficult childhood is no excuse for being an asshole. save your valuable time and don’t read this.

I'm kinda disappointed in the low reviews. I liked it. A lot.***Maybe some Spoilers***PART 1: THIS was the Before part. I thought it was good to have some insight to four other girls in Hardin's life.... Natalie, Molly, Melissa (Dan's sister), and Steph. I especially liked Molly's chapter. It actually makes me hate her a little bit less. PART 2: This is basically After from Hardin's POV. Sometimes I hate entire books devoted to another's POV but Hardin struggled so much that I really wanted his

I'm so disappointed from this one. The most important stuff were missing. It was just messy with no purpose. I expected so much more.

I felt obligated to read this because I'd already suffered through the rest of the series, and I couldn't just.. not finish it. But my god. This entire series is so, so awful. And I'm a sucker for crappy entertainment, so that's saying a lot. Worst characters ever. Hardin is a sh*thead, through and through. The fact that he eventually becomes capable of developing feelings for another human does not negate his sh*thead status, especially since he only becomes capable of those feelings because he...

2 starsThis was a good 'behind-the-scenes' addition to the After series. It gave readers a glimpse of some scenes from Hardin's perspective but also allowed readers to gain a better understanding for some of the characters with a look at their backgrounds. I did think this novel was unnecessary when it came to the overall picture of the After series in general. You could easily skip this book and be just as happy with the conclusion from "After Ever Happy". In fact, I almost wish I would've stop...

The Frog Saves Itself In The End..."Before" puts an end into the adventures and misadventures of the Hessa couple, whom the readers of the "After" series, know as Tessa and Hardin.The story concentrates on Hardin. We are gonna be there since his bad days, when there was no Tessa around to cheer him up!We are gonna meet 2 Hardins -- a Hard-In Hardin and a Soft-In Hardin.The first is a serial hearts breaker that "loves" and leaves girls as a hobby. Brought up in a toxical environmente that include...

So much more than just a retelling! Not only do you get to look inside Hardin's head in some of the most crucial scenes in AFTER, you get to really see his moments of panic, fear and regret at what he'd done. You get a glimpse at his BEFORE and his AFTER ... get to know a little bit more about some of the characters that played big parts in what went down, understand them a bit more. In the case of some of these characters reading a more about them changed my opinion on them even if just slightl...

did not make me forgive the characters

I’m blessed with a family that I couldn’t have dreamed of, and I’m raising kids who will be better than I ever was. Tessa’s head falls to the side, and I brush her hair away from her sleeping face. She’s been my calm, my fire, my breath, my pain, and no matter what we’ve gone through, every second was worth getting to the life we have now. I dragged Tess and myself through hell and back, but here we are—After everything, we made it to our own version of heaven. ♥♥♥

PERFECT!!!This was the perfect little cherry on top of this amazing series!Of course I was a bit confused at first with all those girls names at the beginning - that's due to my #Booksalzheimers ☺ ...but I got it after a few pages! I loved how everybody was given a few pages to tell their story - both at the beginning and at the end. And I love that we'll get to hear Landon's story soon.I'm still a bit sad about all that time #Hessa had to spend apart... it all had to happen for them to find t

Feelings of angst, anxiety, panic, trepidation, anticipation, regret and love, all flood back in the pages of Before—a companion novel to the After series told in Hardin Scott's POV. If you're a fan of the series, you'll love delving into Hardin's head, gaining insight into why he did the things he did, how they made him feel, and how he processed the consequences of those actions. We get to know Hardin a little better, experiencing first hand the childhood and events that led to his ornery pers...

You learn more about the characters in After in this book and also Hardin's thoughts as he meets Tessa are described in this book. But of course the future can't be missing.

I really did want to love this book. I had so many expectations jumping into it but unfortunately, was disappointed. The After series was so good in my opinion, but I think Anna should have just left it alone after book 4. Sometimes it's best not to drag a story.First of all, you cannot read this book as a stand alone because you wouldn't understand anything. Before gives you a little more insight on the other characters in the After series, and had Anna developed that alone, further, it probabl...

"When she opened herself to him, he climbed right in, making a home inside of her." I could not resist reading this final book in the series and I am so glad I did! We learn more about Hardin's time in England, before he moved to the US. There are POV's from a few of the other characters, which I guess was to explain more about how they became who they are now.I especially loved and was saddened by all the inner turmoil that went on inside Hardin's head. I loved when he came to the realisatio

What a wonderful addition to the "After"-series, I loved that we got an insight on both Hardins side of the first book and the other characters' of the series. I loved the additional end to the end of Hessa, at the end of this book. The thing that irritated me a lot were the references to Hardins previous lovers, especially Natalie. If Hardin would've toned it down a little more about Natalie, it would not have seemed as if he was replacing Natalie with Tessa, but since the story progressed so m...