Review: Don't think I'd read the "After"
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 12, 2014
In short, this is 150 pages of a silly little girl begging a silly little boy to like her. The writing itself was decent, but it didn't really do much for me. I found myself getting annoyed with Jess for being so pitiful. And I couldn't figure out how she would be ok with (spoiler alter) teasing and gaping at a guy she had only met for 2 minutes while he was standing in front of her naked and saying some of the things she said to him, but then getting shy when she thought about taking off her clothes to try and seduce him. Some of this story was just really weak, as were the characters. I read the preview of book 2 at the back and it switches from first person POV to third and when Jess and Jack meet again 10 years later their relationship slips back into the way it was 10 years ago, Jess teasing him, and him saying no. He turned her down for four weeks when she was 18 and now ten years later he's still turning her down. It's time to move on honey! After all of her pleading and anger at him for not giving in in the first book, I don't think I can do another 160 pages of her saying "please" and him saying "no thank you".