Anna Todd's After, a contemporary young adult romance based on Harry Styles fanfiction, gives me mixed emotions. Tessa has been picture perfect her whole life, but when she goes to college and meets British bad boy Hardin, she starts to change her ways. First off, Tessa and Hardin's relationship is entirely toxic; during most of their interactions, they're drunk, lying, fighting, or using each other as a distraction. Second, if their relationship's toxicity wasn't enough, Tessa and Hardin's dialogue is super awkward about 75% of the time. Lastly, this book is full of atrocious writing; it reads like it was published straight from Wattpad and bypassed the editing stage. Because of all of those reasons, I am very embarrassed that I loved this book. I can't explain why, but for some reason, I was intrigued throughout the whole novel; I couldn't put it down. For this ridiculous reason, I am going to have to give this book 4 stars.