With a father who abandoned them and a mother who dropped out of the same school, Tessa is hellbent on making the best out of her life. ‘After’ begins with an eager Tessa who is getting ready for college.

Spoiler alert: important details of the novel are revealed below. Though he makes it all hard for her to decide what he truly felt about her, Tessa still pulls closer to him until the inevitable that Tessa always had a hint about but chose to ignore happens. Due to her attraction to Hardin, Tessa starts making terrible decisions and constantly experiences rudeness, coldness, and affection from Hardin. Though she avoids both Steph, Tessa finds herself getting attracted to Hardin. Tessa’s mother finds out about her activities through Noah and warns Tessa of her association, and makes her promise to stay away from Steph and bad influence. Soon after arriving at the party, they play a game of truth or dare, and as it gets to Tessa’s turn, she has to kiss Hardin, something she blatantly disagrees with doing. The next day, Tessa meets Hardin on Steph’s bed and instantly dislikes him due to his rude, adamant, and cold nature towards her.Ī week passes, and Tessa gets invited to a party by Steph though she reluctantly agrees to attend. Carol sticks with warning her daughter of the dangers of college. On getting to Tessa’s dorm, Carol is shocked to see her daughter’s roommate, Steph Jones.ĭue to her alternative lifestyle, appearance, and behavior, Carol demands her daughter change rooms, but Tessa remains adamant. Tessa arrives in college with her high school boyfriend Noah and her mom Carol.

Tessa is a girl with a goal and a focused mind already set on her career path. The book ‘ After’ begins with Tessa Young, a freshman at Washington Central University.

‘After’ was made into a movie in 2019, and though the movie has similarities with the book, disparities between both exist notably in their endings. As time passes, Tessa falls intensely for Hardin, leaving her with a trail of bad choices and an ending that was always inevitable. ‘After’ by Anna Todd is a young adult romance novel that tells the story of the main character Tessa, a young eighteen-year-old fresh college student who meets Hardin, a boy with a rude, cold, and annoying attitude.

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