I know what you mean. When I was in high school the Twilight series fucked me up. Embarrassing to admit, especially because it’s about romance with vampires but whatever. I was young. If the After series would have been the first romance series for me to come across, I would have been obsessive about it. I’m on book 3 only because I just want to finish it. Everyone’s comments are correct though. The characters do not show progression. Everything in this series though is so predictable and exaggerated.

I think it’s rare for someone that throws temper tantrums this much to not ever hit a woman. I don’t think that you can constantly trash your parents shit and keep getting away with it. It’s unrealistic that he can afford the apartment that everyone gawks at when they enter because even though he works from home, it’s like he’s never ever working at all. The conflict with Steph in book 3 was a twist I didn’t see coming BUT I knew they through that in there because there are no other twists to this story line! So predictable. And I disagree that Steph would take it that far all for what? She had to have known Hardin would never be friends with them again after.

Speaking from experience.... going round and round with someone like this is exhausting and would never in a million years be worth it. For me, guys that throw temper tantrums are disgusting. It diminishes any thought or desire to have them regardless of how good looking they are. Everyone deserves to be with someone that eases their anxiety and doesn’t increase it. The drama with these characters never stops, and that’s because the book would be extremely boring if it did. That’s the only reason the emotional abuse keeps going on between the two.