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- verity: 3:20
- the viscount who loved me: 7:47
- the selection: 9:49
- a little life/slammed: 12:34
- normal people: 16:11
- from blood and ash: 19:10
- it ends with us: 21:57
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whenever i see someone recommending a hoover book or has a hoover book in their "books i'd sell my soul to read again", i do not and will not ever trust their recommendation. and that's set in stone. no one will ever change my mind
same !
lui sai why?
lol i've never read her books, can you explain?
Same even tho I did like verity a little bit .
@@user-hx1ob7sl8o Her biggest issue is that she glorifies toxic behavior/relationships in her books. There are a lot of TH-cam videos of people discussing it if you want to know more
when hannah posts my tbr dresses up in a robe and holds a goblet to welcome all the new books like a cult leader and i am here for it
LOLLLL
😂this comment is hilarious and of course true🎉
@A Clockwork Reader have you read vampire chronicles Ann Rice if you have is there video and can you drop link to that video?
slammed to my dark Vanessa and verity to rebecca is the biggest book glow up
So sad that I accidentally watched the movie adaptation of Rebecca without knowing it's based on this book. I cant enjoy it like reading it the first time anymore.
As a child of an abusive father, It ends with us send me into a biiiiggg anger fit. It's really bad, like *really* *bad*
On the other hand Into the dream house helped me deal with an abusive lesbian relationship I was in. It made me feel really validated when all the people arround me disminished my experience because it was between two women. It also is a literature masterpiece. Love Carmen Maria Machado so much. The way she can make the experience of beeing female into a subtle horror story is superb
hii, could i ask why it ends with us angered you if your comfortable with it? honestly i absolutely hated the execution of the book but im glad lots of ppl got to know how domestic abuse is
As a child of abusive parents too , for me the book was not that bad. I generally avoid books which has abuse element in it so the "breaking the cycle of abuse" was an enlightening element for me. I haven't read the author's other books so I wouldn't understand what the hate is about but it ends with us was one of the starting books for me . I slowly started reading other books with healing theme after that. But I guess it's different for everyone. Your feelings are valid but it's not really a bad bad book tbh . Sure the writing is very wattpady but anyways
@@cheesetoastie3512 well, for starters the most anger inducing is the "the fact that he was abusive as a partner doesn't mean he is a bad father" bs of the end. That was the worst for me. And the "we can co-parent in a healthy way and I have cero concerns of leaving a baby with an abusive man" (I know she realised a new book expanding the ending last year, but it was a stand alone book for a lot of years and it endend badly). Also the fact that she is friend with his sister after ?!?! When she excused him!?!
I honestly don't remember everything because I read it +7 years ago, but my mom left my dad because of the abuse, and because the justice sistem sucks, they had shared custody of me, and let's just say it wasn't nice.
Also in most cases after the divorce the violence escalates a lot, and just seamed unrealistic to me the way it ended.
edit: I may be misremembering something, tbh I thought about re reading it but chosed not to because why bother
@@directionerCaratMumu I'm glad it worked for you and that it opened the door of more books that helped you heal
@@cheesetoastie3512 it romanticises abuse and so do all her books it doesn’t bring light to the topic it just makes it seem unimportant
As a manga reader I am always happy when booktubers discover manga series and recommend them. Most people think manga is an inferior form of literature and I am glad when people who enjoy reading fall in love with manga.
EXACTLY when in reality manga is the superior form of literature. I read like 5 books last year and hated every one of them so I switched to manga instead. Best decision I've ever made.
Berserk is god level... ❤❤
@@ishaankapil4982 Yes it is. It's the greatest manga to ever exist.
@@canwegetmuchhigher729 woah woah let’s not get ahead of ourselves
@@canwegetmuchhigher729 the issue with manga is there's a lot that is left unsaid for me the dialogue is limited and mostly i read for the art . I am reading monster right now and it's amazing.
I read an interview with Yanigahara and she said she did 0 research into disability. I'm disabled, was born disabled and acquired a second disability, and the persistent narrative that we just don't have lives worth living makes me so angry. If she'd bothered to do some research she could've written something that redressed the balance a little bit, but it's like Me Before You but worse. We have lives outside our disabilities and we are SO far behind in terms of disability rights that the representation matters. Thanks for calling it out.
I hope this doesn't come off as dismissing your experience. I'm not disabled but I am traumatized, so I interpreted the book very differently. In my reading, the hopelessness didn't come from disability. It came from shame. Jude had been abused all his life and for that reason he was apologizing for his existence, for everything about him. He didn''t think he deserved to exist and take space, so he would have felt hopeless no matter what. The problem was his mindset, not his disability. Though now that I think about it, perhaps this point could have been made more clearly without making him disabled... But in my reading it was all about the massive trauma he went through during his formative years, that made him think and feel in ways one wouldn't without the trauma.
@@ally19288 Ok so I've been wondering how to reply to this and it basically boils down to why make Jude disabled if his extreme negative feelings come from shame as you've rightly said. If he doesn't need to be that's fine, the issue is that she has added yet another better dead than disabled trope and disability equals trauma trope which is super harmful for our community. We really need positive rep and happy endings to offset the deaths and the villains etc. Across my PhD work on this I've read some books that may help illustrate this like the Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability, Disability Visibility by Alice Wong, Disability: The Basics by Tom Shakespeare, and a good short story collection is Call Me Ahab by Anne Finger ♥️
I haven't read A Little Life but it's definitely true people with disabilities and chronic illnesses are hardly ever protrayed in media without them having a sad ending (natural death or suicide)
It's like it's catering to a ableist audience for them to romanticise the trauma.
@@Candlekeepdeep I thought I already replied to you, but it doesn't look like my comment is here. Unless it got erased for some reason? Anyway, just wanted to say that I think I was wrong and didn't think things through before I commented. Thank you for replying.
@@Candlekeepdeep I mean, I still think the shame came from his trauma, but you are right in pointing out how it's still problematic and that we don't need another story about disability in this light.
all i saw was the title and i KNEW we'd be getting a rebecca recommendation based on verity lol
yup, I remember reading the summary for Verity a while back and was like....um anyone else getting dejavu here? I mean getting inspiration is one thing but it sounded so close to Rebecca but with worse prose and more fucking (and I like sex scenes in books and film, but if they aren't good it's worse than having none.), Anyway more people need to discover Daphne du Maurier.
I feel like Sally Rooney is like cilantro - some people love it, others think it tastes like soap. I'm kind of into her writing, she's like a mirror of my worst thoughts and dumb stuff I did when i was younger. Still, I understand why some people don't like her books.
Its just horrible.. I hated both characters, I hate her writing style (no " .. ") and everytime i got into the story we skipped like 3 months.. Its literally the worst book I've ever read. I hated Marianne's persona. I could just see her standing somewhere with her sigaret being annoying. She sex scenes were just the worst, super dumb, awkward and dry. I actually burned this book when i got into an argument with my family and it felt so good. 😅
@@valentiapauwels I feel this 😂 Normal People is not a book about normal people. It’s a book about socially awkward introverts that drift around life like a lost buoy, without any ambitions or dreams whatsoever. I wanted to scream at the characters to finally get their sorry ars*s up and take some action. Horrible.
literally genius ideaaaa!!!! thanks a lot for suffering through those books for us, it really is a public service
Jesse On TH-cam made a similar video 'ALTERNATIVES to 10 Super Popular But RACIST Books' and i LOVED IT!! i love seeing booktubers recommend alternatives to problematic/bad popular books
I'm trans and I read A Lady for a Duke from your recommendation and hoooooooooooooh my god so many emotions. The only negative thing that I felt when reading this book was the "why can't this be me" feeling lmao. I'm just out here tryna find a Gracewood
Gracewood is too good for us all 🥹🫶🏼
Unrelated but you’re one of the prettiest people I’ve ever seen.
@@asmijain2695 If this is about me then wow thank you! Im actually healing from surgery right now, which isn't a very glamorous process, so thank you for making my day :)
I honestly love that you don't just recommend books but you recommend manga too! your channel is so unique and special and I have loved so many other books you have recommended in your past videos, so im super excited to add all these to my tbr and hopefully love them as well :)
I'm pretty new to manga but off of your rec I started Yona of the Dawn and ended up reading thirty volumes in a week. Thank you for this gift, my life will never be the same, it is everything, from blood and ash WISHESSSSSS
I’m happy you enjoyed it so much lol
A Lady for a Duke is so underrated, it became one of my favorite romances ever!
So glad to see it get more love
i love it how you come up with interesting and actually helpful content ideas❤ and unlike some booktubers filming an obscene number of hauls and reading plans but few informed reviews and recommendations, you're more about quality over quantity and most often tell us about books you've actually read and know well about! great job Hannah^^
My Dark Vanessa was so haunting, when you pulled it out I got shivers. Difficult to read for sure, but written so well 😳
I would love to see a video on your favourite historical fiction or the ones you're really looking forward to read.
We absolutely need more videos like these! Some authors truly do have a good vision for a plot which makes you intrigued and though you get what their trying to do with it, the way they sometimes deliver it can be so underwhelming or disappointing..so to find a book which is a better version of that book as to fulfill your desire to read that plot can be reallyy helpful! This video is genius
Oh I loved this idea! And Hannah really did it: she made a book recommendation based on CoHo 😂.
That edition of Rebecca is GORGEOUS!!! Where did you get it?
The queen feeding us so well with so much content lately. Ty ty ty, could listen to you talk for hours
This video was the perfect length, it ended right when I finished my meal. So satisfying. Thank you for the recommendations! Can’t wait to continue yona of the Dawn
I adore Yona of the Dawn, wish more people picked it up! Great idea for the video, loved all of the recommendations. Thank you Hannah❤
This is such an amazing video idea. The selection series gave me nothing I expected to get or feel. Now I can read your recommendation and maybe I'll FINALLY get what I was expecting
You videos are always so calm, i love it❤
I do not know why Ive never seen anyone mention this. But the way Verity talks about her autistic child, and what else happens with said child needed a trigger warning. I literally have not been able to stomach anything Colleen Hoover since I read that and I truly felt like there was no other. Purpose for that detail other than to be horrific.
same! I have commented on many a video about how much I hated this! I was so pissed reading it. It made me never want to read her again either. I read Layla, another and for some reason much less popular book of hers, which I liked, but I read it before Verity, and now I do not want to read a thing she writes
That Stationery Fairy Books for adults should not have a trigger warning. Nor is there anything wrong with Colleen Hoover. If you think her books are supposed to be instruction manuals on how to have a relation ship (instead of fucked-up people finding love despite how awful they can be) then you probably aren't old enough to be reading them.
@Taylor Swift ate my hamster How did you get any of that from what I said? I dont give a shit about the romance, because her books arenr about romance they're fetishized abuse at best. I was specifically talking about one detail that I found lazy and unnecessary.
@@M.H.I.A.F.T.no, if a book deals with a sensitive subject matter it should have a trigger warning, that's just how trigger warnings work.
I'd say to look it up before writing it, but you have the critical thinking skills of a 4 year old if you honestly think that coho writes about "complex characters" that or your taste in books is bad
@@sapphoscorner No, YOU have the critical thinking skills of a four-year-old if you need a trigger warning. I never claimed Hoover was a good writer who really knows how to flesh out a character. My point is a writer doesn't need to be even that good to write a character whose morality isn't black or white. Stick to reading Harry Potter if you need a simple good and evil dichotomy to enjoy a book 🙄
this was one of my favorite videos of you, please do a part 2 because I was waiting for Spanish love deception to show up at some point 👀
obsessed with how hard hannah has been pushing yona of the dawn cause same!!!
i do be running every time a new clockwork video comes out ✨✨ you’re the reason for probably at LEAST half the books i’ve read in the past year lmao.
I’m loving the manga recs!!! would love to see more :)
I like these types of videos, they are genuinely so helpful 😊. Also I now have 2 new animes to watch!
I love your videos!! you made me fall in love with reading again
She is the ONLY booktuber I have seen give recs about 'Snow White with Red Hair' and 'Yona of the Dawn' even though I haven't really read the other books like Selection, or Blood and Ash coz of bad reviews and I am glad for it. I love those books as I am really into manhwas, mangas, and Light Novels. I love Novels in general but I like reading books from different cultures. It feels like experiencing and knowing things that you have never heard or known of. While these books are pure imagination, they do have a great deal of creativity.
If you like Yona of the dawn, read the Apothecary Diaries! I think there's a lot of overlap in the appeal
@@zkkitty2436 I really wanted to read that book but didn't meet anyone who could tell me that a book is good and I don't like picking books that will end up disappointing me. Thank you so much for the recommendation.
I found the anime of snow quite with the red hair a couple years ago, I’m not usually into anime, but I loved this so much! So cool to see it here, I didn’t know it was a manga, I’m gonna have to go get it now
I completely agree with every thoughtful deduction you have described and subsequent recommendation. So glad you are putting out content. Instant subscribe!!
I actually took your advice of reading Rebecca at the time you made the Colleen Hoover video, and it is now one of my favorite books that I've ever read. My Dark Vanessa is also on my TBR list now, but I haven't gotten to that one yet. Thank you for this!
After i saw your other entry about reading the books you hate or you don't like, I was convinced that we have the same taste with books based on you reviews so i will trust you with all these recommendations plus we both love anime manga 🤧 and shirayuki. Ive read it before i watched the anime so i totally agree
This was an interesting video concept! Loved it
My day is made🥺💜💜💜thanks Hannah I enjoyed your videos are my sunshine 🥺💜💜💜
Hannah!!!! Would you mind doing a dark academia tier list or updated dark academia rec list 🥺🥺 I’m in need of book recs and love the genre
I'm so glad you enjoyed Akagami no Shirayuki-hime! That series has my heart, I loved the anime so much
this was such an interesting video, i loved every part of it and will definitely be checking out your recommendations, tysm!
In the Dream House, Rebecca and My Dark Vanessa are in my TBR, I think I'll read the last manga you mentioned.
I went through a long spell where i wasnt able to focus well enough to read. Verity was a book that jumped out at me on tiktok and when i read it the first time, i devoured it in less than a day. It was a very easy read for me and i enjoyed the mystery. I reread it recently and found that i had to put it down more than a few times. I feel like i read it so fast the first time because of the thriller elements and its simplistic writing style, that i really didnt let it all sink in. It broke my heart because it reignited my urge to read, and its just so hard to get through after the first read. I appreciate you making this video for people like me who love to read but just havent had the brain space for a while. Added Rebecca to my TBR immediately.
I love your recommendations. Something about it is different than other recommendations, thank you!
my heart and soul are indebted to you for recommending Yona of the Dawn (even though my academics are currently the state of the hiryuu castle at the end of the last volume :))) the world building, the character development? Oh my. I absolutely love the genre of fantasy romance and this just took the cake. Also, it took me a while to pick it up because I had commitment issues with it because of the length and I was concerned that you compared it to that horrid From Blood and Ash (I couldn’t get through even half of it) but I was coming across a lot of reels of Yona and I had your voice in the back of my head and the rest is history ❤
I watched this video yesterday and got A Lady For a Duke form the library. I’m like 1/3 through and it’s great. Thanks for the rec!
I’m glad you posted this video becuase I was gonna ask for it. I started reading “The Neighbor favor” and I feel like it’s the better version of “Ugly love”
I retract that statement I was in the beginning of “The neighbor favor” when I made this statement.
Amazing video! Just updated my tbr list 🎉
I truly appreciate your reviews and perspective as well as ability to articulate the issues with a lot of the “bad” books. I had a really negative reaction to reading The Southern Bookclub guide to slaying Vampires and would love to see if you had the same issues I did with it
literally gasped when i saw that you just uploaded!
All the manga recommendations make me so happy they're so underrated
I read In the dream house 2 weeks ago and it was simply amazing. It is a book that I honestly think still needs more attention. I've heard a lot of great things about my dark Vanessa but I'm hesitant to read something so difficult. Then again, I did read Lolita which was amazing so...
I can vouch for Yona of the Dawn. It consumed my heart and soul when I first discovered it, and now I'm sadly waiting for the next volume to come out now that I'm caught up
love spending my weekends watching hannah,
No, but I love it how she’s straight up recommending manga. Queen you dropped this 👑
Loved this video! Would love to see more such videos, especially better options for some trashy booktok reads!
i love this concept so much
I have watched Yona of the Dawn the anime series and to this day it is one of my absolute favorite series… I just wish they wouldn’t have canceled it…
Even if I could guess most of your recommendations (because I watch all of your videos, sometimes several times, before and after I read the books you talk about) I still think this video was so interesting ! I really love this recommandation concept !
(Also, I just finished Before the coffee gets cold, thank you so much I would've never picked that one up by myself, and I loved it !)
Hannah!!! Have you read Witch Hat Atelier? I NEED you to and I need your thoughts. Its incredible 😭
Also, another recommendation regarding the book "Verity". If you like the idea of being haunted by a ghost writer, a VERY underrated book is "Based on a True Story" by Delphine de Vigan. One of the best books I've read!
yooo i loved this video !! lmk if u hv more book recs like this hahahahhaha
I love Akatsuki no Yona. The plot is wonderful, the characters are amazing ( absolutely love Soo- Won, the romance is so fluffy and cute. Iam so glad to see that one of my favourite booktuber has read and loved this manga series. Thank you Hannah for reading and loving the manga series
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omg yona of the dawn is WONDERFUL ❤❤❤ so glad it was mentioned
I love this idea so much. I also love the fact you begin it with Rebecca as a recommendation.
Que genial idea!!
Definitivamente leeré tus recomendaciones
You're holding up the next volume of Yona of the Dawn that I need to read!💛
Omg I LOVE Yona of the Dawn!! Such an underrated series!!
Thank you for this video, I’ve dnf’d a few of the books you did not like so I’m thankful you have suggestions for ones I may like instead. I could not get through Verity but loved Rebecca.
i saw a tiktok about verity at the veerrryyy beginning of tiktok's obsession with colleen hoover and the video framed it in such a way that made me immediately buy the book. this is the one time having an endless physical tbr & being a mood reader has saved me, because that book sat on my shelf for over two years before i found out how terrible coho and her books are and banished it from my home 😌
FINALLY!! 1000% agree with your opinion on A Little Life. This book has been so hyped up and I don't understand HOW and WHY.
SUCH A GREAT IDEA!!!!!! love this so much
U look so cute in glasses😍
Such a good idea to recommend books😂❤
I read Yona of the dawn based on your recommendation and let me tell you... It was so so so good! At first i was sceptical, because y'know, she was in love with her cousin. However, what came next was unimaginable.
I am impressed the most with Yona and her character growth. She goes from coddled annoying princess to epic brave and strong hero, and not via montage or something, it's quite realistic and engaging. Some other great stuff is that sweet slow burn, the banther of the found family and the epicness(?? is that a word) of the story. When I say that this story is on par with other famous fantasy worlds I mean it.
I’ve never read Hoover ( because you did for me!) but Rebecca is on my TBR, so glad it’s in the good pile! 😅
Loved the recommendations, I've always had a hard time with Colleen Hoovers writing so this helped fill that disturbed gap she stood in my mind. 😅
Rebecca is a masterpiece, hands down. I absolutely love that your recommendations get more people to know books like this one. I don't get the trashing of Verity tho. It's a pretty interesting and engaging read, definitely a page-turner and a memorable experience. I still recommend it, specially to developing readers.
If you love Yona and Snow White With The Red Hair, I feel like you’d love Noragami - my absolute fave manga series (if you haven’t read it already). It has an anime too which is super funny and beautiful, and actually quite different from the manga in parts but I love them both!!
I started Yona this month and now I have 9 volumes from the library sitting on my desk just. staring at me. waiting.
Also: I'm surprised you didn't add ACOTAR and Howl's Moving Castle in this!
I LOVE the idea of this video!!
Omg i love totally love Shirayuki and Yona of the Dawn
thank you so much hannah i love this!
i don't know much about from blood & ash, like plotwise but your description of it along with your recommendation made me think of the remnant chronicles (the kiss of deception), maybe not the romance which i suppose is the biggest part of it but the princess getting to know her kingdom outside of the castle's wall part did make me think of that book, and there's still romance just not with her bodyguard. sure, some people still don't like it, mainly because the first book is really slow paced but I love the trilogy as whole
I guessed all of the books you were recommending except for in the dream house 😭 i love ur videos if you cant tell
nailing it with the recommendation of my dark vanessa there! (also read a lady for a duke at your recommendation and it was awesome! I also just read the perfect crimes of marian hayes and it was great and a lot of fun.)
i know it's off topic but can you share your lip product? i looove the way it looks you look gorgeous (as always) ❤
thank you for these recommendations!!
I’m sending you love and I hope you are taking care yourself and doing well ❤❤❤
The SUPREMACY I fell with Rebecca being my favourite book😂❤️ thanks for the video
Thank you so much for your wonderful book recommendations.
I am here for the good book tea ❤
i think it’s cool that you recommend mangas as well but i have never really gotten into reading mangas, i feel like the experience is very different from that of a novel so i kinda wish you had manga & novel recs for some of these, but i understand lol
Question, for yona of the dawn, I absolutely loved the anime! I was so sad when it didn't countine, so I've started the manga, but I wanna start reading where the anime ends. What volume do I read to countine that story?
My dark Vanessa actually destroyed me and I couldn't even finish it! It was terrifying to me in so many levels... Wouldn't recommend to those who are sensitive like me.
Wow! Yona of the Dawn and Snow white with the red hair are my favorite anime! They aren't hyped up enough
Hey, I loved the first mortal instruments, I think all of us did at least once, but I can’t find anything that has that same city fantasy vibe. Urban fantasy as a genre I can find, but I don’t know, I hoped maybe you knew a few with the same feeling 😅
ikr, i want to read something like the tmi but I can't find anything
Would you be willing to do an updated bookshelf tour? 👀🥰
I always recommend ‘Home Before Dark’ by Riley Sager to people who mention ‘Verity’ by Colleen Hoover. It’s still ultimately a “cheap thriller” book but I just thought it was so much better. It has the same book within a book element and the mystery of wondering which parts are true and a similar spooky house vibe and a romance side plot. I’ve always wanted to read Rebecca so this video is definitely encouraging me to.
I'm literally about to read "Home Before Dark". I'll take your offer on that.
Update (3 days later): I read it! And you're totally right! It was very fun to read! Spooky enough, but nothing too scary! I loved the format! Very entertaining! I gave it 4.25/5 stars.