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
@@寿司食べたいな 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
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 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.
@@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.
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
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 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.
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.
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
@@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 :)
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 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 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^^
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
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 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 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
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
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!
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!
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.
@@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 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 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 😌
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.
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
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 would love a "you should read this instead" for The Selection, but the book draws from the same plot line as The Bachelor but actually has a well-developed storyline. I enjoyed these books when I was young and now I need the grown-up good version. ❤
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 read a Lady for A Duke and heard about it here first. I was skeptical than any writer could set such a story in history in any believable way. This book ended up being one of my top 3 reads of 2023
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.
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...
As someone who loved Rebecca, I can't recommend it enough. The 2020 adaptation was terrible because it changed so many core elements of the characters. If you want a better adaptation to film, watch Hitchcock's 1940 version.
I'm convinced that Colleen Hoover read Rebecca (or a sparknotes version of it) and didn't understand that the protagonist and her husband are awful people; like you're not supposed to romanticize the relationship between a murderer and his enabler Colleen...
To all the theatre kids who just thought "oh I might give Rebecca a try": please, please, PLEASE listen to the musical. It is in german but it is soooo good. Please give it a try and enjoy the the rabbit hole of German and Austrian musicals. You're welcome.
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 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 💝💞💕
I think a little life is a different experience for everyone depending on the trauma that you have and how you connect with it. TW death - I have a dead disabled sibling so for me Willam's plot line was extremely important to me and the first time I had ever seen something like this in a book - and really media at all. So I think certain aspects of it are damaging to people but also fulfilling to some. Everyone interacts with books differently.
Snow White the Red Hair is amazing however it is nothing like The Selection even vibes wise. The Selection is closer to a Cinderella retelling. While Snow White With the Red Hair is much more focused on found family, developing yourself and your own skills and friend relationships. It is an extremely slow burn, with the two main characters spending most of their time apart focusing on their own goals.
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.
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
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.
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 😅
Bridgerton alternatives - Georgette Heyer! She's an early 20th C writer who wrote Regency romances. They're v enjoyable, light, *well written* fiction and i think she deserves a revival :) Id start with Friday's Child, I loved that one!
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!
Just a little quick reminder to anyone who’s watching this video and liked or loved of the books Hannah mentions please note that is ok 😊 maybe you’ll love the ones recommended as well so more books to love , opinions are opinions and have no evidence or fact so please bare in mind that you’re not less of or more of if you like or don’t like something ❤
I have read all the manga recommendations and the book counterparts and they were spot on! If you haven’t gotten into manga yet, this is a good place to start! 😂
I finished My dark Vanessa last night and it was a 3 star for me, the writing and the story are well done but Vanessa as a person I could not like through out, I had a lot of sympathy for her because of the manipulation and trauma built through the years but as she grew into an adult I found it hard to feel the same way, she lacked so much that made me feel angry and frustrated which at the same time I was thinking of how someone living through that would end up? i had to keep putting myself in her shoes because she was so hard to like as a character. I wanted to DNF it half way but I pulled through and in the end I was left feeling like I could have been fine never reading it.
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 love season 2 of Bridgerton too so I will definitely check out A Lady for a Duke. Rebecca is currently on my shelf but I haven’t gotten around to reading it yet, but I definitely will!
lowkey happy that I did read most of the books you recommended instead of the one you hated (except for normal people, I did read that and I also very much disliked it but that was completely because of the writing style, considering that I loved the show)
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
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
I'm so glad there is someone else that loved season 2 of Bridgerton and was completely let down by the book! I'm a general believer that the book is better than the TV/movie adaptation so when I saw a bunch of ppl on tik tok hyping up the slow burn of the book being better than the show, I had to read it. Its awful. The slow burn was not slow at all and Anthony was awful in the book compared to Johnathan Bailey's portrayal. Also as a desi woman, it was so refreshing to not see the "pretty for a brown person" trope in the TV version.
There was a film called Just Like Heaven where a woman got into a coma, her apartment is sublet, and a man meets her amnesiac ethereal form. The comparisons between that and Verity made me laugh so much!
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 !)
I still can't believe that some people have the AUDACITY to praise A Little Life, to be honest so it was nice to see you recommend a book that DOESN'T hurt for the sake of hurting or to be edgy like that one.
That is because Rebecca and the movie Crimson Peak are both considered Gothic stories. The theme you are picking up on is pretty prominent in the genre. Wuthering Heights and Mexican Gothic also have this "I am in this old house with a dude and something ain't right here" vibe. Oh and Jane Eyre as well. And We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
It's always interesting to me how many booktubers whom I normally share opinions with (if not to the letter, pretty close enough) hate Blood and Ash. I don't think it was high literature but it's one of the better novels in this genre of books (what would I even call this genre lol) out there. But then again, I don't read a lot of them because to be honest they all feel like retreads of each other. Like you've read one you've read them all essentially. Which if you love that kind of setup is fair enough but in my case I was fine to enjoy it as a duology. I tried reading the third and just kind of lost interest midway. It didn't get worse I just felt like I got enough. I think it's because it honestly works better as a romance novel than a fantasy. Cause it's in line with a lot of my favorite romance novels from back in the day and not much like any of the truly great fantasy or sci fi lit out there be it now or in the past. Just felt I had to say my piece on this since I haven't before. and I'm sure plenty of people will disagree with me on it being even good as a romance novel but I only read certain Kinds of romance so that's also a factor. The really fluffy ones tend to bore me. I want my real life romance to be joyful/gentle and my fictional ones to be messy/complicated as fuck. and set as far away from our reality as possible. needess to say I never read a colleen hoover book and never intended to cause they are meant to represent "real life". glad to see I ain't missing much there.
I loved The Selection when I was in middle school but now that I'm a bit older...it's just kinda meh. Like I don't hate it. But it's defiantly not as good as I remembered
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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 .
@@寿司食べたいな 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
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😂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 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.
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
@@Votefor17 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
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 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.
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
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 :)
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 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
My Dark Vanessa was so haunting, when you pulled it out I got shivers. Difficult to read for sure, but written so well 😳
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^^
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 😂.
The queen feeding us so well with so much content lately. Ty ty ty, could listen to you talk for hours
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 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 🙄
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 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
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
obsessed with how hard hannah has been pushing yona of the dawn cause same!!!
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!
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!
That edition of Rebecca is GORGEOUS!!! Where did you get it?
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.
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 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'm so glad you enjoyed Akagami no Shirayuki-hime! That series has my heart, I loved the anime so much
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 😌
No, but I love it how she’s straight up recommending manga. Queen you dropped this 👑
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 👀
All the manga recommendations make me so happy they're so underrated
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.
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
I’m loving the manga recs!!! would love to see more :)
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 like these types of videos, they are genuinely so helpful 😊. Also I now have 2 new animes to watch!
I would love a "you should read this instead" for The Selection, but the book draws from the same plot line as The Bachelor but actually has a well-developed storyline. I enjoyed these books when I was young and now I need the grown-up good version. ❤
In the Dream House, Rebecca and My Dark Vanessa are in my TBR, I think I'll read the last manga you mentioned.
You videos are always so calm, i love it❤
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 read a Lady for A Duke and heard about it here first. I was skeptical than any writer could set such a story in history in any believable way. This book ended up being one of my top 3 reads of 2023
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.
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…
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...
As someone who loved Rebecca, I can't recommend it enough. The 2020 adaptation was terrible because it changed so many core elements of the characters. If you want a better adaptation to film, watch Hitchcock's 1940 version.
I'm convinced that Colleen Hoover read Rebecca (or a sparknotes version of it) and didn't understand that the protagonist and her husband are awful people; like you're not supposed to romanticize the relationship between a murderer and his enabler Colleen...
To all the theatre kids who just thought "oh I might give Rebecca a try": please, please, PLEASE listen to the musical. It is in german but it is soooo good. Please give it a try and enjoy the the rabbit hole of German and Austrian musicals. You're welcome.
This was an interesting video concept! Loved it
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 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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I think a little life is a different experience for everyone depending on the trauma that you have and how you connect with it. TW death - I have a dead disabled sibling so for me Willam's plot line was extremely important to me and the first time I had ever seen something like this in a book - and really media at all. So I think certain aspects of it are damaging to people but also fulfilling to some. Everyone interacts with books differently.
Snow White the Red Hair is amazing however it is nothing like The Selection even vibes wise. The Selection is closer to a Cinderella retelling. While Snow White With the Red Hair is much more focused on found family, developing yourself and your own skills and friend relationships. It is an extremely slow burn, with the two main characters spending most of their time apart focusing on their own goals.
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.
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
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 love your videos!! you made me fall in love with reading again
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.
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
literally gasped when i saw that you just uploaded!
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!
Bridgerton alternatives - Georgette Heyer! She's an early 20th C writer who wrote Regency romances. They're v enjoyable, light, *well written* fiction and i think she deserves a revival :) Id start with Friday's Child, I loved that one!
Friday's Child is a banger
I love the humor in her writing paired with ships you can get very invested in
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.
this was such an interesting video, i loved every part of it and will definitely be checking out your recommendations, tysm!
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. 😅
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!
Just a little quick reminder to anyone who’s watching this video and liked or loved of the books Hannah mentions please note that is ok 😊 maybe you’ll love the ones recommended as well so more books to love , opinions are opinions and have no evidence or fact so please bare in mind that you’re not less of or more of if you like or don’t like something ❤
snow white with the red hair is SO underrated, its SO good
Wow! Yona of the Dawn and Snow white with the red hair are my favorite anime! They aren't hyped up enough
I have read all the manga recommendations and the book counterparts and they were spot on! If you haven’t gotten into manga yet, this is a good place to start! 😂
I finished My dark Vanessa last night and it was a 3 star for me, the writing and the story are well done but Vanessa as a person I could not like through out, I had a lot of sympathy for her because of the manipulation and trauma built through the years but as she grew into an adult I found it hard to feel the same way, she lacked so much that made me feel angry and frustrated which at the same time I was thinking of how someone living through that would end up? i had to keep putting myself in her shoes because she was so hard to like as a character. I wanted to DNF it half way but I pulled through and in the end I was left feeling like I could have been fine never reading it.
I love your recommendations. Something about it is different than other recommendations, thank you!
The moment i saw slammed and the little life, I knew My Dark Vanessa was coming up.
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 love season 2 of Bridgerton too so I will definitely check out A Lady for a Duke.
Rebecca is currently on my shelf but I haven’t gotten around to reading it yet, but I definitely will!
lowkey happy that I did read most of the books you recommended instead of the one you hated (except for normal people, I did read that and I also very much disliked it but that was completely because of the writing style, considering that I loved the show)
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
I love this idea so much. I also love the fact you begin it with Rebecca as a recommendation.
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
I'm so glad there is someone else that loved season 2 of Bridgerton and was completely let down by the book! I'm a general believer that the book is better than the TV/movie adaptation so when I saw a bunch of ppl on tik tok hyping up the slow burn of the book being better than the show, I had to read it. Its awful. The slow burn was not slow at all and Anthony was awful in the book compared to Johnathan Bailey's portrayal. Also as a desi woman, it was so refreshing to not see the "pretty for a brown person" trope in the TV version.
I guessed all of the books you were recommending except for in the dream house 😭 i love ur videos if you cant tell
There was a film called Just Like Heaven where a woman got into a coma, her apartment is sublet, and a man meets her amnesiac ethereal form. The comparisons between that and Verity made me laugh so much!
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 !)
My day is made🥺💜💜💜thanks Hannah I enjoyed your videos are my sunshine 🥺💜💜💜
I still can't believe that some people have the AUDACITY to praise A Little Life, to be honest so it was nice to see you recommend a book that DOESN'T hurt for the sake of hurting or to be edgy like that one.
Rebecca sounds a lot like the movie Crimson Peak in terms of how the story is set up, it sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out 😁
There were earlier adaptations of Rebecca including the one done by Hitchcock. Crimson Peak doesn't really resembles the intrigue.
That is because Rebecca and the movie Crimson Peak are both considered Gothic stories. The theme you are picking up on is pretty prominent in the genre. Wuthering Heights and Mexican Gothic also have this "I am in this old house with a dude and something ain't right here" vibe. Oh and Jane Eyre as well. And We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
I thought the same thing
It's always interesting to me how many booktubers whom I normally share opinions with (if not to the letter, pretty close enough) hate Blood and Ash. I don't think it was high literature but it's one of the better novels in this genre of books (what would I even call this genre lol) out there. But then again, I don't read a lot of them because to be honest they all feel like retreads of each other. Like you've read one you've read them all essentially. Which if you love that kind of setup is fair enough but in my case I was fine to enjoy it as a duology. I tried reading the third and just kind of lost interest midway. It didn't get worse I just felt like I got enough. I think it's because it honestly works better as a romance novel than a fantasy. Cause it's in line with a lot of my favorite romance novels from back in the day and not much like any of the truly great fantasy or sci fi lit out there be it now or in the past. Just felt I had to say my piece on this since I haven't before. and I'm sure plenty of people will disagree with me on it being even good as a romance novel but I only read certain Kinds of romance so that's also a factor. The really fluffy ones tend to bore me. I want my real life romance to be joyful/gentle and my fictional ones to be messy/complicated as fuck. and set as far away from our reality as possible. needess to say I never read a colleen hoover book and never intended to cause they are meant to represent "real life". glad to see I ain't missing much there.
Loved this video! Would love to see more such videos, especially better options for some trashy booktok reads!
The fact that I don’t like all the books in the list except (normal people) is amazing, thank you I took all your recommendations
Snow White with the red hair is one of my all time anime🥹🥹🥹🥹
Another rec is if you didn't like Sally Rooney, try Elena Ferrante
I'm curious coz Sally Rooney isn't for me, which of Elena Ferrante's books would you recommend?
Omg i love totally love Shirayuki and Yona of the Dawn
The Cruel Prince is a FAR superior version of The Court of Thornes and Roses. I wish I had known that sooner
I loved The Selection when I was in middle school but now that I'm a bit older...it's just kinda meh. Like I don't hate it. But it's defiantly not as good as I remembered