Book CommuniTEA: Now Why Is Ms. Colleen Hoover Dominating Like This? [CC]
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Hey hey! Colleen Hoover: we can't escape her. She's been popular for a while but why did SHE explode during early pantene pro-v days? There's many an article hypothesizing why so I thought I'd read them and see what they think. Let me know your CoHo thoughts down below.
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Colleen Hoover is one of the biggest reasons I will never trust booktok.
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For me that reason is Punk 57. Bleghhhh
And The Binding and The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue. What absolute letdowns
Gurl, SAME.
@@kayhaych05 I haven't read The Binding, but The Invisible Life would NEVER END. What a letdown.
That article that dragged her writing basically called her books self-insert fanfiction, which has me WEAK.
I cackled 😆😆😆😆
Yeah I was listening and thinking “so it’s subpar insert fanfiction”
what does that mean self insert?
@@bluebellbeatnik4945i feel like most of the times a book is narrated from the main character's point of view their self inserting,talking abt themselves
The reason I don’t trust The NY Times bestseller list too.
I’m just losing it because I thought we had all decided she was problematique and not worth reading years and years and years ago, and then tiktok came along and ruined it.
She can’t be defeated 😵💫
My thoughts exactly. I thought booktube hated her enough 😂
And there's still people up in arms over 'cancel culture', while it's pretty obvious at this point that it mostly doesn't have much of an effect.
as a bookseller, I will NOT yuck someone's yum, especially a customer's....but when someone comes in and picks up a Colleen Hoover book, my soul dies a little.
Good on you!
Omg that's so relieving to hear because I always wonder that the owners of my local bookshops are judging my taste in books while they cash me out 😂😂
Yeah...as a former bookseller I feel you on this sentiment.
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As a fellow book store employee, I agree. When parental types ask me if "this book is okay for my teen?" I tell them I'm not bothered by the graphic sex, but the borderline abusive behavior, and toxicity masquerading as romantic is bad for everyone.
Her dominating the NYT bestseller list is not the flex some ppl think it is.
Particularly when the NYT list is rigged anyway.
Because of the factors. One literally almost all books that come from the USA on the bookshelf of bookshops have the "New York Times bestseller" writen on it. Two. Remember that 50 Sahdes of Gray was on it too? Yeah that's a sintom that you don't have to be a good writer to be there.
“My name is Jess. Let’s talk about some mess.” Iconic. Lyrical. Beautiful. Cover girl.
I try my best 🥰😎
Please let this be your opener for communitea from now on
My wish for the CoHo stans (The CoHort? The CoHoes?) is that they expand their horizons to other amazing "similar" books. Like this author is not a genre - she's an author. Keep exploring. There's good stuff out there.
They should absolutely be called CoHoes! Behind this 100%.
The CoHoes 💀💀💀 I hope that they reach outside of their Hooververse and pick up other books and genres
Seriously though, they SHOULD. I'm tired to seeing that they think that "romance books = CoHO". There are way better romance books written, plus with BIPOC characters and different sexualities involved. But NOOO, they would say, "CoHo is the goddess of romance genre" LIKE WHAT-???😀
Im easily influenced and when my friends kept suggesting me and begging me to read one of colleen hoover books, i was fine with it. I picked up its ends with us and oh my god its such a disappointment. I can't even get myself to finish
As a beginner reader can you suggest me some books that are actually good and not just viral for no reason?
Obviously people can read whatever they want, I just wish her books weren't being bought for school libraries... 😭
Colleen Hoover really went the "go girl give us nothing" route
I think that some people assume that reading is primarily an academic or intellectual pursuit. Once people realize that books are an art form very similar to music, television, and film you begin to understand that what people find enjoyable is highly subjective and varied. Reading is very beneficial for obtaining knowledge and information, but it can also be as pleasurable and easy to consume as anyone's favorite soap opera.
An English teacher of mine described books that are easy to read and fun without real substance “candy books.” They’re great and enjoyable and worth reading, but sometimes you need a bigger meal to balance things out.
Her books are popular because they are easy gateway books that introduce non readers to the joys of reading. It’s not a bad thing- these books help deconstruct negative views on reading developed often through poor school experiences. They’re those books that stay close to your heart because they were your first experience with the joy of reading and what reading can be. They tell you that you can be a reader. However, once you fall deeper into the genre and familiarize yourself with the tropes involved and see them reimagined or done differently, the books stop holding up over time. We all have those books in our lives.
I think the shatter me series might the 'book' for me because it was the reason I got into reading in middle school, but I dread the day I will think differently of it
Agreed. The series that hot me back into reading was sadly 50 shades (even tho i keep denying it), and my favorite, the selection series.
It‘s absolutely valid&necessary to have candy books, but they are not above criticism, especially CoHo‘s books. They romanticize a bunch of toxic& abusive relationships/behaviors& this is not okay,
Especially when you have such young readers as coHo does.
@@livenitup862 exactly. I hate it when bad books that teach awful things are excused because they're gateway books. There need to be better gateway books.
It may be a simpler read but that doesn’t excuse the problematic and harmful way CoHo addresses so many serious topics in her books and I think we can all be honest here, her writing is incredibly cringey. I will never comprehend how she is so popular because I cannot understand who her books cater to, it’s like the worst version of wattpad fiction getting to the publishing house. She romanticizes abuse in almost every book she writes and her style and prose is lackluster.
God, she was trending on twitter around a month ago with a bunch of excerpts and quotes from her books. One I recall seeing a screenshot of (have no idea what book it was for) had the main male character eating his love interest's hair to feel closer to her. I'm not even kidding.
what the --
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@@ChemicalPenguinn Yeah. There are other more disturbing quotes from her books that I saw trending. This is just one of them. I remember that it made me gag when I first read it.
@@hanasheik Yup. There are other creepy/weird quotes from her books that I saw when they were posted to twitter. This is just one of them.
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i'm not surprised, but genuinely stunned that a stunning memoir of culture and grief told through food and music like Crying in H Mart is doing a momentary splash while CH's books of toxic 'love' have timeless appeal
It’s wild
crying n h mart still sells a few copies a week at my shop!!! the paperback release has been pushed back twice for its popularity in HC.
CH writes a lot of traumatized characters into romance and glorify them. She reminds me of Anna Todd (the After series) on characters that have a lot of baggage and still gets into more toxic relationships. I didn't realize how troubled I was after I read AT's stuff so I know that CH is not for me. That is why I stay away from her stuff since I do not want to be in that head space.
I went to a bookstore today and saw Anna Todd's praise written on CoHo's new book It Starts With Us and it just further motivated me to never read CH books ever.
I haven’t read any Anna Todd but I’ve heard that
@@muskaan3711 OMG! Really?!?! Not a wonder since their books are similar.
God I hated that series
I had to look it up... "Normcore is a unisex fashion trend characterized by unpretentious, average-looking clothing." LMAO they were calling her average and mediocre 🤣🤣
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A coworker keeps leaving these books on my desk… I keep coming up with excuses as to why I haven’t read any yet. Now I understand why she never takes me up on reading any of the fantasy reads I’ve suggested.
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Is she trying to lend you them or is she buying them for you? I hope she’s not wasting her money 😂
@@bro.that.is.adorable.2633 hahaha!!! They appear to have been previously read…
Bestie we are here for your book suggestions. Fire away :D
As a woman... I don't begrudge her her success bc so many white men have made a living off being mediocre for centuries.
BUT, as a reader, I have no interest in reading her normcore books. Outside of her diehard fan base, it's telling that no one remembers her books after they've read them. Like airport reads, something you just pick up to pass the time on the flight.
Normcore is my new favorite word
As someone who works in an airport book store, that seems to be her “fan base” ppl who are just looking for something quick to read to pass the time.
I think of this kind of thing as "lowest common denominator" fiction that allows readers to plug and play without too much effort, and they can often insert themselves as the main character in order to live the story vicariously.
Lmao imagine being a professor whose favorite author went from Shakespeare to Hoover. If I was in one of her classes and she said that, I would get up and walk out.
That hurt my soul. 😅
Im so pressed at her lil fans who got Z-library to be taken down bc of their tiktoks... imagine z-library closing bc some kids wanted to read colleen Hoover
Exactly zlibrary was so useful for students who couldn't afford academic books
why what's wrong with z library?
@@art3mis677 I died a little when zlib stopped working. I got all my textbook from the site and one day it was gone
I'll never read Colleen Hoover's books and don't have a great opinion on them but as a bookseller I've noticed that the people who buy/read her books have said that her books got them into/back into reading and that's pretty cool. We just need to introduce those people to better authors lol
Thank you. I have never understood why CoHo is so ridiculously popular. I read "Verity" and it was an average to low-rated thriller for me. I have no interest in her domestic trauma drama. It makes sense that her writing hits the lowest common denominator in order to attract the widest audience. Hopefully, CoHo will be a gateway author for readers to mature their tastes beyond trauma drama and into actual good storytelling.
"An english professor who once considered Shakespeare her favorite author" girl what 🤣
What a leap 😳😂
Yeah I bet that quote triggered a lot of snarky discussion in the faculty lounge amongst her department colleagues!
That part in the article about the professor reading Verity and immediately becoming a CoHo stan made me LOL because I literally had the complete and total opposite reaction. 😂😂 I read Verity and loathed it so much that I immediately yeeted any and all of her books off my library's request list.
Hahahahaha
There are fanfiction writers who deserve more recognition than Colleen Hoover. I have given her 4 chances and hated every single book. I feel like the only reason her stuff is hyped up is because one bigger channel did and the others just fell in line to fit in.
As someone who's also interested in how Colleen Hoover's books got so popular, thank you for making this video!
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I like to read a little bit of everything. Colleen's books for me are quick easy reads, but I am well aware of how problematic her characters are and know a lot of these characters are not the type of people I should be dating in real life. My main concern would be more vulnerable younger people reading her toxic romances and then thinking that's normal. But then I guess that could happen with any book. I do not like how insane some of her fandom is and they call her an actual Queen. Just so many better authors out there who deserve more praise. So yeah, I do like to read her books but I do not think they're the best out there. Good for quick easy reads.
Well because toxic romances actually exist....it's just fiction.
“So she went from Shakespeareeee to Colleen, that is quite the transition!”🤣🤣🤣
Girl I’m☠️☠️☠️
Colleen Hoover will be this generation's Debbie Macomber or Danielle Steel. For some reason, they will end up the books that someone finds in their grandma's boxes and says "why did she read this?"
I teach high school, 9th graders, and I see so many of them picking up CoHo books and I die a little inside whenever I see that for multiple reasons but...yeah
Yeah, that seems a little too young to read CoHo, even her books marketed as YA don't really seems YA to me...
@@EmbraceWithin i feel for that trap to 💔 at least on the bright side they are reading.
😵💫😵💫 but yay they’re reading??
I as a 10th grader recently read CH book It ends with us literally i have never read these things. Too much
I've never been so happy that my niece likes anime more than reading
wait… so while she was a SOCIAL WORKER she thought it was a good idea to write a book about a high school teacher who dates his student. and not one that shows that it’s wrong, a LITERAL ROMANCE WITH A HAPPY ENDING.
"Apparently the Bible is the top selling book of all time...idk why it's a terrible book"
💀💀💀💀💀 I'm dead
The pages are so thin and it’s so long 😭
yikes
@@JessOwens best thing my priest ever did for me was go out of her way to get me a bible with proper sized text and pages that aren’t thin shout out to her she’s dead now but I’ll never have a priest as good as she was
Ion it’s a fact 😭😭😭 @Jess Owens is right 😭😭
@@Zenaidafromthemoon it truly does make a difference in the reading experience once you get one with normal sized font
*One of her fans got Z Library taken down.* 🙃🙃🙃
Your energy in this video is so infectious. You were cracking me the hell up this whole video.
I know work sucks. I really related to what you said in one of your most recent videos about how you just wanna be able to go to work, clock in, do your job, and go home without worrying about success and climbing ladders. I'm on your side. 😭 Hope it gets better soon!!
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Just a random legal tidbit: She probably blocked people claiming her son assaulted them on the advice of an attorney. When you're in a lawsuit/pending litigation/involved in something that could become a lawsuit, it's typical for the parties and those associated with them to not be in communication, especially written communications, as that is discoverable and could later be brought into evidence if the matter made it to court. Not saying it's right, just pointing out that it's the way things go.
From what I have read elsewhere the person wasn't accusing assault, they said that her son made them uncomfortable over online messages by asking her to send him a pic. They never met offline. According to Hoover, she DID talk to the girl and she thanked her for bringing it to her attention, offered to provide his address if the girl wished to look into her legal options, and reprimanded her son.
IDK the whole thing seems...less dramatic than it was made out to be on Twitter? Yes, her son was a creep for asking a 16yo to send him a picture, he shouldn't have even been talking to her. He is an adult. And he does something wrong HE needs to deal with the consequences. Not his mom.
I'm really craving some romance at the moment but it has to have good prose and well-fleshed out characters and everything I try is just bland and cliche. Suffice to say I will not be reading any Colleen Hoover 🙃
she would not be the one for well-fleshed out characters LOL
colleen hoover's books have some seriously cliche quotes
The romance well is pretty dry.
Yeah, good prose is not what I think of, when I think of Colleen Hoover.
You might try Nora Goes Off Script. I really liked it, especially the character development.
I really liked Caleb’s latest video talking about their history with CoHo - I don’t plan on reading any of her books but I get the idea of self-insert/Mary sue characters being easy for people to relate to
i saw someone on tiktok say she was “the new Jane Austin” … like …. what ….
Her books make me so mad. Like she has this huge platform and instead she uses it to actualize her toxic self fantasies. I had an abusive family growing up. I don't sexualized and glorify abuse. I stear clear of it because of that. Just no. Yuck. Also I found your channel today and really like it. Looking forward to watching more.
i’m shocked about the way my friend hyped It Ends With Us, only for me to borrow it and spot so many things wrong with it from the start.
i had never heard of Colleen Hoover before then, but now i’m scared to read another book of hers and i refuse to.
i am shocked that a whopping 20% of people think EVERYTHING should be taken literally in the bible, even though i shouldn't be.
i knowww, why am i surprised? but i am
I'm amazed anyone believes in it at all. Honestly, I've seen full fledged epic fantasy with 🐲 that have fewer plot holes and make more sense, but to each their own, I guess. 🤷♀️ So much of it is that it gets indoctrinated in people during their formative years. Just because it's a popular Cult, doesn't mean that it's not one. 😉
@@TheGoofy1932 A cult literally means a small religious sect. It ain't small. Atheist * roll eyes
This is approx 66 million people 🥲
@@lisah3460 The definition of a cult is actually a system of veneration of a person or object. Sounds like Christianity to me. 😉 But, I understand that you get indoctrinated at a very young age so I can see where you might not realize the full implications. Yes, some cults can be small, but that is Not part of the actual definition.
imagine if Colleen's intention was to make her characters unique, special and deep but then she gets these reviews🤣
I have tried to read her books multiple times. I'm a long time romance reader. I just can read them. I put them down and completely forget everything when I pick them up again. This has happened with like four books. They just don't stick in my brain. This video explains a lot lol.
As someone in social work, it must be nice to go from social work salary to selling more books than the Bible 😭 I am not a fan I’m just jealous 😭🎃. I read verity bc it was supposed to be her most disturbing one and honestly I just was not very disturbed and was team verity for most of the book anyway, so I was not the target audience
Tbh I don’t even know how the Bible could be a bestseller. you know I just thought you go and buy one when you need it😅
More than the Bible. Why?! 😭
I would laugh every time she terrorized her 😂🤣 but had to stop reading almost halfway through.
@@flowermagnolia4551 right like I kind of figured everyone who needed a bible would already kind of have one or two lying around, and wouldn’t think millions of people would need a new bible every year lol
My library’s Libby home page literally has a list called for fans of Colleen Hoover (and then a list of books by other authors) as the first thing you see when you open the app! Lol
Can’t escape her
At least they are trying to help direct people away from her in a way!
I started reading COHO n 2012. She’s a local author to me. I’Ve visited her book store and volunteered with her book box. However I’ve also out grown her books. I haven’t read a new release from her since it ends with us. But in person she’s always been very nice and very generous. Often taking care of the check at a dinner meet up.
I love hearing positive author interaction experiences 🥰
I like the comparison to Fifty Shades... inexplicable bestsellers help each other out
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I haven't read any of her books so I can't speak in the "harm" of them, but I won't shame someone for enjoying the... book equivalent to fast food. Sometimes you need that.
This is the reason why I stopped watching TH-cam videos that review books or talk about books. I guess everything is toxic.
im a bookstore manager and every time someone talks to me about her books i just smile and nod as not to be rude to customers😅 it’s a BATTLE out here
i heard so many iffy things about her writing that deterred me from picking up any of her books, but i recently found one in a little free library and decided to take it to try out. if i don't like it, it was free and i can just put it back lmao
I read slammed about a year after she released it and loved it. I've read more of her stories since then and enjoyed them to a point but none that I would want to read again. I finally stopped reading because I would have such strong reactions and not in a good way to her stories. Anyway, it's great that people are reading her books because hopefully, it means they are reading more. Waaay back when Twilight was released, a friend encouraged me to read it. it had been years since I read for pleasure so I picked it up and even though if I read it now, I probably wouldn't like it, I loved it then, and it got me back into reading so I'd like to think that maybe someone picking up one of her books will get people reading other books. You sometimes don't know how bad a book is until you start reading others.
The only Collen Hoover I ever read was "November 9" ... pre-infamous-edit ... and it was the clearest and fastest instance of 'oh this author's work is definitely not for me! Good day!' I have ever experienced.
Every single bookstore I go into these days has an entire display dedicated to Colleen Hoover and I die a little on the inside whenever I see it 😭😭
Honestly I read a few of her books and I didn't love or hate them and I honestly don't remember them.
Colleen Hoover has never been one of my go to authors. My primary reason for reading was escapism and a happy ending, that really doesn't seem to be her strong suit. I have been a romance reader for 26 years, I started reading adult romances in 1995 (I was 13) and by the time she started writing I was past the stage of my reading where I would have enjoyed her books.
I love how the options presented by that one professor are bland cliche books like CoHo or "highbrow" stuff like Shakespeare 😭 there's a LOT of different stuff in between there?? I guess I don't get it cause I don't get super emotionally invested in books that easily. All the CoHo stans saying her books leave them sobbing, but I feel I would probably just DNF them. I think I've only cried a little over 2 books: Babel and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World.
ive seen 14 year old authors write better than Colleen Hoover
Said it before in previous conversations but *clears throat and sings* "We don't talk about CoHo, no, no, no. 🎵🎼"
...except when we do. And I'm glad you did this video. I figured TikTok was a big influence but having read many of her novels when she was first self publishing, a lot of her sudden resurgence has been a trajectory I haven't been able to follow. I've never known the term "normcore" though. I have a hard time seeing that she would fit under that since her work is very trauma heavy among other things.
Also, having reread "It Ends With Us" - it really does not age well.
I’m tempted to reread it 👀
Her fans were the downfall of z Library
“the bible is like the top best selling book of all time, i don’t know why its a terrible book” im literally crying lol
JESSICA! 😂😂 not “it’s missing chapters” I can’t stand you 🤣
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"It's missing chapters" 🤣🤣💀
I'm not sure why or it was just me, but the basis of Hoover's books that you mentioned reminded me of Sarah Dessen. Does anybody remember her? I used to love her books but looking back, I feel like they had a lot of trauma and toxic relationships. But hey my teenage self ate those books up! haha
Yes i loved those books as a teenager! i remember thinking that she handled talking about abusive and toxic relationships well but i was also like 16 so I'd have to reread if i wanted to double check that
@@katemchale5753 I was thinking the same thing! haha
I recently reread some Sarah Dessen and as an adult, there were some red flags and the writing was pretty basic but I think the nostalgia left me feeling a little bias too.
i loved sarah dessen in high school until i read dreamland (?) the one where the girl stays with her abusive boyfriend to spite her sister or whatever and never touched her books again cause yikes™. that one just rubbed me the wrong way because i'm the youngest of girls and the mc blaming everything (staying with her abuser, her eventual drug addiction if i remember right, and i think losing her virginity too soon, too) on her sister instead as revenge because she's the perfect one was so fucked up. i think her sister apologized for being the reason, too, which is wild since all her other books were much better done (this was right before saint anything came out). i think colleen hoover is just the darker and adult version of dessen (never have or will read colleen so basing this on my hazy recollection of dessen and what i've heard about hoover, lol)?
I love you….(not in a creepy way). “It’s missing chapters.” “And James Patterson!” I’m rolling. 😂
I've been in my house for 9 years and I still have the temporary shades on 3 windows. It's a process....don't sweat it . Window treatments are supper expensive take it one room at a time.
I haven't read her books because I heard from some Booktube reviews that her romance books aren't really romance and are in essence "trauma porn." When I read a romance, I just want a nice romance. I was very curious about why her books are so popular though. Thank you for this video!
"🎶emotional damage🎶 sorry" my favorite part of the video 😂
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I kept seeing her books on tiktok, so I caved and bought It Ends With Us. Now this video got suggested the day after I bought it. 😭
"A better year than Gawd". Pure gold.
I read It Ends With Us when it came out in 2016 since people seemed to be very obsessed with her then. I looked at Goodreads and apparently gave it 4 stars but I know I would rate some books differently now versus then. I honestly dont really like reading about domestic abuse since it hits way to close to home for me and I have mixed feelings about using trauma as entertainment. It can be done in right and wrong ways. I dont remember the book enough to know if it was right or wrong in this case. I didnt rush out and read anymore of her books though 🤷♀️
It’s always interesting to see what you rated books you read years ago
@@JessOwens Sometimes I look back on book ratings from years ago an go yikes. I am older and wiser now haha
I've not heard much about Colleen Hoover and therefore never picked up a book of hers. You're basically where I pick up my TEA in the community as I am generally only keeping to the positivity on the internet. I guess my ignorance is bliss in certain ways. Thank you for talking about this. For those of us that don't really know anything about her and those who do.
I just finished "Verity" last week with Audible because it was free. I thought it was an interesting storyline but I did find myself rolling my eyes a few times with the cliche moments you spoke about.
In my opinion, her books, while not very good, are simply easy to read and exciting, and -- more importantly -- Hoover's used social media to promote herself quite well, so good for her, I guess. But I believe the real thing is that when books become HUGE with fans something self-perpetuating happen. I think a lot of people want to be "part of something." They want to belong to a social group where they can share thoughts, ideas, feelings, and so on. They want to talk excitedly about all the lines and themes and characters, and then explore fan art. It becomes a sort of "reader family" they can join and feel part of. Just my opinion, of course, but I think the same thing about the rabid fandom around 50 Shades, Twilight, or even Harry Potter.
okay so I haven’t read any of her books so I can’t comment on content or quality / my reading experience, but I feel like it’s common for authors to draw from their own life experiences or at least be informed by the social emotional dynamics present around them
She’s definitely not the only one
I bought It Ends With Us because the hype had me curious. But I can't justify picking it up over the other books on my tbr.
Smart choice because that book to me is one of her weakest
The energy in this video gives me life. I read Ugly Love, hated it with the fire of a thousand suns, will never read another, and think her stans are in a cult. A one star review on goodreads resulted in some dms from her cultists who told me to unalive myself...yeah, they're something else. Now if social media could come up with a notification for when everyone finally shuts up about her that would be amazing, until then I have groups on snooze.
I don't understand why people love Colleen Hoover's books so much when they are toxic. I honestly, don't understand how toxic stuff these days is getting passed off as romance. Another famous writer whose "Romance books"I find extremely toxic is Penelope Douglas.
These writers probably don't understand how damaging their works can be for young Impressionable girls.
girl this is the first video i’m watching from you and you’re so effortlessly funny i love you already 😭😂
That pop-up intro! 😂 And much as I love to see someone crush James Patterson's hopes and dreams (or at least sales) like this, I wish I were someone...good. Every time I've heard something about one of her books I've cringed a little and her being not great irl isn't super surprising to me. Her fans (the diehards, anyway) alarm the crap out of me as well.
I'm not fond of people who talk about problems and mistakes of others and as a Muslim I am also not fond of people who make fun of religion but you nevertheless seem very charismatic so I just subbed and am looking forward to watching more videos of yours.
CoHorts is a genius fandom name tbh
I told someone at work I was in a reading slump and I keep reading shit books and she was immediately like are u reading coho 😂
"I'm Jess. Let's talk about some mess!" LOL!
It's perfect, it rhymes 😂😂
New intro 😂
I read 2 books from her and was just like “that was okay” and then seeing “THIS WAS SO SPICY COHO WARN A GIRL NEXT TIME” or “this was the most captivating love story I’ve read in so long” I was so confused that I read a different book lol
Haven't read any of her books myself, and some of the passages people point out are pretty hilarious, but I think the pearl-clutching in general is a bit dramatic. But hey, it's booktok, book twitter, etc. People are often melodramatic about things they both like and dislike; it's part of the culture.
I thought it was interesting hearing about the digestibility of her books being one of the key factors of her success. It makes sense, and I think that's what drove previously ridiculously popular books like Twilight. If her books appeal to people who consider themselves readers, great. But the audience of people who don't consider themselves readers is so huge (honestly, that quote from the woman whose fave author was Shakespeare struck me as someone who hasn't read much beyond her high school curriculum), so if they're presented with a bunch of books that are easy to consume, feel fun and dramatic in the moment, and are commonly talked about (even if they're generally mediocre), it's going to do numbers.
The only CoHo I've read it Verity and as a thriller reader the only word I can use for it is mid.
I've never been tempted to pick one of them up, even after finding out a lot of people love them. Since then I've seen the good reviews and the way they express themselves over the books also keeps me away from them. All this hype reminds me of Fifty Shades, and I tried reading the first book and I couldn't make it one chapter. I feel it would be the same with her books.
I don't do tic tok. I just started booktube in june 2022. I learn about Colleen Hoover from a Barnes and Noble customer. I liked the few book I have read. I think people have to much time on there hands ✋️ to care about WHY someone artistry is doing well. 🤔
Reading coho is like watching trashy reality tv. Not here for the character growth here for the drama. Having said that she is often a 2/3 star for me.
We constantly are replacing our copies of her books due to wear and tear. They're not as popular (at least compare to other really popular hold choices), her books still seem to get taken off the shelves faster than we can reshelf them.
I'm not trying to hate on Colleen Hoover lovers so please, go forth and enjoy what you want regardless of what some random white woman on the internet thinks!
I read one Colleen Hoover - Verity - as it was touted as being a really great plot twist. I personally felt like it had a few plot holes and was overall meh to me. In my opinion, it read like a good surprising thriller to someone who has never read a thriller before or very rarely reads them - and I think that's part of what makes her popular. She doesn't slot perfectly into any categories. She doesn't quite write Thrillers, doesn't quite write Romances, doesn't quite write Women's Fiction or Erotica, and so she is inadvertently introducing people who are fans of one genres to the other genres. So it's not really the best romance ever, but if you're used to reading say Thrillers and pick up a Colleen Hoover you're gonna get a pseudo-romance with Erotica hints you propbaly aren't used to seeing in Thrillers necessarily. In that way it can feel very fresh and unpredictable. She's not the first person to mix genres like this and won't be the last, it can be super hit or miss if genre mashing like this is successful. It just seems she's sort of found a particular recipe that's working with her fans.
A booktoker was making a list of books she'd reccomend that I was finding myself interested in buying because she was making them seem like fun reads. Then she added a Colleen Hoover book to the mix and it made me question picking up the others which i admit may not have been fair to the other authors but still
I have really enjoyed a few of her books, definitely some misses but I just love the creativity that she brings to her books in terms of outrageous plots. Yes, she isn't the strongest writer, but for me her books are fun!
Thanks to her stans Z library got taken down...
I have been reading her books from the beginning which was many years ago, so It's crazy to me how much she has blown up. I would equate her books to a delicious pint of ice cream that hooks you from the first bite and you have a hard time not eating it all in one sitting. Plus most of her books make me cry, so I need that pint of ice cream for real lol. Her books are not masterpieces by any means, but they hook you and make you feel all the feelings and I think people like to feel a strong emotion while reading.
Very much popcorn reads
That is the perfect description of her books. I 100% agree.
I just heard of Coleen and read “reminders of him” in 2 days.. yes it was cool, I think I read it so fast because I want it to hurry up and get to the end to see if I would feel the way I see others feeling about her books. I thought the story was nice, but it didn’t make me feel like it was the best book ever or that I can’t find better. It tugged at my heart strings at points, but I feel like it didn’t take me all the way “there”… it was like, a dope book for a high schooler.. it made me feel like I was watching an entertaining episode of a series versus an amazing movie.
About the trash can. The trash company's deliver them or maybe the city in your case. We pick up damaged cans and/or from canceled customers, repair, power wash then deliver them. If your very lucky you get one of the brand new ones bought in bulk by the company/city. Also usually delivered by the company/city.
I read a few Colleen Hoover Books and I enjoyed it. You dont have to concentrate a Lot because Hoovers Style of Writing is very simple or unpretentiously. Reading Hoovers Books is like watching a Netflix Series and relax. A thing that kind of stresses me sometimes is that I cant develope strong emotions towards her Charakters fates and stuff Like a Lot of other readers, Her Books are great but Not on top of the world. Her characters backgrounds are very extreme and I Always feel so sorry for them. But after this Video I realised that almost the only characteristics are their traumas, we dont know more about them than them having had a hard life before....still I am pretty Sure I am gonna read more of her Books in Future bc. I think she does a great Job representing the heartbreaking fates many people have to live through in our world.
I bought Verity when it was new here in Germany. I thought it's a thriller, because it was sold as a thriller. There were no obvious signs that there'll be so much er*tic stuff in it and the awful writing of the husband... that guy was less than generic. He was an object to satisfy the protagonist's (and reader's) fantasies.
It's the worst book I've ever read. It reminded me of my weird fanfiction phase. The book is giving "I don't want to admit I love p*rn so instead I read adult books". It's the equivalent to looking at the underwear section of fashion catalogs if you know what I mean.
I'm still angry about the money I spent on that book. I threw it away after I finished it.
I've only read Verity via free audiobook and it was okay until the ending, which almost rolled my eyes out of my head. It was definitely a popcorn read for me, I wasn't looking for deep plot or characters, just an engaging storyline which I felt it delivered for the most part. I agree with what you said about her writing and characters being so blank slate that it's appealing for a self-insert type adventure. I think I paid 50 cents for It Ends With Us at a thrift book store, so that'll probably be the next one I read, if I get to it. I had to buy my own trash cans too, it was fun trying to fit them in my Toyota 🤣