Can anyone talk to me about Colleen Hoover books?

[YaMuvva]

I started by reading Verity which I thought was brilliant and then a few of the others including It Ends With Us and Ugly Love. Loved them both!

I’ve just ready Maybe Someday which essentially glamourised cheating and it kind of pissed me off. But then read ‘slammed’ and OMFG romanticising a relationship between a high school student and teacher - I realised she just writes books either about adultery of abusive relationships.

Anyone else find this?

Yes. Her books are absolutely horrible. The only exception to this (in my opinion) are Verity and Layla which are slightly quirky.

I am half convinced CoHo is an AI bot developed by TikTok. All her books follow the same formula - young women, main character male with a horrible name, abusive relationship, implausible happy ending. Pretty cover.

I've read one - It ends with us - and never again.
I can honestly say it was one of the worst books I've ever read.

Oh god the names! In one book a man born in Northern Italy was called ‘Reid’ and in another a man born in Ireland was Harrison. Like can Americans not cope with non-American names. They’re very Yankee Doodle dandy names aren’t they

I’ve read two, Verity and Heart Bones. I got them free. I finished Heart Bones last week and instantly forgot it. Verity was ok although badly written and the sex scenes were poorly written and odd. I don’t get the hype at all.

It Ends With Us was one of the worst books I ever read. It reads like a teenage girl's diary and is stuffed with implausible and improbable people and events. A terrible author. Never again.

I've started reading Heart Bones and I instantly knew it wasn't my cup of tea and I've put it down. Some people who write blogs about books reccomend her books but I didn't like it

I've read a few but I feel like she does FAR too many sex scenes in most of them and I was just skipping so much of the book. It bores me to tears.

I read "It Ends With Us" horrifying DV. I wouldn't read another book of hers again.

I started It Ends With Us and got as far as the flower shop with lilies wrapped in leather and chains, and the bonkers millionaire best friend who waltzes in off the street to do up her flower shop for no particular reason, and by that time my eyes were rolling so far out of my head I had to give it up. Even the fact I was on a delayed train with nothing else to do for five hours couldn’t save it.

@TooExtraImmatureCheddar I know the feeling

I started with November 9, which I really really liked, and have since reread, and then read all the others. I quite like them when I want something trashy.

I think I posted an article about her, if you want to wrestle with the search function.

Dumb dumb

Yes, and worked in a bookstore and we were told to use our judgement on whether to sell to young teenagers (which is bloody hard because you get so many 13yos buying them!!) Two of the girls in work were huge fans but said the target age group marketed on sm was effed up!

I've enjoyed some of them. She's quite strong on character development and description. Sometimes a bit too teen for me and agree some of her books normalise dv/abuse which doesn't sit well with me and is extremely concerning that teens would read that crap.

I tend not to bother now because of above issues.

I read Verity after picking it up on a borrow shelf in my hotel. I thought there were excessive sex scenes which didn’t really add to the plot and the whole thing was so preposterous. It was readable, but when I got to the end I just felt annoyed that I’d read such twaddle.

I have only read It Ends With Us and I hated it. Too much sex and violence for me. Also very unbelievable ending. I felt I had to finish it as a friend gave it to me, and there's always that hope that it might get better. Awful book.

Oh, I just found it.

How Colleen Hoover rose to rule the bestseller list
By Alexandra Alter

To say she’s currently the best-selling novelist in the United States, to even compare her to other successful authors who have landed several books on the best seller lists, fails to capture the size and loyalty of her audience.

She holds six of the top 10 spots on The New York Times’s paperback fiction best-seller list, a stunning number of simultaneous best sellers from a single author. She has sold 8.6 million print books this year alone — more copies than the Bible, according to NPD BookScan.

And her success — a shock that she’s still processing, she said — has upended the publishing industry’s most entrenched assumptions about what sells books.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/books/colleen-hoover.html

https://artdaily.com/news/150679/How-Colleen-Hoover-rose-to-rule-the-bestseller-list#.Y0oIfy2B0lw

https://jacklimpert.com/2022/10/colleen-hoover-best-selling-author/

I started Verity yesterday after reading all the good reviews on Amazon, got half way through the second chapter, definitely not for me - I don't get the hype!

I read Verity but like others have said i didn't really get the hype!

We read Verity as a book club book. I disliked it, found it disturbing and extremely unbelievable and have never been tempted to read any others by the author.

I remember liking hopeless when it came out which was about 10 years ago, maybe because I was a teenager at the time. None of her books since have appealed to me though and I did try verity which I just couldn't get in to.

It ends with us just seems problematic to me from what I have heard and I am surprised it's been made in to a movie.

My dd and all her friends have been reading them since were about 15, 17....presumably for the illicit content.