Colleen Hoover, Who Hurt You?

[@AlizeeYeezy]

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[@samlerf]

By the way, as you are interested in writing, the youtube channel "Diane Callahan - Quotidian Writer" has great videos on the subject.

[@andradadi]

Need more of Alizee's book reviews because i can't tolerate other book reviewers on yt. They're absolute shit and act like kissasses

[@Hotcheeto4]

next time you talk about coho you should mention the coloring book she was going to make based off "it ends with us" a book about domestic violence cause that was such a great idea (sarcasm)

[@LalaLove-t2f]

😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅​@@samlerf

[@martabarrales3112]

"she's prettier when you're inside of her." ma'am i dont think i've ever felt the need to punch a fictional character more

[@QManagerin]

And a woman wrote this shit...why?🙈

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

I have written an awful awful person to be an antagonist (not a villain. Because both the protags and antagonists are villains) And even I never wanted to sucker punch Tim. ... Maybe I need to take notes from Colleen Hoover

[@RinLockhart]

That's the most disturbing line I've read.

[@arthurmorganSUN]

That means it works! (I haven't gotten to the part of video yet) wish I could write someone that despicable, I'm always weak in writing those.

[@xLiLlyx98]

To be entirely honest, I expected that line to appear way earlier than it did and to be in the context of a sex scene, or like, him recounting a sexual encounter to a friend and dropping that absolutely abysmal line about her to another dude. But the actual context was just as bad/worse. Yay CoHo.

[@sangoinuyasha8]

"When Colleen Hoover writes about sex, a rare endangered species gives up and goes extinct." 😂😂😂😂

[@AlizeeYeezy]

RIP 😞

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

Me. Its me. Its my will to live

[@pinkpusheenpaws]

the vaquitas are next on her list

[@ayushikhetan9012]

😂😂😂😂

[@ivaveljovic9386]

​@@elvingearmasterirma7241I relate to this so much sister/ brother❤

[@saltyest]

Colleen Hoover sure has some ideas and she writes them

[@AlizeeYeezy]

honestly that's more than i ever do

[@AverageBaraEnjoyer]

she's definitely creating words out of letters

[@yasmineh.1333]

@@AlizeeYeezy Something, something, Ratatouille monologue about the nature of creation vs criticism

[@reii69420]

She’s definitely making words out of letters and chapters out of words

[@SallyJoeTimestamps]

LOL

[@sadiesullenger3334]

I have to say, Colleen Hoover has cured my embarrassment of currently trying to writing a horror story about murderous mermaids. She’s made me realize it could always be worse. Cheers, Hoover🎉

[@ImaginaryAlchemist]

You should check out _All the Murmuring Bones_ by AG Slatter, it's a good story with murder mermaids. So it can definitely work!

[@bhyteme]

hi hello, i am very interested in this murder mermaid thing and i hope to read it someday so please don’t be embarrassed or compare yourself to this mess because your idea sounds awesome

[@aricaj.3006]

This sounds fascinating and I'd definitely be interested in reading it

[@ihatemickiegee]

don’t doubt yourself queen! _(that’s not me presuming gender btw i wanted to say it like that before i saw the name)_ the *original* little mermaid is an exxxtremely dark and rather horror-ous _(i know horrorous is not a word)_ story and it’s absolutely fantastic. so a tale about a MURDEROUS (especially several) mermaid?? hell yeah. i mean do you remember the ones in hp goblet of fire? literally mermaids work even better as terrifying creatures than as girly fish just chillin on rocks. i think you’re gonna kill it with that story. let us know if you ever finish it 😈

[@NighttimeLibrary]

Murderous mermaids? Sign me up! Good luck with your book, looking forward to reading it one day!

[@cho8627]

I remember having a conversation with my 14 y/o cousin about books and she told me she read some CoHo books and that she "can't wait to experience a romance like the ones in her books" and I IMMEDIATELY gave CoHo a big mental side-eye. Just, no. Someone please stop that woman. PLEASE.

[@reii69420]

Oh god, oh no.

[@hind__]

Yiiikes

[@arminarlert6011]

THIS. THIS is exactly why i shit on Colleen Hoover wherever i go

[@stanbasicidol9444]

I think the issue is not fully on Colleen Hoover, Sure she writes shit, but why on gods earth is your 14yo cousin allowed to read such things without being sat down and given a talk about she should not form her expectations of the real world based on romance fiction? She is 14, intelligent and old enough to understand if someone she trusts explains that to her.

[@cassidyreid5059]

@@stanbasicidol9444 I do have to agree with this. Books such as CoHo's shouldn't be sold as romantic fiction but no 14 year old should be accessing books like this. I was reading books from the teens section, I didn't even know books like this were out there... and yes, social media has certainly affected how much young people are exposed too but that should be causing their older influences to ensure they aren't being exposed to subject matter they aren't prepared for. Ask what's in the bag, ask what they're reading, force them to think about it a little more, and their common sense will help do the rest, I really do believe that. Youth need to not be left alone so much, they don't know any better :( Also, no offence meant at to the OG commenter, hopefully that was clear but just in case, I wanted to clarify I merely saw an opinion I agree with.

[@ineffablepenguin5052]

Honestly the fact that the big reveal was “Look, she wasn’t ACTUALLY changed by her traumatic injury!” is pretty damn horrifying. Like what fantasy is this? If you get changed from a traumatic event your partner will tire of you in a hot second unless it’s revealed you were literally possessed? She wasn’t even acting all that strange, just what I would consider a normal trauma response. So much yikes.

[@cranberryrosebud]

It was so gross how they were essentially like, "oh, thank God it was actually Sable, at least Layla doesn't have all that baggage! She's loveable again 😊" Remember, women, if you get traumatized, you won't be much fun, and the best men love a fun woman! So stay mentally stable 🥰 Ick.

[@knight_nash]

colleen i’m BEGGING you to learn the definition of romance

[@secundaludghens9649]

Even makes you wonder how shitty her relationships have been for her to think any of that is vaguely romantic. Like, bestie get a therapist

[@ettaetta439]

​​@@secundaludghens9649 she used to be a therapist 💀💀💀💀 she just likes the clout and money she gets from promoting abusive relationships to people who don't know any better.

[@tourmii]

@@ettaetta439 that makes her so irresponsible imo 😥😥

[@ettaetta439]

@@tourmii girl, you don't know the half of it. She doesn't put trigger warnings on her books because she doesn't want them to be spoiled (not triggering trauma victims matters more than your plot twists, Colleen) and she continues to write dark romances and label them as romance so that more people will read them. She sells them to young teens for clout because if she labeled them correctly and didn't let teens be in the possible market for them, she wouldn't get half as much money as she does. She even attempted to make a coloring book of "It Ends With Us", which was a book about a horrible relationship that was based on her mother's past traumas. A coloring book. What were they going to color, the bruises on Lily Blossom Bloom's face after having been pushed down the stairs? Furthermore, It Ends With Us is labeled as a romance despite the actual romance being a side story, and the main story is depicting an unhealthy relationship that is meant to be toxic--so it should not have been labeled as romance. Again, that's just a way to get more people to pick up the book expecting a cute fluffy romance with some angst, only to find no romance and just all angst. All for that extra money. Also, Slammed is a teacher-student romance. She really wrote one. And defended it by writing a small age gap where he's like 20 and she's 18, when it's not the age that matters, but the power dynamic. They fell in love in like three days and the student was guiltripped in text for possibly ruining his life, which is standard gr!!! mer thing to do. Good thing to teach your young audience.

[@blah914]

books in the Romance genre doesn't have any obligation to be romantic. you have misunderstood the genre.

[@dayzeethecozy]

I always thought that Colleen Hoover’s writing works better in the context of horror novels.

[@ImaginaryAlchemist]

Honestly, this would be a decent idea for a horror or thriller novel. But of course it's CoHo so of course it has to be a toxic romance where everyone sucks

[@chiefpurrfect8389]

The only problem is Colleen Hoover doesn’t think that

[@WinningSidekick]

Yeah, her writing has this weird claustrophobic feeling. It could really work in a horror novel.

[@dayzeethecozy]

@Cordelia Thompson Ikr

[@shaycrowley3262]

​@Cordelia Thompson sorry WHAT

[@itscomingoff9230]

Colleen definitely wrote one of the books of all time

[@rizzobeloved]

Yup CoHo definitely put words on a page, several pages if I recall correctly

[@fairynayeon69]

LMAO

[@sapphiresketchess877]

she did indeed

[@dariadaniellemusic]

She actually wrote quite a few of the books of all time. Arguably too many.

[@waffles658]

She definitely wrote a book. That’s for sure

[@littlekishmish]

It’s so disgusting to me that Willow and Leeds essentially took advantage of, abused, and tried to think of ways to discard someone - not just because she was traumatized, mentally ill and not “happy enough”, but because she was completely helpless and could not stop them.

[@YlvaTargaryen-Potter]

Honestly I feel for Sabel. When she was screaming on the bed horrifying.

[@mitchellhouser1572]

Yeah. It wasn’t self defense the second time, they just killed a confused mentally ill woman

[@TenderNoodle]

Would’ve been a great horror book and commentary on how men see women as dispensable entertainment, even to the point where they would rather mess around with a ghost than take care of someone they think they love. Unfortunately though, coho doesn’t have the capacity for that

[@nyctolita2429]

completely agree. this is genuinely a really disturbing book. if coho was a better writer, this could've been an amazing commentary on the neglect/ abuse people face from their partners after going through trauma (be it physical and/or mental). unfortunately, she's not. this is just a shallow, misguided and disgusting defence of a narcissistic man and his continuous discovery that ~other people have feelings~, a lesson he can't even retain for more than a page at a time

[@bunnywavyxx9524]

@@TenderNoodle honestly this could've been an amazing psychological thriller, unfortunately this was written by colleen hoover so it won't be anything with a morally sound, intelligible message

[@daisymae6]

Colleen Hoover being an adult woman writing these stories doesn’t feel real to me because they feel like an “edgy” 12 year old is writing them on Wattpad

[@whereveriam]

i feel like the books on wattpad are better 😭😭

[@georgeweaver9665]

That really, essentially is one of the many things: being “a child in an adult’s body” quintessentially amounts to…🙄

[@moatrboat]

it seems like she hasn't had a single healthy relationship and i feel kinda bad

[@georgeweaver9665]

@@moatrboat well, you need to be exceptionally careful with something like that. don’t forget she’s technically pretty toxic herself. specifically given how she apparently defended her son after he sexually violated a girl much younger than he was.

[@galaxygirlstudio5347]

Damn. My Wattpad stories from when I was an “edgy” 12 year old were way better than CoHo books

[@WinningSidekick]

See, this could be such an interesting horror story. A young woman becomes traumatized after an attack. Her boyfriend begins to quietly resent her for not behaving like she used to. Then, to make matters worse, a ghost gravitates towards them. It begins to communicate with him and to, at times, briefly possess her. The man begins to fall in love with the ghost, who reminds him so much of his girlfriend before the attack. Just... Make the plot twist be instead that the ghost is malevolent. The boyfriend agrees to do a ritual so she can possess the body more easily, thus making his entitlement and willingness to sacrifice a living woman's autonomy for his selfish pleasure the thing that dooms them. Boom. Fantastic horror material right there.

[@4eva123]

It is a horror story... it's genred as such...

[@florae.gardens]

hold up.. this person's on to something!!

[@Bondgirlhopeful]

This is such a cool horror story idea cause it’s scary and so in line with the actions of certain evil men

[@maddieb.4282]

@@4eva123oh no are you trying to defend Coho? Honey….

[@sydliminal]

I'd read that

[@HeraThea]

The rant about how unique and ☆quirmky☆ she is for wanting a taco

[@llcdrdndgrbd]

Eating is so weird lol

[@xLiLlyx98]

A woman that EATS? how sexually charged and attractive. Probably a phallus analogy in there somewhere. I'm so annoyed by this trope..

[@jacobbesler3214]

Leeds is like one of those guys that starts cheating on his wife when she's pregnant because she gained weight and wasn't up for sex, then gets annoyed with her for getting fit and horny again afterwards because it interferes with his attraction to his side chick. Ignoring the stupid twist, Leeds shows nothing but annoyance every time he notices Layla displaying behavior he claims he liked

[@user-sg4ov7ng4h]

Reminds me of the statistics of abuse skyrocketing after pregnancy

[@NearsightedNarhwal]

It’s roe frustrating because coho COULD write very good books about abuse…if she didn’t constantly try to justify the abuser with a traumatic backstory

[@frankensteinlives]

Colleen Hoover has a 19th century doctor's understanding of head trauma, where the best idea is, "Ghosts! You've got ghosts in your blood!"

[@d_alistair-years]

Honestly, most of the characters in this book need to be trepanned

[@NearsightedNarhwal]

“Hey doc I’ve got a headache” “Hmm.. I’ll go get the guillotine”

[@Jane_Doe-o4r]

Same vibe as "You've got orbs in your brain."

[@JamieLydon]

As someone from Leeds I’m losing it at the brooding bad boy main character being named after the least romantic place on earth

[@lllamalamoa5072]

I mean, it could be worse. He could be called Bradford.

[@jameisname6177]

@@lllamalamoa5072As someone qui has the unfortunate fate of being stuck here for the next few years, calling him Bradford would’ve sent me into the stratosphere-

[@d_alistair-years]

I know CoHo got the name from a street sign while travelling, but I can’t shake the feeling she thought Leicester (Lester) was too easy so went to the absurd choice

[@novoime710]

need a man named Blackpool stat

[@hailghidorah2536]

I mean, Leeds has a giant prehistoric fish named after it. That’s pretty romantic, right?

[@piscesfinalgirl]

there's so much to unpack here. like, just the implication that layla SHOULD be able to bounce back and be her bubbly, quirky self right after her traumatic attack and the fact that she seemingly doesn't is a hint that she's possessed. and when layla/sable displays symptoms of sable's various mental illnesses (obsession with weight, need for validation) that's what renders "layla" undesirable to leeds and causes him to fall out of love with her. like, the expectation that layla should always be his perfect manic pixie dream girl and the second that she needs to leeds to take care of her, and isn't constantly happy, that's a sign that something isn't right and that it needs to be fixed.

[@kindred-spirits]

To me it portrays how a lot of men don't view women as human beings in their mind. They're in love with this image they have of her in their head, not the actual person. God forbid she does something that doesn't comply with the unfair standards they've imposed on her.

[@georgeweaver9665]

@@kindred-spirits See, a lot of those particular “men” are usually those that have clearly NEVER emotionally matured beyond that of middle-school. Obviously, not all men are like that, thankfully.

[@Jamangel]

Oof

[@DriftingMiasma]

I will say one thing for Colleen, she definitely put words on a page, in some sort of order. That is indisputable

[@straww_berryyy]

It was a book alright

[@violeta3555]

I’m very confused on how CoHo could have become as popular as she did. Even if she was going to horror it would feel like…. Dark Harry styles fanfic style

[@ImaginaryAlchemist]

Considering some of the other things that have become popular, I'm personally not surprised. Let's be honest, the writing in Twilight isn't much better and look how popular that got lol

[@emoscotchtape]

@@ImaginaryAlchemist millennial women have been taught to romanticize abuse (see twilight), and then a few gen z as a result. That's cohos entire market

[@AK-rx8gp]

​@@ImaginaryAlchemist i can at least understand twilight's appeal, like if you're an emo kid who thinks vampires are edgy and also craves love then it's perfect lol. But colleens books are just ..... so devoid.... Of anything...

[@nickywal]

So after, that inexplicably got an adaptation that shows all the abuse and fighting

[@abhainn35]

Two reasons. "Romance" and Tiktok. The idea that abuse is romantic has been shoved down our throats so much over the last two decades that it's become almost expected. The general audience doesn't even question it because they've internailzed the messages. Romance is also the most popular genre (for some reason). We need more books with heavy emphasis on other kinds of relationships gods damn it. Meanwhile, Tiktok is mostly teenagers. Namely inexperienced teenage girls. The app is incredibly popular so it's a good place to advertise. People see these books, decided to read them, and interalize the messages. They like CoHo so they make Tiktoks about her and perpetuate the cycle. So it's Twilight all over again.

[@pam7705]

The ghost communicating via a Word document is like the modern version of Voldemort's journal in Chamber of Secrets lol

[@lariwarshong6689]

My thoughts exactly

[@SilentProti]

It's the Patrick Swayze movie

[@baddie1shoe]

Lol 😂

[@baddie1shoe]

Or tv show ‘Ghostwriter’ on PBS?

[@jamesrule1338]

"Leave me alone books I continue to read" is such a mood.

[@jaimeeshivers5001]

My coworker recommended me a coho book and I just wanted to take her hand and lead her to any other author

[@Rzo139]

If a coworker ever recommends coho to me, I'll take their hand, take the stairs to the roof, hug them, and have us both jump off the roof.

[@poppy652]

Or to therapy 🥲

[@llcdrdndgrbd]

Just quietly hand her a better book on Monday or something

[@mauri-mattiaslaanesaar5305]

Watching Alizee be mean to Colleen Hoover is one of the few things in life that bring me pure joy

[@georgeweaver9665]

Being mean? More like, giving out very constructive and reasonable criticism of why these particular books are every bit as toxic as they are trashy.

[@geekgirl_luv4262]

@@georgeweaver9665most of Alizee’s commentary is legitimate criticism of these toxic and horribly written books, but there are also quite a few insults directed at Colleen Hoover in there too. Not that I’m complaining; the insults are completely justified and also very funny

[@georgeweaver9665]

@@geekgirl_luv4262 see, that’s precisely what I meant. if Hoover simply took some criticism and genuinely tried harder in terms of writing her books in a more objectively flattering and competent manner. she most likely wouldn’t be so heavily chewed out and thoroughly disliked by many people out there. specifically, the type that has been in equally abusive and toxic relationships in real life and therefore knows exactly why this particular “style” of writing does much more legit harm than good.

[@nananutmuffin7380]

I just got to the hair part. Oh my GOD. CoHo becoming a horror writer really is the best advice. That shit made me feel actual fear.

[@kbird6208]

I had to fast forward that part so I didn't 🤮

[@mer_acle8101]

omfg yess no horror movie i've ever watched has made me fell this sick

[@Oh_Hael_No]

I was eating when the hair part came up. I struggled hard getting that mouthful down...

[@Banuna]

This is honestly great unintentional commentary on the way that men (especially of older generations who are heavy on the “I hate my wife” comedy) expect their wives/girlfriends to always be the most pleasant version of themselves. Never get angry, stressed, need time alone or aren’t interested in sex due to things they’re dealing with in their life outside the relationship. And when they DO get angry over something justifiable it’s all “oh that ol’ ball and chain, your always wrong even when your right, the answer’s always ‘yes dear’” and that shit. The fact that women aren’t allowed to be people with more personality then just “happy” is disgusting. Obviously this is in reference to a specific kind of relationship dynamic and is not true for all men or anything, but this IS something I’ve see before quite often and is pretty common in the relationships I see around me personally.

[@jahanarahgraham8003]

Yeah I was thinking about this and all those reddit stories of guys falling out of love with their partners after they got sick/ traumatised or had surgery. Men suck :(

[@annafirth6738]

To be fair, yes dear is he right answer.

[@avelynn5976]

@@jahanarahgraham8003 this has been reiterated a lot, but checking the statistics on divorce after a person becomes disabled/terminally ill and the difference in rates between their male or female spouses is the most depressing thing you could discover.

[@georgeweaver9665]

@@jahanarahgraham8003 well, I would definitely NOT say something like that about just men alone. Obviously, women are perfectly capable of doing and thinking the same, exact sort of blatantly unsavory things.

[@georgeweaver9665]

and honestly, most male individuals who genuinely have that sort of very authentically sexist and trashy mentality, are obviously not high-quality men. hell, none of them are even “men” for that matter, but instead very obnoxious, misbehaved “little boys” trying to come off as such.

[@andy_panda2000]

Honestly, this would've made a perfectly decent book about some obsessive, stalker, murderous guy that killed his gf in a fit of rage when she tried to break up with him and insists that her ghost is living inside this girl that he's keeping hostage bc she domewhat resembles her... Sadly, we got whatever this is

[@geekgirl_luv4262]

Write a book please

[@zo.ilyouu]

no no no, this is very interesting

[@alexandrasimon7191]

The part about eating her hair convinced me that these books are like scientology: an elaborate plan to test how much nonsense you can feed people before somebody realizes you're just making shit up in order to mess with them

[@Catsafari25]

She called the male lead... Leeds? Even ignoring the (presumably unintentional) pun, I hope she knows just how unsexy that name is. I'm sorry, but of all the cities in England, of all the cities in YORKSHIRE, she went for Leeds?? Also the ghost going by Willow when the sister's name was Aspen feels like a bit of a giveaway.

[@manjiriawale918]

​​​@@alexanderburke2973or even worse....The boyfriends name is pickering

[@Jamangel]

LMAO

[@lembotron]

Can't wait for CoHo's next book where we are introduced to the hot, brooding male love interest named Milton Keynes

[@zo.ilyouu]

@@lembotron i could see colleen hoover using a name like “P. B. Acon” or “Ben Dover” unironically

[@KaizonArkin]

When some British lady's random tangent/existential crisis/mental breakdown about interviews and self-depreciation is more engaging and interesting than the story of an insane, haunted man that takes a manic pixie dream girl prisoner... Like Captain Falcon said, "You gotta do better, Colleen Hoover."

[@tanivsbpd4208]

Right?!

[@ihatemickiegee]

“some british lady’s […] existential crisis [..]“ 😂 i hope @alizee reads this comment i think she’ll crack the fuck up. but definitely much agreed. how sad is that - not just for the author’s lack of talent but, that we live in a world where video creators’ discussions of novels are actually better than the novels themselves, while the novels themselves are the things that are best-selling and bringing in millions of dollars 🫥🙃

[@redisthecoolestcolour]

No women should ever feel self conscious about the content she produces, especially on a podcast when there 52752067962626 men out there making podcasts about Sigma Male Financial Grind Mindset. I don't care if a woman hosts a 30m podcast counting the tiles on her kitchen ceiling, it's contributed more to the world than Fresh & Fit ever will.

[@ineffablepenguin5052]

The contortions that this author went through to try and be like “Look! The cheating, abusive behavior, lies, and gaslighting wasn’t ACTUALLY any of those things because of *insert stupid plot twist*” She really thought she was doing something clever here, ugh.

[@PrettyMissMeeee47]

39:08 i call this “men do drugs and discover empathy” it’s a podcast trope for me at this point

[@LadyMarvelyn]

And here I thought the plot twist was gonna be that they were both suffering from carbon monoxide exposure the whole time.

[@kbird6208]

That would actually be a pretty funny twist.

[@soapynena]

@@kbird6208pretty good explanation for the crack wattpad this is lol or, sorry, she’s definitely never taken a real drug. ibuprofen fic

[@zo.ilyouu]

@@soapynena girl probably took a dayquil and thought she was on cloud 9

[@GoldenPerception]

“I wrote it using pieces of my soul” glad we had the exact same reaction to that line

[@SoRePeSi]

Gonna tell ya, it takes a certain type of skill to accidentally write a guy cheating on his girlfriend with his girlfriend, and somehow make him justify it to himself while being both right and wrong about every fact of the situation. Mind the "accidentally."

[@illbeyoursupergirl]

*me putting in so much effort to just write one book and make it beautiful, then seeing THIS is what's popular and getting spit out book after book* 💀

[@missxfaith]

Ikr! I’m like “I gotta make sure my story is absolutely perfect so I won’t upset people” and then shit like this gets super popular. We really do live in the age of quantity over quality, don’t we?

[@ihatemickiegee]

literally you guys just made me feel a thousand times better / SEEN. i’m also a writer and feel like my first true work has to be absolutely perfect. but your first published work doesn’t need to be your magnum opus and def doesn’t need perfection… just needs you and your own creativity [and hopefully some time put towards editing 😂] ❤

[@anna5224]

At this rate, I'm tempted to send my 2 am writings to the publishing house. I might actually become a bestseller.

[@RandomSwiftie13]

Coho makes books for men with garbage fantasies about women that basically turn them into an object. That's why it's popular + a lot of young inexperienced people are into toxic sh¡t romance for some psychological reason...

[@maddieb.4282]

Don’t be bitter. Just do your own thing. There’s always going to be lowest common denominator material out there, but being jealous of it isn’t a good look

[@gokuxsephiroth4505]

I just chained this vid from Rachel Oate's review of Colleen Hoover's book Verity, and it's so funny to go from "Read a book, Colleen! Oh, sorry, that's too mean!" To "I hope they drown... it's a placebo, you nonce!"

[@linglingspacewhales1977]

My friend used to love CoHo…. I tried to be polite, so I recommended good books and good book tubers (she got most of her book recommendations from tik tok) and slowly but surely (it took a year)… she now despises Coleen Hoover. My work is done. Honestly though. Enjoy what you enjoy, my only gripe with CoHo is the marketing. Her books are marketed as romance and that is not the case at all. Perpetuating harmful and toxic relationships should not be marketed as romance. These books are giant neon signs saying “DONT DO THIS”…. But sadly, it always seems to romanticize these kinda relationships?

[@nightmarefanatic1819]

Characters like Leeds are great.... As villains. Also I really NEED you to read Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick. It's basically Twilight but with fallen angels, an even more toxic love interest and some absolutely hilarious prose. For example the prologue literally uses "The boy had arms and legs" as a description. Like great job, I totally needed that, I NEVER would have guessed that someone who looks exactly like a human had limbs.

[@emmyrose233]

YES! That series is one of the worst I've ever read. Alizee ripping it to shreds would make my year

[@nightmarefanatic1819]

@@emmyrose233 It's only saving graces are it's unintentionally funny when it's not being enraging, and it's prime roasting material. I would LOVE to see what Alizee would say about it.

[@purplemusiclover1597]

AHHH I REMEMBER THE CRINGE OF THOSE

[@nightmarefanatic1819]

@@purplemusiclover1597 To be fair I knew going into the series that it was bad, unlike HoN or something, but I wasn't prepared for how bad it actually was. Great googly-moogly was Patch an absolute piece of shit. Also, who thinks PATCH is a cool, bad boy rebel sounding name?

[@bhyteme]

that series still plagues me to this day i can never stop thinking about that one moment where a teacher basically allows the male lead to feel up the main character in class…. literally as part of a class assignment

[@benm3382]

I was listening to this as I rolled out of bed and got ready for work. I was a complete emotionless zombie, but then you said something like "uwu I'm not like the other girls, I don't have motor coordination skills" and I doubled over laughing. You woke me up, made me feel, saved my career.

[@shy2infinity]

ya know, after CoHo blatantly portraying mentally ill people as gun toting maniacs, I was terrified that the twist was going to be that Layla (Or Willow? Or Sable? I'm confused tbh) has DID. Though that's still kinda similar to what ended up being the twist.

[@DollfaceLizkah]

What book did she do that? That's awful

[@xxyzxxyz690]

@@DollfaceLizkah this book right here

[@panopticonseye]

oh god same. as someone dxed with DID i was like "she better fucking not be doing this"

[@ccrepaldi4740]

She should have just started the book from the girlfriend acting weird and we slowly piecing together why she is not her usual self from his account (which would be suspenseful enough, given he might be an unreliable narrator and we wouldn't know what got her in that place from the start) rather than opening the book with insta-love, a crazy fan shooting and a ghost revelation.

[@ducky19991]

I legit don’t understand why Hoover’s books got so popular. Do some people actually enjoy this? Or are they hate reading it like we are?

[@kenziedollx]

The jeans in the water would be enough to hate that character. What a psychopath.

[@kenziedollx]

im also not a huge picky person when it comes to reading books. as long as its not horrible writing i am usually happy with it. and this is bad lol.

[@kenziedollx]

i love a lot of dark messed up books. but damn this is baddddd.

[@jinaiallegra1050]

5:50 If he were allergic to aspirin, that would be the end of the book. Wouldn't that be nice.

[@sailoraries8086]

Leeds' lyrics are the worst version of "make sure you kiss your knuckles before you punch me in the face"

[@Kalopsia-dululu]

It's no big surprise leeds turned out this way 😔😔

[@heyitskhaliyah4009]

@@Kalopsia-dululu When they closed their eyes and prayed he would change 😢

[@zjellymold934]

COHO is the master of "leave your wife if she gets in an accident"

[@skylarjohnson7779]

I didn't pause the video when I went to take the dog out and came back to "I ate a strand of Layla's hair" and I think that's enough of this book for me.

[@tornado_2063]

As someone with disordered eating, I would be mortified, if a ghost entered my body and eat my food, without me having any control or memory of it. I feel for Sable, she gets treated very unfairly by the narrative.

[@justsomerandompersononthei1773]

I've also got an eating disorder (not bulimia though) and yeah that would be absolutely terrifying. It would probably make my already terrible eating habits so much worse.

[@cupio-stardust]

I have a binge eating disorder, and that would just make me feel even worse about myself.

[@badballerina3773]

I was in a local bookstore last year and two girls came looking for CoHo books, I told them I read her books and they’re bad and they cringed away from me and bought ugly love or whatever. I still think about that sometimes.

[@TreeDwellingShrimp]

Gotta follow the trend, even if it's bad for them.

[@Jay-p2q]

@@TreeDwellingShrimp or some people just might like her books, as trashy as they are.

[@ihatemickiegee]

@@Jay-p2q yeah but these seem like girls who wanted to read them just genuinely as good lit. seeing as they cringed away from OP as was said. but anyone who reads it just for the sake of enjoying trashiness, that’s something i’ll support!!

[@mittag983]

​@@Jay-p2q Probably because of TikTok they picked it

[@DollfaceLizkah]

You sound cringe for trying to control what people read. You're one of those people who gives unsolicited opinions and acts like you're not in the wrong

[@aricaj.3006]

I think a lot of authors who get famous for writing romance with questionable male leads (Hoover, Meyer, James, etc.) would definitely be far better suited to writing horror or thriller novels. Hoover's leads would work if she was writing something more along the lines of _Criminal Minds_ where the men are toxic or dangerous because they're actually serial killers in disguise or something to that effect. Replace badly justified romance with murder mystery thrillers in the making and the male characters would feel much more appropriate due to the genre shift

[@kbird6208]

She could have written this so that instead of getting Layla back into her body, he has to kidnap successive women for her to possess until they go mad and he has to find her a new one. That could be interesting horror.

[@lynnhummer7307]

Don’t forget that polish lady who wrote those 365 days series and the lady who wrote the after series as well…

[@maddieb.4282]

@@lynnhummer7307dude a list doesn’t have to encompass every single example and remembering all those bad authors isn’t something to brag about hahah

[@TreeDwellingShrimp]

This is like those old sitcoms where the husband thinks he's about to cheat on his wife but it turns out to actually be his wife in disguise or something (like married with children) so that makes it okay. Then the couple is more in love than ever because it's supposed to prove he wants his wife even when he thinks it's not her... NO. F THAT!!!! He was under the impression that it was another woman and planned on cheating. Idgaf if it turns out to be the wife. Throw that trash in the bin. Intentions matter! They wanted to and intended on cheating! It just turned out their treachery was unknowingly with their own partner. Bunch of swine.

[@alwaysannoyedforever518]

It's like the whole piña colada song.

[@cupio-stardust]

Didn’t that happen in family guy

[@Saibellus]

i think the most insidious part of this narrative is how heavily it leans on the "i KNEW i was doing something wrong but i just couldnt _help_ myself" trope. as if by acknowledging wrongdoing it erases it. its the same behavior that makes people think saying sorry is good enough to get out of trouble for anything bad they ever did.

[@HarbinGarble]

CoHo’s success gives me hope I can crap out bad books and get rich

[@AlizeeYeezy]

Honestly same

[@spOOkytimes]

so true 🤣

[@spOOkytimes]

@@AlizeeYeezy this is why I really like your videos. If these authors that you review can be successful writing whatever, I can be successful doing whatever. Enough blind confidence can carry someone just about anywhere in life lol but seriously, thank you for your content.

[@Tareltonlives]

Hoover: (Makes more shitty books about sociopathic male protagonists) Alizee: Aw shit, here we go again

[@kirapots]

CoHo is the best horror writer. Not the books themselves but that people actually think they are good.

[@kbird6208]

Someone needs to write the horror novel about characters who like CoHo and try to be like her characters

[@jenny5272]

Her book November 9th would work so good as a psychological thriller if she doubled down and made the love interest a terrifying stalker. I mean, he basically already was, she just had to stick with it.

[@nananutmuffin7380]

“It’s no Helena by My Chemical Romance is it?” had me laughing so hard😂 Much needed after the intense cringe I had just experienced from Leed’s “song” lmao

[@liv-_E]

I‘m living for your book reviews

[@lobeliaowl2482]

lmao there's a German song called "Layla" about a brothel. Gotta love that association that I'll have stuck in my for the rest of the video

[@liveatlife]

I immediately had that association as well!! To be fair, she is described as hotter (youthful?) and hornier than other girls in the beginning of the book?

[@lettucedaudience420]

.... danke, dachte ich wär die einzige

[@imogenarmstrong7836]

Please don’t stop these

[@space_pollution]

I thought the big reveal would be that Layla had dissociative identity disorder and “Willow” was an alternate personality developed after the accident to accommodate her garbage boyfriend’s expectations.

[@SpiritBox01]

Perfectionism and inner judgement can be so hard on the creative process. Your content is uniquely you Aleezy. I absolutely enjoy when you stumble on your words and are authentically you because it removes the need to be perfect to do what you want to do. I can't wait to go watch the interviews ❤️

[@AlizeeYeezy]

Thank you, it's a bit frustrating for me because my brain only tends to blue-screen in a professional context, but I'm looking into trying out some improv classes to see if I can work on it for my own sanity 🥴 but thank you! X

[@leaf1885]

You really did me dirty with the “head and shoulders, knees and toes”. I teach elementary school English in Germany and this song HAUNTS me😂 I can’t get it out of my head anymore!

[@dionysus06]

listening to this has assured me that the only thing worse than the oral exam i am about to have, is a Colleen Hoover book

[@nostradamus1162]

good luck for your exam ❤

[@SpiritBox01]

Good luck for your exam! Hope it went well ✨

[@AlizeeYeezy]

GOOD LUCK FOR YOUR EXAM!

[@rubybirchall1717]

Why'd I think you were talking about the dentist..

[@oddanderson9131]

What about an Oral exam based on Colleen Hoover

[@maddiesue1752]

holy crow caught this at 20s after posting, i’m feeling blessed and highly favored. i am obsessed with these reviews

[@mysideacc2770]

this book is an incel and an early 2000s "im so quirky XD" girl getting together and it's just as bad as that sounds

[@Vampgurl202]

It's like CoHo watched Jeremy cheat on Bonnie with a ghost in TVD and thought "I can do that, but WORSE" I'm sure that's not the case, but ya know

[@theodavis4565]

But wouldn't Willow know she's Layla?? Wtf why create a whole new persona for this? Saying "I'm not sable, not Layla, I'm Willow" also how would "willow" know the sable fan club thing? Coho must've been drinking some pretty strong wine while writing this. What a garbage heap.

[@mellmell45]

nah bc i read “it ends with us” and it was giving a 13 yr old wattpad writer who gets their inspiration from mafia tiktoks also, why do all the characters in cohos books fall in love 5 seconds after meeting someone?😭

[@ahshitherewegoagain7461]

I feel like a 13 year old using mafia tiktoks could write something hotter and more romantic than this

[@BritTheHater]

a 13 year old would certainly write better... and probably more consensual than cokehoe

[@mellmell45]

@@ahshitherewegoagain7461 tbh😭

[@raindrops8463]

Lol so trueee...In ugly love, the female lead tate is all head over heels for male lead miles after seeing him for the first time ever. I couldnt complete that book, but what I remember is just tate complimenting miles for his looks and for how good he is at s3x. She never said anything about his nature or personality.( idk if their relationship gets better later on, but it was definitely toxic up until i have read)

[@mellmell45]

@@raindrops8463 the same thing happened w the main character in “it ends w us”😭

[@yasminchan7425]

I think this is the worst one she has written so far. A good for nothing man, who has no actual real problem to worry about in his life, his girlfriend can't sexually please this waste of oxygen but a freaking ghost of his psycho ex can, so he takes advantage of, abuses, gaslights and manipulates a girl who's traumatised from being shot and has brain damage

[@user-do2ls3jx3m]

hi thank you for making this amazing video and accompanying me during my all-nighters we're like close friends now

[@AlizeeYeezy]

hey bestie

[@pixelmaster9964]

35:55 I think the idea of this women trying to explain that to anyone would be hilarious. “I was about to eat the pizza, when it just suddenly disappeared afterwards” … “No, I didn’t feel hungry after it vanished” … “No, I swear I didn’t eat it”

[@JR-gc7qy]

1:13:13 So mental illnesses are an intrinsic part of the soul now, and not chemical imbalances in the brain? Shouldn’t Sable have been freed from her mental illnesses from being in Layla’s body?

[@the_last_ballad]

Or maybe she can only possess other bipolar people? Or maybe her ghost isn't actually sapient, but rather just continues the patterns it had in life. These aren't any less terrible, but at least it's a bit more interesting.

[@wh0aheavy]

Zooey Deschanel the poltergeist. I'M FUCKING SOBBING 😂

[@HiChloe]

Yay!! My apartment literally flooded last night, but I’m happy right now because your review/summary/commentary is so fun :)))

[@abbyz13]

sorry you’re dealing with that, hope it gets sorted out & your home can be safe again!! ❤

[@AlizeeYeezy]

Sorry to hear that, hope your apartment gets fixed quickly! X

[@missxfaith]

I refuse to read any CoHo books. Every time I walk into a bookstore and see a full table of them I feel the urge to intensely roll my eyes. People really will pick up any garbage book they see on TikTok 😒

[@macklyon7476]

My 13 year old cousin reads these. She likes romance books and has been reading Coho since around last year. I had to send some reviews and talk to my aunt about how abusive they are. I appreciate her getting into reading because it's great, but I'd (her mother as well, she didn't know that Coho was adult) rather her not read about these stories and thinking they're "cute" and "goals" and because TikTok told her it's "amazing". Her favorite one was November 9 to show how bad it was. On that note: does anyone have any good romance type books for that level?

[@mittag983]

The Cruel Prince was good in my opinion but maybe wait till she's 14

[@jubileetea]

i'm 14 myself. i don't really like romance that much (autism alert) but i have a few suggestions? i haven't read all these but they're the only ones i can think of: - the school for good and evil (6 book series, it's definitely more of a fantasy book but romance is prevalent. very girlboss) - the geography of me and you (haven't read it myself, but it's in every single class library at my school) - nicola yoon (the sun is also a star, everything everything. to my recollection, neither have sex scenes but i think everything everything has a LITTLE spicy moment.)

[@Jane_Doe-o4r]

Sorry for the year-later reply, but I'd recommend the _Westfalian Triology._ The romances are all pretty tame and sweet, and I enjoy reading them even through I'm a bit older than your cousin.

[@CubeCompilations]

17:31 “sh*t is so bad around here that things are getting BIBLICAL” i burst out laughing 😭

[@Mila28.06]

Colleen lets all the intrusive thoughts win when she is writing

[@lettucedaudience420]

That just might be the best comment about Colleen Hoover I've read

[@mica8701]

not what intrusive thoughts are

[@greenginger6668]

Omg, I’ve ranted about ‘My Sisters Keeper’ so many times. I introduced my genetics professor to it and will bring it up whenever applicable. I read it at least 6 years ago. The book did exactly what it was meant to and so I have an extreme love hate relationship with it. The ending makes me furious to this day.

[@Reverse_Cat_Cowgirl]

I love it when Alizee makes fun of people who write about doing drugs that haven't hit anything harder than cake icing. 💀💀 I'm going to Hell now aren't I?

[@pohjanlepakko]

Just came home from a first date with a guy who was incredibly open and honest about his past and certain struggles, very respectful of my boundaries and who I felt comfortable just cuddling and listening to music from a shared pair of headphones with. Can't wait to have my opinions on men plummet to the ground again after experiencing yet another bland yet toxic (like cardboard seasoned by toxic mushroom dust) Colleen Hoover Love Interest, wohoo!! (haven't watched the video yet, so if this book has an actual nice man I'll look like a fool. Also your content is literally the perfect thing to have on while I'm painting, my productivity has skyrocketed since I found your channel)

[@cuckoos_]

Aww that's sweet, glad your date went well!

[@jophywong]

"anyone from leeds would deck her" - can confirm, currently watching from leeds

[@p0t.n00dle4]

Reading and hearing about Coleen Hoover books is like paying to be gaslit

[@imjayaija]

I love all of these long videos from you, and always put them on the top of my watchlist when they come out. You make me laugh so much, and honestly make it really entertaining getting through a lot of books I’d never read myself.

[@Morbinonit]

Thank you for being the barrier between me and everyone who's ever tried to get me to read one of these filthy books

[@ArawnNox]

"The martyr is back.. with a boner." I laughed harder at that than I should have, but damn XD

[@Placeholdernamee]

Her writing the lead character saying he wants to be a chef was me when I got my first job in fast food thinking it'd be a good one cause I liked to cook💀 yelling, getting burnt, walking like 10 pounds of grease out to the dumpster, lifting boxes of patties 2x your weight out of the freezer room to ANOTHER mini freezer near the stove, the freezer door getting a little stuck and you start panicking, getting popped by grease from the fryer, getting burnt by almost every appliance, cooking the same thing at least 70 times a shift, coworkers asking to use the bathroom just to get high so you barely have anytime to actually use the bathroom, eating your food on your break crying in a dirty backroom next to the mop, breaking down because you don't can't take making another 10 chili dogs in only 3 minutes, and having to wash the dishes that have been piling up because no one did them the entire shift and now you're stuck doing it at closing time 😭I learned that my hobbies should stay hobbies 💀

[@esthers3906]

The last time I went to the bookstore they set aside a whole wall at the front of the store for Colleen Hoover books. THAT was a scary story.

[@lettucedaudience420]

Collen Hoover is invading other languages too cause book stores (and libraries) wanna cash in on the existence of BookTok. We're surely evolving in an interesting direction

[@eveclass1716]

Every time I watch a CoHo book review, I think that *certainly* this male lead won’t be as bad as the previous one, right? And I’m always wrong. This guy might be the most angering for me bc on top of all the regular CoHo main man nastiness, the ableism he exhibits is *so vile and insidious.* You do not mess with someone’s medication. You don’t deny them it, and you don’t trick them into taking more than prescribed. You do not restrain someone in a mental health crisis, especially not in a way that is *actively harming them.* Traumatic events and sudden illnesses/injuries can put a strain on a relationship, but that does not excuse Leeds’s behavior in the slightest. He showed no compassion or empathy for Layla. He was sad because she wasn’t making *him* feel good. And then he used her vulnerability for his own benefit and only showed this performative remorse. Sorry that someone with a TBI and lingering trauma can’t be your quirky, upbeat, down for whatever gf anymore. Sorry her disability is bumming you out. That must be so hard for you. You’re obviously the victim here. 🙄 I haven’t gotten to what the twist is and frankly, I don’t care what excuse he makes. He is a disgusting, self-serving, manipulative piece of crap, and he deserves to rot for what he did to this woman he ‘loves’. For a majority of this book, he only cares for Layla inasmuch as she provides him access to Willow, and he would willfully harm her and violate her autonomy again and again to keep that access. I hate him I hate him I hate him.

[@Fairy_Teeth]

38:48 literally my boyfriend, had this huge emotional spiritual awakening because of mushrooms and saw the world in a whole new light , I took mushrooms and just had a fun time because that was already my world view

[@DollfaceLizkah]

Yikes sounds like you deserve better

[@Fairy_Teeth]

@@DollfaceLizkah what ? Why do you say that he’s literally one of the most kind , genuine and empathetic people I’ve ever met. He’s a feminist, he not only respects my pro nouns he helps make sure other people respect them because I’m to passive to speak up when people misgender me. He’d drop anything if I said I need him or his help. He’s my life partner who I know will never let me down or let me suffer alone. He’s an amazing friend and an amazingly kind person. I don’t appreciate you assuming something when you have absolutely 0 information. He has a traumatic abusive childhood that affected his on the world and people as most who were abused and neglected tend to. All mushrooms did was show him that he matter to the universe and the world was full of love. He was never a bad person he was a broken depressed person left to struggle on his own. I’d appreciate if you took you extremely misguided judgement else where , I don’t take kindly to people assuming the worst of the best person I’ve ever met especially when that know Jack shit about him. Please be less ignorant

[@Fairy_Teeth]

@@DollfaceLizkah sorry but nothing has ever made me this mad before, don’t attack the man I want to marry and the man that loves me if you’ve never met him and have barely anything to go off of

[@eveandaedrul]

Lol yikes girlie...

[@Fairy_Teeth]

@@eveandaedrul sorry I just really love my boyfriend he’s literally my soulmate in the idea of people misinterpreting some thing I said that wrongly in that negatively really bothered me. It was just such a bold accusation off of the first comment without even knowing enough of the backstory and not understand what I meant with it. I was more making a reference, talking about how it’s kind of similar to something they said. How somebody who went through a lot of shit in their life, who made them angry at the world for a while had a trip realize the world was an out to get them, and that they still were loved and then they were realize that their whole mission in life was to put love and goodness and to the world so that’s what he does because it helped him with his trauma. It’s not always they lack empathy. Sometimes it’s they’ve been through a lot of stuff, so they got kinda messed up and repressed. Once you realize the world isn’t just a place is full of bad stuff in mean people and hate but it’s actually a good place full of love and life in a mix of chaos and harmony it’s a lot easier to actually understand how much love there is in the world so you can actually give it back. I was making or not, and it just kind of made me upset that someone would assume somethings so negative about the person. I love so dearly, especially seeing that he is truly one of the kindest most loving people I’ve ever met. I am really bad autism that most people have never been able to put up with in the patient with, but even when I’m having a full meltdown, he’s able to sit there and hold me and talk to me in the most patient and loving tone. I just think the Internet is getting too quick to assume when it comes to things and it bothers me. I hope that makes more sense.

[@SanjaSleipnir]

You’re spoiling us and I love it

[@Temaile]

I'm currently on extended sick leave from work because of depression and chronic pain rehab, and discovering and binging your content is by far the best thing that has happened in the last three weeks (next to the concert I saw last night). Thanks❤

[@nostradamus1162]

did you watch her demolishing the house of night series? my fav

[@Temaile]

@@nostradamus1162 Not yet! But I expect sadly I will be home for quite a bit longer still, so I look forward to going through all the content.

[@spicoli_1117]

Whenever Ive gone to Barnes and Noble (a boo store, idk if they have them outside america.) recently, all I see on the display tables are Colleen Hoover books.

[@shineonsunfish]

I feel like this is very clearly a horror/feminist criticism Lolita-style… except the villain being a mentally disturbed woman “obsessed with social media” instead of this horrible man is so clearly middle aged woman brand misogyny. Too bad, it’s actually a great concept if the point is that he’s “falling out of love” with her because he’s actually getting to know her and seeing her deal with real trauma that happened to he BECAUSE OF HIM, so she’s “not fun anymore.”

[@Alresu]

The most frustrating about this: There is an interesting story in there. A competent writer could make quite a good book out of it.

[@victor-kafka]

Technically, a really good writer can make an enjoyable book out of any story.

[@Alresu]

@@victor-kafka True. What I meant was though, that it'd only take a somewhat competent writer, not even a good one, to make it okay.^^

[@GabyBS204]

Lol this audio narration with commentary is freaking gold! Just what I need to listen to while I'm working😂

[@mido3046]

'it's no Helena by MCR is it?' LMFAOOOOO

[@rebekahdrummond2818]

I hate to say it but this is the most interesting colleen hoover book i’ve heard of. I don’t think it’s good but it’s more intriguing than plain old abusive men, now it’s abusive men with ghosts!!