Exploring the Insane World of Colleen Hoover (Part 3)

[@caseyaonso4270]

yall im hearing theres a bonus chapter??? my copy didnt have it im so annoyed 😭 apparently (im going off what ppl have commented until i can figure out where to read it lol) it ends with jeremy getting exposed tho like ok touché miss coho touché….

[@Ashbrash1998]

It's on reddit in two parts

[@necronival]

Someone posted the whole thing on their insta story which was an EXPERIENCE for me to read 💀

[@Taylorswiftsleftarm13]

Girl, I just have to let you know, I was genuinely tweaking hearing that end. I need to discuss this with my therapist 😭

[@Kermitt_thee_frog23]

Someone posted the chapter on reddit. I wish I could unread it bc it's was so unnecessary.

[@katie-allen]

You should definitely read Rebecca!! One of my favorite books of all time. It has all the nuance and depth and moral ambiguity that you were hoping Verity would have. And Daphne du Maurier’s prose is so eloquent and a real pleasure to read. The audiobook narrated by Anna Massey is also excellent.

[@b8376]

back when i knew nothing about colleen, i saw a tiktok claiming that verity was a really good psychological thriller. i went to a book shop the next day but it wasn’t in stock. the universe was protecting me🙏🙏

[@PoppyOxymoron]

Omg I’ve heard that too!!!

[@gracebooth1472]

i think i saw the same tiktok cause i bought it for that reason 😭 but i never read it

[@b8376]

@@gracebooth1472 the universe also had your back😭

[@Maiasgameroom]

The book is bad

[@sakareeh]

“There are no accidents” - “Master Oogway”

[@magventures]

i heard “not her aunt, an aunt,” and i thought, ‘ya that’s weird, just talking about someone else’s aunt with no context,’ and then actual ant footage popped up on the screen and i loooosssstt it

[@OxyMauron]

That was my thought process too.

[@PistachioGold]

Saaameee 😂😂😂

[@penidk]

😂😂😂

[@GlitteredGoose]

Same

[@quenepacrossing4675]

Same 😂

[@elliananan638]

colleen hoover spent more effort describing AN ANT in this book than she spent writing any of her romance dynamics

[@malg8514]

What gets me is the fact that she even messed that up. Almost every ant you see is a female and yet Colleen kept referring to it as a he- lol

[@lisalolz-dgaf5860]

@@malg8514 oh god 😭 when she said "he" the first thing I thought of is that she should've said "it" instead since it's not even her pet, coupled with this??? coho is truly the gift that keeps on giving

[@emuanon34]

@@malg8514 Does this mean that Flick from A Bugs Life is trans masc?

[@cocopuff-muncher]

it’s giving thanksgiving dinner

[@abigailg6586]

New fear unlocked… The mental image of seeing fuzzy baby monitor footage of a person who is supposed to be in a coma scrambling around is fucking terrifying. I’ll give her that

[@starilee3811]

that was a jump scare for me too!

[@sophiedegoey20]

Ok but with no context aside from this video I assumed that the plot twist was that JEREMY wrote the manuscript and planted it, that he was the real killer, and that he'd try to use the book to paint himself as the victim. The way it praises him for literally everything seemed like something a narcissistic abuser would write about themselves. So pissed that the real twist still rewarded Jeremy despite his behaviour ugh

[@g00chi]

I thought the same thing. Unfortunately that would've made too much sense.

[@sh0shkabob]

THANK YOUUUU I thought this was the twist as I was reading it as well! I really thought it made more sense than the actual ending tbh. Like I thought the fact that Verity was supposed to be good at writing antagonists would make Lowen be like “oh it’s bc she actually DOES think like this!” It makes zero sense that in order to display her writing prowess, she fully writes an autobiography like that

[@AnonYmous-en7op]

Oh that would have been a legitimately good twist.

[@cosas_de_gatos]

Casey even mentioned that the intimate scenes sounded like they were written by a man 👀

[@barbararab6390]

Yeah, I mean, the way the autobiography acts like Jeremy is god's gift and ceo of sex just makes me think he wrote that

[@BlancMint]

So what’s with her insistence that women who don’t want kids, who May struggle mentally, are like clinically insane?? She used to be a social worker no? Im scared

[@youruncleolaf4694]

she used to be a WHAT

[@avshields6235]

@@youruncleolaf4694Colleen Hoover used to be a social worker. I know a few bad ones because I work in behavioral health but none of them have written any smutty books as far as I know lol.

[@justlola417]

She did???? Oh that's terrifying

[@kiara23422]

This is what my parents think when I say I really don't want children

[@Ashbrash1998]

I feel like this book would have been ao much better if she had just made Lowen the villan. Like she was so obsessed with Jeremy and wanting to take over Verity's life to the point she was trying to convince herself that she wasn't actually disabled and was a monster. It would have certainly added a sense of irony for the bonus epilogue chapter, where Lowen thinks she's got it all but realized that she just made her prison. Just imagine if the diary was actually a rewritten version of Verity's writing alluding her abuse by Jeremy that destroyed her mental health and made her post partum worst. As well as explain Crew's behavior being related to the trauma he was enduring.

[@caseyaonso4270]

is there a link to the bonus chapter?? my copy doesnt have one in it this is the first im hearing of it 😭😭

[@Luciferith]

To me she's also the villain, the whole time while i was reading it i was thinking ''she's just as bad as Verity'', and she doesnt even realize this, and apparently neither does Colleen Hoover. and actually i even think the father sucks too, he's terrible, literally everyone in this book is horrible but apparently Lowen and the father are supposed to be the good guys?? Ok, Colleen. Also, Crew is the worst name i've ever heard in my life, of all the traumas this kid experienced and its going to experience by being raised by Lowen and the dumbass father that i can't even remember the name, this was the worst.

[@lackofcreativity9883]

Funny how Verity is an author who writes stories with antagonists as main characters and Colleen doesn't take the chance to do the same with Lowen

[@oliviahilton2770]

This is almost the plot of The Housemaid which is so similar to Verity anyway

[@statesofgracie]

oh gosh I don’t remember the first two parts but we never skip a casey video so here we are

[@katie-allen]

Same I was like okay wait did I ever watch the others? Should I watch those first? Then I checked and I did, I guess I just blocked the horror of that information from my brain. So anyway, time to settle into watching part 3 🥰

[@rolanslide8509]

I will never, and I mean never, get over the fact that Colleen made the catalyst of her meetcute a deadly car accident. "His eyes are chartreuse ☺" girl you just saw a mans head explode under the tire of a car.

[@louschwick7301]

holy crud, i completely forgot that in the midst of all the insane crap in this book. and what the hell did it have to do w literally anything else in this godawful story

[@jamesgames9804]

for anyone interested in the book of the month promo - important fine print: “As part of your $5 enrollment offer, you acknowledge that you cannot cancel until after you are renewed at least once” - renewal costs 16.99

[@sugasnaps]

I feel like that was important to mention... thank you

[@JassenValentinovNede]

And on that note, I just realized the words "We both laugh at our son's big balls" are permanently imprinted on my frontal cortex. ❤

[@zodiac.alien.]

Something that really pissed me off, is how Verity is going through postpartum depression and it's just written as something that a"evil" women would do. Let's think about it, Verity had these kids that she didn't want to have (and tried to abort HERSELF) only to get left at the house all day with them, by herself, with no help. Like parents are already stressed when it comes to having their first child, she had two AND her husband wasn't even around and expected her to be able to do everything by herself, with (and I can't stress this enough) NO HELP! My heart goes out to anyone that is a Verity situation (or similar), like I can't even coho because What.The.Hell was this

[@EspiritoDeDafne]

He is also so judgmental when she says she doesnt want to breastfeed the babies and basically guilt trip her into doing it

[@reix7494]

you’re so right, it pisses me off too

[@justlola417]

While she was reading this part I couldn't help but feel sympathy towards Verity like? Jeremy seemed to be her whole life, to the point she felt hollow when he traveled, so she probably didn't have ANY support system around her, nobody to tell her he's an asshole

[@tyler-df3wy]

The overt ableism in this book always infuriates me. Like Lowen is just constantly making herself scared of a disabled woman, doubting her disability, and hating on her and we’re supposed to like her. And she turns out to be right! If someone said even a fraction of those things about my disabled mum, I would actually be in prison

[@Ashbrash1998]

I feel like it would have been even better if like Lowen was totally wrong about it all. That she actually was disabled and Lowen had just killed her or set it all up. Making it very obvious that Lowen is the villan in the story

[@tyler-df3wy]

@@Ashbrash1998literally! It’s supposed to be a thriller/mystery but the twist is so weak. How’s it a surprise that Verity was lying about her injuries when Lowen has been convinced of it pretty much from the moment she met her

[@thoopsy]

Hi! I just got here, this is the first time I've heard the plot of this book. THIS is the good one?! The one where a woman is murdered under the pretenses that she has a disability and it was "an accident." 1 billion red flags from just the snippets here, thinking a disability is a good punishment makes you a bad person, Lowen. Also, murdered Autism rep is basically my least favorite kind. You DO NOT taunt people with mobility conditions to try and see if they're "faking." That's messed up. You are an irredeemable protagonist. Let's explode Colleen Hoover's typewriter. Together.

[@tyler-df3wy]

@@thoopsy this isn’t even the only book of hers that ends with a disabled woman turning out to Not Actually Be Disabled and being murdered by her cheating partner because she’s evil Spoilers but her book Layla is about a woman who has brain damage after being shot, but it turns out she’s actually being possessed the woman who shot her. The other woman, Sable, is vilified for having an eating disorder and other mental illnesses, and the real Layla is actually still really happy and quirky and completely unaffected by being literally shot in the head. It ends with the main character drowning Sable so Layla can repossess her body, and of course he’s completely excused by the narrative. It’s actually horrifying and not for the reasons CoHo wants it to be

[@moonstone___]

@@tyler-df3wyyou left out the best part, that BEFORE the boyfriend knows the ghost possessing her is his real girlfriend, he has a full blown affair with the ghost including non consensual use of the body.

[@funtime15u]

Like said before the other books without context is "He's a creep, and she's in heat."

[@obrien92]

i love that colleen hoover just names her characters ANYTHING

[@khushbooprasad6519]

Makes me happy as a writer because if she can getaway with it, so can I hope to

[@whatalsaid]

I was confused why Casey didn’t know what Steak & Shake was, but then I remembered that she’s Canadian, and also Steak & Shake is VERY much a midwestern thing.

[@m.josena4485]

Sometimes I forget not everyone is from thr Midwest haha😭

[@leeh4669]

I’m from California and I don’t know what Steak & Shake is 😭

[@whatalsaid]

@@leeh4669 it’s ok. The first time I visited California to see some cousins, they asked me if I wanted In & Out and I said “in and out of what?”

[@GeographyPal]

@@whatalsaidgenuinely made me cackle

[@iciecube]

i thought steak and steak was everywhere

[@userabby17]

The craziest thing about fans of colleen hoover's books is HOW I repeat, HOW did you miss all these obviously terribly things in her books. Verity for example, our main couple are literally having an AFFAIR, the guy is cheating on his wife who is in a coma. And the worst thing is, I think no one cared because Verity is supposed to be the villain, and is disabled which says so much about coho fans, which also makes sense I guess. Even lines in the book you may forget later on sure, but in the moment how the heck do you read "I've never wanted to use physical force on a girl before but I want to hold her down and keep her there until the cab drives away" (in Nov 9) and not even slightly question it???

[@levilore_7126]

ive seen people recommend her books and was considering reading it ends with us a while back but when i watched this series i was like HOW her writing is SO bad and like the sex scenes are all the same and the relationships are just abuse. like i love romance books, i read smut books, and there are so many actually good books that arent just abusive relationships that tell people "oh ya this is a good relationship and they love each other" like WHAT

[@mittag983]

​@ville__Now copy my comment

[@rashelreyes1880]

I’m pretty sure I’m supposed to be Colleen Hoover’s target audience, a Teen-Young adult (I’m currently in high school) over the summer of last year I tried to read “All your perfects” (the only reason I chose this book was because it was purple and I just love purple 😭 plus I needed a purple book to fit the color coded aesthetic I had going for my book shelf) I just couldn’t do it, by the time we got to the part where the main male character and the main female character forgive eachother after reading those long long long letters I just gave up. I’m sorry did he literally not cheat on his wife? Like she was having fertility issues or something like that no? Like he just cheated on his wife who was like kinda breaking down and after reading a few pretty words written YEARS ago all is fine and dandy? 💀 ummm…yeah it was so frustrating that no one throughout this whole book (well most of it anyway gave up pretty much almost at the end) opened their mouths and tried to y’know communicate. It’s so interesting how Colleen has such a huge fan base and so much popularity, I guess I understand why to a certain extent but her books just honestly read like published wattpad books and I’m fully convinced these books that are liked by people who are not teens/young adults just never had a wattpad era and this is them pretending they are so much more sophisticated just because the book is physically published lol. It’s a bit concerning that girls my age read these kinds of books and I say this because I’ve physically seen girls around my school carrying “It ends with us” and “Ugly Love” and reading it IN CLASS, it just does not give me a good feeling that they are consuming books like It ends with us and think that what’s happening to the characters is ok

[@wolfwatch9731]

i will never get over the fact that lowen is super unsettled and convinced of verity's evil nature before she even reads about her hurting her children - like, verity is going through actual real life symptoms of pre and post partum depression severe enough that she self harms to try to induce a miscarriage, and that, on its own, before anything else, is meant to be taken as evidence of verity's sick and twisted true nature. colleen hoover gives off such strong prolife vibes its unreal. not to mention the shit lowen (and the other characters) think and say about a chronically ill disabled woman before ANYTHING happens

[@Ashbrash1998]

And Lowen is supposed to be the good person on the book. I almost wish the book had made Lowen the true villan trying to take over Verity's life.

[@wolfwatch9731]

@@Ashbrash1998 and its like, colleen just going all in and making a villain protagonist would have been an actual engaging turn, way more than the twist of "this mentally ill woman was evil and also faking being disabled"

[@Ashbrash1998]

​@wolf-gh2dz It would have been mire interesting and make it stand alone from the Rebecca comparisons too. And if you add the extra chapter, even better. Lowen basicslly took over Verity's life and realized that she just made her own prison.

[@gabbie5950]

the prolife vibes EXACTLY.

[@FrumiousMing8]

Lowen also reads in the manuscript that Verity became convinced one of her toddlers was conspiring to kill the other one. That is like a full-on delusion, not something someone in their right mind would think. And yet Lowen is like "Verity...evil!" Like Lowen please, this woman was clearly mentally ill, why you acting like she's a mustache twirling cartoon villain???

[@bunny_koo]

“If we’re coming up with nicknames than his name is Jerm now because he’s a disease” i died 😂😂😂

[@itsgiobaby]

This book would’ve been 50% more redeemable if the end was just Lowen realizing she was stuck with this dangerous man she actually didn’t know at all and implied she’d go down the same path Verity first went through with him 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@FrumiousMing8]

There's an interview clip with Colleen where she says she left it intentionally vague for the reader to decide if Verity was lying in the manuscript or not but then went onto say that in her mind Verity is evil. Which is sad to me. Manuscript Verity is obviously unwell. She's clearly not her right mind (having the delusion that her baby wants to kill her other baby) and yet she's treated like a full-stop villian. It's baffling to me.

[@nospoonfulofmayonnaiseforme]

ikr she needs medical HELP not to be killed??? she's like paranoid n stuff

[@marymccomish]

right at the beginning of the video i was wondering why the plot sounded so familiar and then it hit me ... i read a one direction fanfic on AO3 with the exact same plot

[@rachael5025]

which one was the wife in the coma

[@marymccomish]

@@rachael5025 I’m pretty sure she was just a random woman in the fic lol

[@lawlesslucyliu]

Someone else commented about this, so sorry they tricked y’all

[@snailcorn7480]

OMFG YOU TOO!!!! oh my god i’m so happy someone shares my pain

[@marymccomish]

@@snailcorn7480 I tried to find it after watching this video but it’s either hard to find or was deleted 😢

[@BlackFiresong]

The part where Lowen goes from being horrified by the content of the manuscript to stealing one of Jeremy's shirts was so jarring.

[@rachellopez609]

the fucking picture of the sitting horse was TAKING ME OUT😭

[@ilovetaylor2169]

wtf…..I 100% believe Verity. She deserved better. Colleen Hoover try to disguise your internalised misogyny while writing challenge: level-impossible No but seriously, why does all her books involve the male protagonist cheating on their current partner…..it’s very weird.

[@Futurebound_jpg]

Its a fetish that insecure women have. They like to “steal” taken men away from their partners because its “proves” that they are better than someone else, that they are worthy of love, of being a first choice, etc. Truth is, a man who’d cheat would probably cheat with anyone lol. Theyre not special bc someone left their gf to get with them. Its a really negative coping mechanism for bad insecurity

[@calebhamlett]

casey it’s 10:45pm rn i can’t do this… (i’m doing this)

[@caseyaonso4270]

iM SO SORRY 😭😭😭😭

[@oneinathousand2156]

“Kinky Goldilocks” killed me lol

[@tyler-df3wy]

My best friend’s a huge fan of Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier and I told her that Verity is basically a Rebecca ripoff and she got so pissed that she got Verity and read it all in a day She’s stronger than I could ever be

[@thatcher6923]

It’s funny because if Colleen is on the side of the protagonists… then she missed the point of Rebecca. We’re supposed to find the fact that Maxim gets away with cold blooded murder because of his class status awful. The protagonist is meant to represent how subservience in marriage will result in unhappiness and crossed moral boundaries. It’s a book about repression and the masks of high society. It wasn’t even written as a romance lol. The protagonist is basically treated like a dog by her husband (something that is actively pointed out by the book).

[@ghostrobots]

what's rebecca about?

[@sylviacorvalan7716]

@@ghostrobots It’s about the marriage of a young woman with an older widower and how she’s insecure about living on the dead wife’s (Rebecca) shadow. It’s really good!

[@alimiller3976]

[!!SPOILERS!!] This book is crazy. At first i was like, "Wow, maybe this will actually say something poignant about post-partum depression and women feeling obligated to have children." and then they just... murder Verity in the end. And her obvious mental health crisis is never brought up. But i guess Colleen has already outed herself as anti-therapy sooooo Sidenote: No way people are gonna look at how many "accidental" deaths happen in this family and believe theyre actually accidental.

[@SilentProti]

I watched quite a few videos about this book and now I'm confused, I understood irl Verity was actually happy to be a mother, the depression in the manuscript was part of the exercise. But Jeremy did accuse her that she told Crew to hold his breath, so she did kill harper? Or was that actually a misunderstanding and she just failed to save harper, idk anymore

[@sopranoshelley]

@@SilentProti I think they explain it as she did tell Crew to hold his breath but the boat was already capsizing and Verity held immense guilt over only being able to save Crew and not Harper.

[@momomorton647]

Pause. In the diary she whispers to Crew to hold his breath and Jeremy confronts her about it later. Wouldn't Jeremy know that that confrontation between them never happened?? Also her first words out of the fake coma should have been "the manuscript is not a diary, it's a writing exercise." She had enough time to think about it

[@tulip135]

let's collectively take a moment to thank casey for these videos because I wouldn't be caught dead reading a colleen hoover book but god damn am I curious

[@gwyn2151]

Same. I love theses videos.

[@karenthomas1456]

I actually have Verity in my audible list. I’m not reading it after watching this. I’d much rather watch these reviews than read any of her books.

[@mahekshah2175]

upon second read, i realised that most parts in verity were just there for shock value. Just to get one gasp out of the reader to keep them hooked until the next gasp, like u said, this book have no reprecussions whatsoever of the events that followed after a major event

[@alwayscommenting56]

upon SECOND read??? i deleted that book out of my audible the second i finished it 😭😭would never have the energy to do a reread

[@mahekshah2175]

​@@alwayscommenting56 i read that book as a teenager, so yes I registered some of those shock values as- "wow this is so clever" so when i read that again in the same faith u can imagine what happened next

[@alwayssmiling32]

how is her watching someone get run over by a car relevant to the rest of the story? that is such an insane way to start the book! like she could've just spilt coffee on herself or something lol

[@zuhoist]

the tyler oakley reaction video dkjfkd

[@haranodo]

i work part-time at a bookstore and one of my (ex)coworkers told me verity was a serious, great psychological thriller. trusting his words, i recommended it to everyone who asked me for a thriller. needless to say, after i realized how it actually was, i felt i deserved to be fired

[@AnonYmous-en7op]

No but I don't know how people recommend the novel seriously - its just pr0n ????

[@mewmew6158]

​@@AnonYmous-en7opif you just wanted smut with an eh plot around it, then it IS an ok recommendation. Saying it's a good thriller is laughable.

[@777aether]

i know its a minor part of a video but anyways; chartreuse is kind of like a lighter olive green. its actually a kind of alcohol. but either way he either has radioactive green eyes or dooky eyes so thats fun

[@eureka7876]

Why couldn’t it just say green? Ugh, I hate when writers write color like that, in an effort to sound deep. ✨Chartreuse✨Respectfully, f off. Why do I have to google the color🙄?

[@eureka7876]

Why couldn’t it just say green? Ugh, I hate when writers write color like that, in an effort to sound deep. ✨Chartreuse✨Respectfully, f off. Why do I have to google the color🙄?

[@eureka7876]

Why couldn’t it just say green? Ugh, I hate when writers write color like that, in an effort to sound deep. ✨Chartreuse✨Respectfully, f off. Why do I have to google the color🙄?

[@tanyatokareva1873]

Chartreuse as an eye colour really acts as the first warning sign for the kind of book you would be getting into, because out of all green/yellow shades how is that the one you go for

[@lance.7124]

... please i cannot be the only one who is aggressively disturbed with this whole concept. two mentally deranged people killed an innocent woman just because she created a realistic meta-ish method writing. like out of all of the books she ever wrote, this disturbed me the most. it's disgusting.

[@gwyn2151]

Also the fact that they are actively the most ableist people ever.

[@tttgggccc]

It's very dark, yeah. but what gets me that it sounds like Lowen and jeremy are never written AS deranged and disgusting, not on purpose. Hoover tried to make them the good guys who made a mistake. if she wrote Lowen as specifically a morraly bankrupt or at least morrally grey woman then it would feel way more purposeful. jeremy should not be congratulated by the narrative and Lowens actions should not be seen as a virtue

[@renu_7890]

I agree

[@lanihood1334]

Idk I’m not bothered

[@awetistic5295]

​@@tttgggccc And the she tried to retcon it with that "epilogue", probably because there were too many negative reactions.

[@thanatoast]

Now I'm just curious to see if the Big Balled Baby will ever be referenced in another book. Like, maybe in the news they talk about the car crashed and the girl who's name I can't remember says something like: "My baby with massive testicles fell into the water ;-; i am so sad :(((((("

[@bunny_koo]

I believe her name was “oh my god, Rachel.” His stepsister but also his girlfriend 💀

[@tiale1994]

Will they make him float?

[@ia490]

​@@tiale1994 STOP 💀

[@sarahpozzuto3530]

i’ve been WAITING for this one, my book club made me read this book and i unfortunately have not been able to forget it

[@thoopsy]

Hi! I'm so sorry.

[@sully888]

Hello, I made a Colleen Hoover bingo, for the next time you read one of her books The colleen hoover bingo: prot lets love interest take advantage of them sexually Love interest is openly aggressive Strange and awkward dialogue Love interest is violent Romanticized sexual assault Love interest threatens violence Love interest has a rough / mysterious past Prot seemingly has a backbone, but chooses not to use it Books ends with a “happy” couple Love interest makes prot cry unhappy tears Cheats, or thinks abt cheating, or show clears asf signs that they’re cheating Love interest is a stalker / has stalked Broken (messy) storyline Character with stupid/strange name overly emotional/dramatic writing Greatly resembles / is comparable to a wattpad story

[@purplelily7764]

Don’t forget someone is pregnant or becomes pregnant. Child somehow acts smarter and dumber than their age. Male love interest has some sort of traumatic backstory that is used to excuse him from his abusive behavior.

[@sully888]

@@purplelily7764 Always the love interest with a traumatic background that makes everything ok 😭

[@trashfire7474]

my fav natural blonde is back

[@caseyaonso4270]

EXACTLY EXACTLY…

[@trashfire7474]

@@caseyaonso4270 rosé is calling…she wants to know your secret

[@nickneime_]

​@@trashfire7474genetics 😌

[@tyler-df3wy]

Feel like Verity should have just hidden the manuscript under the floorboard while he was off meeting Lowen. Probably would have avoided a lot of problems that way

[@dotcom3015]

Casey explains Verity couldn’t find the manuscript

[@tyler-df3wy]

@@dotcom3015 iirc wasn’t it in her office? Coz I mean Lowen found it on her first day at the house so it wasn’t super hidden. She should have had more than enough time to search her office, especially since Jeremy doesn’t go in there a lot so he wouldn’t notice it missing. Plus CoHo says she thinks Verity is evil so she definitely has a motivation to keep the evidence hidden

[@dotcom3015]

@@tyler-df3wy I can’t really explain the characters logic, but at the end of the video Casey describes verity’s letter where she said she was pretending to be immobile until she could find the manuscript and leave

[@tyler-df3wy]

@@dotcom3015 that’s what I mean though, I believe Jeremy was out of town for at least a day when he went to meet Lowen because he had a hotel room and a change of clothes, plus the two of them leave her alone in the house two different times and she locks them in a room for a night. She likely would have known Lowen spends most of her time in her office, and I’m pretty sure she just leaves it in a random drawer so she definitely has time in the story to tear the place apart if she really wanted to find it As always her plots just fall apart when you think critically about them lmao

[@tsoon]

off topic omg your lippie looks so good

[@caseyaonso4270]

thank you!! its the tarte one in honeysuckle 🤭

[@yeoldegeorgemac]

this is just a shitty version of Rebecca for the kind of women who get into fist fights in TJMaxx over Rae Dunn mugs

[@theeleanorshellstrop]

lmao now it’s over pink stanley cups

[@fatimam9975]

What’s the book with Rebecca called

[@goshberyy]

@@fatimam9975the book itself is titled rebecca. it’s by daphne de maurier. verity is a cheap copy of it in my opinion

[@goshberyy]

finally someone said it. i always thought verity is a rip off of rebecca. while the twists in rebecca were actually shocking, verity is just underwhelming.

[@snailcorn7480]

forever traumatized by the time i accidentally read Verity thinking it was gay One Direction fanfic and only realized later that it was Colleen Hoover with the names and pronouns changed

[@amityislandchum]

Wait wait you have to tell us which character each band member was!

[@snailcorn7480]

@@amityislandchum i haven’t been able to find the fic now, but as far as i remember Louis was Lowen, Harry was Jeremy, and Nial was the literary agent boss guy

[@nathaliadesouza8411]

Been incessantly checking this channel for MONTHS waiting for part 3 let's gooooooo

[@emmaclare9066]

I was about to go to bed but now I'm gladly letting Casey ruin my sleep schedule

[@caseyaonso4270]

🤭

[@1800PAlN]

@@caseyaonso4270 problematic fav behavior

[@lauraprior9157]

I can’t stop watching this review video. Everything in there is so golden. The crazy plot? Casey’s witty remarks? The editing job?? JERM?? I love it all. This is one of your biggest hits to me Casey

[@starglaze-]

i love colonizer hoverboard slander 🥰

[@LeilaleilaZ]

Girl I just jumped omfg I love getting new videos from youuu❤

[@GlassChopsticks]

your bangs look amazing in this video i am insanely jealous

[@amityislandchum]

Dude I couldn't stop staring at them! They look so good!

[@shattertheair]

AT THE STEAK ‘N SHAKE?????

[@ladydiamond6611]

*Colleen Hoover Books As Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Songs:* All Your Perfects - We'll Never Have Problems Again It Ends With Us - Sex With A Stranger November 9 - Hello, Nice To Meet You Verity - After Everything You Made Me Do (That You Didn't Ask For) Ugly Love - I Love My Daughter (But Not In A Creepy Way) Without Merit - Maybe She’s Not Such A Heinous Bitch After All

[@amityislandchum]

Holy fuck this is perfect! 😂 (Okay, admittedly I don't know what "Without Merit" is about, because none of the Booktubers I watch have reviewed it yet.)

[@anshisingh6206]

"She may have no yolk, but you have no shame" better worded than the entire book

[@awfulq]

the most disturbing thing in this book fr is the part where lowen bites over the teeth marks in the headboard 😭 girl that was unhinged behavior

[@tanyatokareva1873]

I'm glad you mentioned Rebecca, I was thinking about this book the whole video. Colleen's book is even named after the now-out-of-the-picture wife as well lol

[@mariak5169]

This is kinda weird but i remember watching the first vid in this series at the start of uni this year, and now this is my last week of term😭

[@mia.xoxo.305]

yes, Reneé Rapp is back

[@ianpitzerds]

you NEED to do Hopeless. no one talks about it and that was the one Colleen Hoover book I really loved as a teen. I need someone I trust to talk about it lol it’s as insane as any Colleen Hoover book

[@arishaw8975]

the way i gasped when i saw you posted this, i'm so excited! love this series

[@atomichearts9332]

people who have colleen hoover as their favorite author (ahem my mother in law) freak me out BADDD… like i love hearing about her stuff but i can’t imagine reading it, let alone reading and thinking “omg i love this romance!”

[@wiktoriaostrowska3201]

I was just watching your previous videos about there books the night before and now it’s morning in Poland and u uploaded a new one. Life is good

[@Lytarium]

Love the fact that CoHo fans are like "omg, which side do you choose? the manuscript or the letter", girl both of them don't even make sense!!!

[@ximenarodriguez1154]

This is gonna be so random, but you've been helping me with my English for the past few months. You speak so fast I've made trying to understand everything you say my goal 😅 And I also love your videos. I'll wait for the last part

[@chloebrunsdon6964]

girl I have been WAITING for this video to come out

[@leticiasales7240]

dying for part 4

[@hil619]

You’re the only way I can stomach those book. Loving this book series! Thank you for powering through!

[@purplelily7764]

Your commentary on these books is literally so entertaining I’m very glad you are making a part 4 as well ❤

[@loraelizabeth7580]

Better twist idea: Jeremy killed the daughter and wrote the manuscript (revealing that he was the one who actually hated the daughter) to frame Verity. Then you have added suspense at the end that Lowen is stuck with this psychopath. Or in the bonus epilogue he mysteriously dies as well.

[@papayamh]

oh i was WAITING for this one

[@heljay4956]

"We used to go out to eat all the time before my sisters died." This is probably the most telling thing to me about how little Coho seems to think anything through in her work-- Crew doesn't seem to have any hangups or grief over his big sisters, no thoughts of his own, it's not even clear whose side he's on. He tells Lowen that "Mommy said not to do x" but also facilitates many of the "romantic" development scenes in the book; nevermind whether or not Crew is or isn't smart enough yet to maybe keep his mouth shut when Mommy's trying not to get caught out faking a coma? Even if he isn't, he's otherwise way too accepting of Lowen and her relationship with his dad. At five years old, he's not a person to Coho-- he's a plot device, used to express just how Gosh Darn Great certain characters are/aren't, and more importantly neither he nor his sisters are spoken of as if they're Verity's children. She birthed the damn kids! But they're exclusively treated as *Jeremy's* seeds, *his* demonstration of how wonderful he is. Also, for supposedly being such great parents, apparently none of the adults in his life have learned to keep him away from knives when he constantly hurts himself playing with them. Apparently the minimum threshold for good parenting in the mind of Coho is "the child is still alive and has not been murdered by Me [the parent], specifically". I know the bonus chapter reveals Jeremy's just a serial killer anyway, but that does *not* absolve the probably-secretly-otherwise-innocent Verity, nor our ableist protagonist Lowen. Side note, I love how every person who looks at these books always finds something new to say about the wild stupid bullshit in Coho's work, even if they pick out a few of the same passages.

[@GabrielaReyes-gr2qb]

ILY Im just doing a super long assignament and needed thiiiiiiiiis sm

[@caseyaonso4270]

good luck!!! 🫶🏻

[@asparkof-light]

The way I was thinking about Verity today omg queen OWA OWA

[@caseyaonso4270]

OWA OWAAAAAAAAA

[@sharondobbin9622]

4:14 "why is she talking about the ant like she's gonna get freaky with it" GOODBYE THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING 😭

[@ellegarrels2317]

yessss i actually want u to do ALL of her books😭😁 i js love the way u explain them so i don’t have to read them myself😀 but also ur opinions make it better

[@ariathai9107]

the queen’s back!!

[@lilybeck3285]

Loving your return to your BookTok roots bestie 🔥 🔥 🔥

[@TechSav18]

I love this series from you ☺️💜✨

[@brendanowicki3821]

It’s like a bad version of Rebecca with a bit of Jane Eyre thrown in for good measure

[@benadrylcucumbersnatch9401]

Can I just say, as an autistic person, that the way Harper was written was super fucking insulting

[@bunig000]

yes!! thank you

[@slutfortttt]

And the way collen made it a point to repeatedly call it asbergers instead of autism

[@usernamename12345]

The shock I felt when you said what’s a Steak ‘n Shake 😭

[@ladybirdg5658]

It says so much about coho fans that THIS book is the universally hated one. This is like the only book I've heard summarized/reviewed that was batshit enough that it circled back around to being entertaining. Most of her books are just boring tbh, but this one is INSANE

[@robynbrown1154]

I must’ve been manifesting this bc i watched ur other ones yesterday and was praying we’d get a continuation

[@wawaicedcoffee]

Casey we’re both the same age and grew up on tumblr so I KNEW you were gonna reference “okay? okay.” after the “alright, alright” quotes 😂 as you should

[@Jazlovesgarlicbread]

I love watching these so much because it's like an audiobook but for people with a short attention span

[@halethaden]

16:52 your video choices always send me GIRL HELP 😭

[@aban-09]

if you haven't already, you should read the bonus chapter for Verity! it def makes people switch to team letter...

[@eventually687]

Where can I read it? I thought it was the chapter with the letter under the floor?

[@aban-09]

@@eventually687 i found it online. i think someone on reddit also posted it.

[@slutfortttt]

@@eventually687someone on Reddit uploaded the full chapter in two parts

[@anastasiamademli5296]

Well, I know that you won't read this because it's been over a month since you posted the video but I just wanted to thank you. I went on holiday with a bunch of horrible people, only because I really wanted to visit Naples and non of my other friends had the money to come, and I had an awful time there. The only thing that kept me sane that whole week were your videos ( especially the one's on Colleen). Every night at 3am, when everyone else went to sleep, I would put one of your videos on so that I can laugh and finally feel relaxed. Thank you❤❤

[@g00chi]

I'm scared of how often children seem to get hurt/die in Colleen's books and they characters are just so unaffected or worse, horny?? I really hope she's not a mom irl.

[@realestsienna]

yeah she is 😭😭 her own son had sa allegations & she dismissed the girls who called him out and made them seem like liars so… there’s that

[@annegrey3780]

As someone who *has* read Rebecca, but has not read any Colleen Hoover, can confirm that as you were describing the plot my first thought was "this sounds like a poor man's Rebecca." Colleen Hoover literally just read Rebecca and was like "what if we did this again...but worse." Rebecca is...ok. I feel like it's one of those books that probably made a much bigger impact on readers back in the day than it does today....in fact when it was adapted into a movie they literally were not allowed to depict the actual plot of the book under the Hayes Code, so it literally did depict a level of moral complexity you didn't see (on film at least). But I feel like it started or at least popularized a lot of tropes that now have become so common that you sort of see it coming....for a thriller that makes it a little hard to appreciate.

[@MinnieMay9]

I love this series. I'm so much more interested in you telling me about her books than to read them myself.

[@TTMAL]

BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE!!

[@powthekicker8765]

I know people who are CoHo superfans. Of course, they encouraged me to pick-up her books, and somehow, they never piqued my interest. Then I stumble across your wonderful treatises on her works. Thank you, Casey. I shall remain calm and cozy in the literary fiction aisle.

[@joelledelisle6704]

Casey I have checked like once a week to see if you've posted the third part of this series. Glad to hear it's not over yet :)

[@Joyous0]

okay so now I get why lowen asked crew "wdym mommy's knife?", because verity kept it with her incase jeremy attempts to hurt her. i actually believe verity and feel bad for her

[@aaaaaaaaaa7078]

I’ve seen way too many videos about this godforsaken book and yet you still managed to make it super new, funny, and entertaining :) love u casey, keep up the good content

[@hayleighFry]

I will never read these books, but you make me cackle laugh through these videos. The best way to experience them.

[@Yourmusedm3]

The book has an extra chapter in collectors edition where jeremy kills a neighbour lady just because she identified jeremy and lowen at a beach . And covered up the death and convinced lowen that whatever he did it was all for them as a whole family . He moves on without any guilt .

[@aki-tq8dl]

I need more videos of you talking about books, its like self care