I Read Colleen Hoover's LOWEST RATED Books

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[@DannyisdeadBLEH]

Epic

[@strawburri420]

get that bag sis

[@Neoncaffine9915]

periodddd

[@BlueKirbyplayer00]

Hiiii Nikki :D!!!

[@irem.s9060]

@@BlueKirbyplayer00hhh HR g😮u D.C. @

[@mythcat1273]

Any author who writes a scene where two parents laugh at their newborn child's balls should be put on some sort of list

[@1WEareBUFO1]

They say you write what you know 🤔

[@mahimeghan]

I’m like 5 minutes into the video i am afraid

[@d.olluwu]

after she read that part out loud i had to pause the video and physically walk away from my laptop LMAO

[@Maria-wi1pj]

I'm pretty sure there aren't many author who do this (luckily)

[@greywalker505]

Yep. But instead, their son gets written into the Death Note.

[@melodygon]

The booktok section in book stores are worse than the ninth circle of hell

[@gamertrask9153]

Nah it’s just the 10th Circle

[@Taemtiddies]

Legit. There was one book I found on tiktok that i actually enjoyed 💀

[@aw7145]

As a bookseller, you are right

[@mh-rb8mk]

@@gamertrask9153well wouldn’t that technically be the same thing

[@gamertrask9153]

@@mh-rb8mk No! But yea.

[@rolanslide8509]

The fact that the cover of Ugly Love is water because the love interests newborn son drowned 💀💀💀 girl

[@Elloitslimegoat]

WHAT

[@spaghetto9836]

ONLY COLLEEN HOOVER TO MAKE ME LAUGH AT CHILD DEATH-

[@noni7442]

BYE

[@Mikrokosmoslvr]

My mom has that book idk if she liked it or read it tho

[@qimori8094]

this is the same with verity too, the cover is a girl covered in fishing nets because a twelve year old drowned having been tangled up in them. ;-; coho why are you making these choices 😭

[@Bansh33Gutz]

Collen Hoover being ok with incest but not someone having an abortion or a same sex relationship genuinely made me laugh

[@enchaentaed]

that checks

[@lllchildmoon9831]

Fr

[@buffalowig]

mornonism things.

[@252PurpleSnakes]

“i can excuse incest but i draw the line at homosexuality” -Collen Hoover, probably

[@riu7807]

​@@buffalowiglmfaoooo

[@youyeedyourlasthaw]

Colleen being right under Stephen King makes me so angry tbh. She doesn't deserve that smh. There are so many obscure authors who write art compared to her work.

[@d_alistair-years]

People jump on King for a lot of things, but I think we can all agree King could write Ugly Love but Hoover couldn’t write Shawshank, Misery or The Langoliers

[@Und3ad_Z0mbie]

⁠@@d_alistair-yearshe couldn’t write something that bad

[@Ashtree29]

​@@Und3ad_Z0mbie I mean he probably can and has, he undoubtedly has half finished books that are utter crap

[@N95j]

AGREED!!

[@PoltieBoo]

​@@Und3ad_Z0mbie Anyone can make a truly awful book if they try hard enough lmao

[@milkymoo_]

why does every colleen hoover book sound a story someone would come up with in the sims

[@Thenoobestgirl]

Lollllllll especially if you're CallMeKevin

[@tillssnb]

@@Thenoobestgirlhis would be wayyy worse 😂

[@shiba-inuanimeotaku]

Maybe thats how she comes up with the books! 😭✋

[@ren_okay]

oh someone already said it - at least i wasnt the only one who thought this

[@NearsightedNarhwal]

“I got my step sister pregnant and then the kid drowned” Someone removed the ladder from the pool ig.

[@sneakysnek572]

honestly, colleen really should start writing horror, bc Layla is such a good horror novel premise

[@Feverm00n]

Verity also has a lot of horror potential!

[@asavagegarden]

​@@Feverm00ni read somewhere that verity is a bad version of rebecca by daphne du maurier

[@marleyv9108]

As a person who has sworn to never read a COHO book, Layla actually sounds really interesting

[@mer_acle8101]

yeah i like her premises, they are always interesting on paper but like she should make a prompt generator so better writers can do that stuff

[@frenchgirl5878]

I think she attempted to do that with verity but even with that book, she managed to give me the ick.

[@stellarlune]

“She apologizes to him when he should be apologizing to her” is basically a summary of every single Colleen Hoover book because tell me why the guy love interests are literally able to get away with arson/murder/torture etc. and the girls always say “it’s not ur fault it’s mine” 😭

[@EliseArainai]

I believe KrimsonRogue put it best: Colleen Hoover writes about guys who get the girl when they should get the chair.

[@user-sg4ov7ng4h]

​@@EliseArainailethal line

[@user_28373]

@@user-sg4ov7ng4hvalid line too

[@altounedited3]

Shawty is probably projecting and went through toxic relationships

[@massivel]

@@altounedited3 *abusive

[@ljoanshevchenko5884]

“We both laugh at our son’s big balls.” Proceeds to get into a brutal car accident

[@AmythestAnimations]

“i remember our last moments before my son passed away.. i was talking about his genitalia with my husband”

[@UwUImTheo]

Last words: haha balls big

[@DanialTarki]

Hysterically atrocious

[@darlingkorexo]

Instand Karma

[@isabellalombard-bryan7950]

Like that’s actually WILD.

[@itspizzatimeguys]

Layla actually has a super smart story line, it’s just NOT ROMANTIC. Like that is a great psychological horror plot but there is no way that can be counted as romance

[@princeluffy412]

Agreed. I would find it interesting if it wasn't marketed as romantic.

[@strawberrysyren]

YES!! the whole time i was thinking "this could be so interesting to read if it didnt suck ass" lowkey need someone to rewrite it as psych horror and post it on ao3 or smth

[@tobyandahalf]

@@strawberrysyrenmaybe i should do that in my free time instead of crying in genshin impact domains

[@morbidhime]

​@@tobyandahalfOmg do it, I'd gen love to read a coho book rewritten as what it should be

[@tobyandahalf]

@@morbidhime the problem is i'd have to read the source material

[@angellane1848]

i am begging colleen hoover to transition to writing extreme horror, her fantasies are so nightmarish and disturbing that i really think she would excel at it. in my opinion lmao

[@ronaldreaganhater69]

There's such thing as horror romance too (which often goes well with dark comedy in my experience) change a little bit of Layla to make the main male character sliiiightly less of a dick just so you can enjoy the evil shenanigans, like maybe not have the main character have a relationship with him before she turns into a ghost and then I would love the concept

[@eightcoins4401]

@star_jams4nekos The irony is, if it wasnt likely the authors fantasies, one could do a clive barker type thing with the stories.

[@PoltieBoo]

​@star_jams4nekos Yeah a lot of that book consisted of sex scenes

[@artistesser]

one of her books literaly involves a murder

[@princeluffy412]

She wrote Verity that's a horror/thriller and sorry to say... She Didn't.

[@lovefordanielmatthews]

The fact that “Willow” takes better care of “Layla” than the protagonist who’s supposed to be Layla’s boyfriend

[@sharky9965]

Willlw is Layla … ☠️☠️☠️

[@lovefordanielmatthews]

@@sharky9965 I know, (that’s why I put it in quotation marks) but at this point in the story the protagonist thinks that Layla is herself and not Sable and Willow doesn’t know she’s Layla.

[@ZaF4ran]

LESBIANS🔥 ah wait no that's still a abusive relationship...

[@sayosweeti5757]

@@ZaF4ran toxic yuri /j

[@vividd8246]

@@ZaF4ran we need more sad lesbian relationships guys

[@SullieMae]

The fact that the overarching theme in her books is 'boys will be boys (a.k.a. abusive) and women will like it". AND COLLEEN IS RAISING THREE BOYS....HUH??!!

[@d_alistair-years]

And one of them’s already been accused of assaulting a teenage girl 😬

[@abbie_joan]

​@@d_alistair-yearsoooh yikes on trikes that's not good

[@katzea.a7880]

@@d_alistair-years God fucking dammit

[@gokcebilgin]

​@@d_alistair-yearswell, shit

[@Thenoobestgirl]

​@@d_alistair-yearsis anyone surprised at this point?

[@raymay7712]

colleen hoover really said im okay with incest but i draw the line at abortion

[@salemmarz3809]

community reference

[@landonstrong9686]

”You’re okay with incest?” (Community reference)

[@kschwal]

i mean isn't ðat ðe average conservative

[@DanialTarki]

Nicholas J. Fuentes probably believes this.

[@Yousef-lb4ip]

@@kschwalwe should have kept that letter, it’s so damn useful

[@veyonnix6020]

We dont have any barnes and nobles near us. We traveled over an hour to one and the horror i felt when I opened those doors and staring me in the face was "booktok/spicy booktok." My spirit was burdened instantly

[@Huhuuuu123]

if a colleen hoover book fell onto isaac newton's head he would've discovered mental illness, not gravity

[@taylorhorner2101]

LMFAOOOOO

[@juicydave693]

No girl he would’ve died

[@cvpidd_]

LMAOOO

[@luxluther436]

This is the best insult I’ve ever heard

[@foxbuns]

💀💀💀

[@rx500android]

Colleen Hoover has such a potential to be an amazing horror writer if she would just give up trying to make all her novels “romance”. Like girly, you’re writing about horrors beyond our comprehension, not about cutesy couples

[@Mylittlestcorner]

I mean heck, she could do both. Like have a page at the beginning of the books like "this is dark fantasy kink romance, not a good example of healthy relationships" at minimum. To acknowledge that it's problematic while still writing her stuff

[@SilverlineXZero]

​@@MylittlestcornerCrazy how I've seen some of her fans go to crazy lengths to defend her even when many writers slammed her writing for having actual mistakes and bad editing and literally all her haters want is a disclaimer and her to either take writing classes or stop half-assing stuff.

[@jamienini2665]

@@Mylittlestcornerexactly, i would def have way less of a problem with her books if they were marketed as a toxic relationship fantasy, but trying to sell it as cute or aspirational is just gross, especially considering most of her audience is very young women who will internalize these messages

[@dolphone6748]

Just like Stephanie Meyer really. She was like actually good at horror. Look at the birth scene and the bus full of people getting killed by the vampire mafia

[@ToscaTee]

i would've agreed if only her writing didn't feel amateur level. The sentences and descriptions gives me wattpad vibes...

[@sahelhappenstance8992]

you missed a golden opportunity to call the mom "sicktoria"

[@nikkicarreon]

DAMN IT

[@pink_mushroom____]

@@nikkicarreon 69th like you're welcome

[@alicedodobirb2808]

Yout pfp looks like ​powder from arcane@@nikkicarreon

[@salemmarz3809]

@@alicedodobirb2808for.. having blue hair??? what?? 😭

[@alicedodobirb2808]

@@salemmarz3809 not just bcs of blue hair, it's a similar style hair, add the round pouty(?) face and it being really small on mobile I think it's a justifiable thought to think.

[@sleepyspacegremlin]

This woman who used to be my coworker recommended "Ugly Love" to me. I don't know what I did to deserve that.

[@genocider9782]

It's alright, i got recommended November 9...twice💀

[@80PercentUnreliable]

@@genocider9782 caught my mom currently reading It Ends With Us lol

[@spawnofhell9360]

I'm going to bash in my skull "merit has an identical twin sister, Honor." I did not realize how bad these books were. I just thought it was like twilight level odd, not incest and rampant abuse and weirdly rushed marriages and relationships

[@enviousennui]

Fun fact. She wanted to make a colouring book to go along with It Ends With Us, which would have various scenes for you to colour in. That book is full of abuse, and you tried making it a colouring book??

[@temptressgothicca]

NO WAY WHAT

[@clover2739]

@@temptressgothiccayes! She announced it and then it got got cancelled because of the understandable backlash 😭

[@tobyc8022]

wasnt one of the colouring pages the scene of the girl at the bottom of the stairs after her bf threw her down them?

[@enviousennui]

@@tobyc8022 yeah. You get to colour in her bruises /j

[@Taemtiddies]

​@@enviousennuithat's so unbelievably fucked up

[@crazy3rico25]

I feel like Colleen solves all the problems in these stories by saying “surprise, it wasn’t true so it’s not a problem”. Like “surprise, I never had cancer’, “surprise, it was my own ghost so abusing my body was ok”

[@Gigi0990]

No comments?

[@massivel]

@@Gigi0990 none needed

[@liminalzone]

Honestly surprised November 9 wasn't part of the lowest rated, especially considering she had to edit the book after the first publication which had a graphic SA scene that caused MAJOR backlash.

[@oi2715]

It should be illegal to market any book as romance if one of the leads SA the other and they still end up together at the end😭. For that matter, it should be illegal to market a book as romance when the lead burns the other ones house down, almost kills them, and they still end up together at the end💀.

[@Lemoncakelover678]

And don't get me started on maybe not

[@oi2715]

@@Lemoncakelover678 warren is TERRIFYING. I literally felt like i was reading a horror novel😭. He literally SA her

[@Thenoobestgirl]

And then she went on to write Maybe Not and I don't understand how that one's still on shelves... It literally has SEVERAL sexual assault and rape scenes from the POV of the rapist and he straight up disregards all of the very obvious and verbal signals the girl is giving him that she doesn't want to have sex with him.

[@aiyanari41]

@@ThenoobestgirloMG that sounds horrible 😢😮

[@Chalkanthit]

I find it funny with Layla that it's basically a story the Main told the Detective and he felt that it was super important to include all the descriptive smut they both had together but refuses to talk about the actual important stuff like him and Layla being seemingly shot by his crazy Ex :')

[@luffysupremancy_nojudging6569]

layla actually has the potential to be a psychological horror but ofc it had to be a romance that made no sense .

[@jupiter_jazz]

colleen hoover books are so jam packed with garbage and wild bullshit that if i zone out for even one second, i get so confused at what the fuck is even happening 😭

[@biohazardg1rl]

literally the amount of videos i’ve watched about ugly love and i STILL don’t understand the plot

[@daydream5120]

@@biohazardg1rlI was feeling that way with Without Merit

[@clownmonomaniac2630]

@@biohazardg1rlomg i thought it was the only one who felt like that 😭 each time i tried to watch a video on ugly love id get so confused, but this time im actually kind of understanding it LOL

[@biohazardg1rl]

@@clownmonomaniac2630 literally this video actually helped me fully understand what was happening

[@cherryst4rss]

watched this video while drawing, zoned out a sec and i had no idea wtf was happening 😭😭

[@n04___357]

It honestly makes me kinda sad that colleen hoover is so popular like sure her books can be kind of entertaining and easy to read but there is pretty much nothing unique or interesting about her writing and its such a shame that authors who are genuinely talented are often overlooked while people like her get so much attention

[@kelswells]

Right!! It also makes me sad that so many women online think that these abusive, toxic, and horrible situations are sexy and romantic. Like girls, we can do so much better.

[@sstefanoska]

So true

[@mhj4]

exactly a lot of criticism focuses on how ridiculous and awful her plots and characters are but her writing style is SO bad it’s frustrating

[@kit4616]

Unfortunately that’s exactly why she’s popular. Literacy and media literacy (reading comprehension) have gone down significantly over the past few decades. Tiktok kids don’t WANT to think critically about the things they’re reading and they don’t want to feel challenged either by the reading level or the content within these books. They’re just reading her books because it’s trendy and they get to have their little book club online.

[@kaiser9598]

marisa fumo!

[@animekittykitty]

My family: "There's no stigma against people with mental health issues." Colleen Hoover: *"The true villians were the mental heath crisies we had along the way. 💕"*

[@Everythingisgoingtobeokay]

Enjoying the fact that I made your comment reach 666 likes 😂😂

[@TheCoyoteOutlaw]

This would be a terrifying horror novel from Laila's pov.

[@melonseed2814]

That first book genuinely has me horrified, and I think I’m going to have nightmares.

[@wolfwatch9731]

layla always makes me so angry. like this guy (1) shits on his girlfriend for a pretty normal change in behavior after a traumatic brain injury and (2) cheats on her in part bc of how she changed after her traumatic brain injury. like i don't care that it's okay bc technically it wasn't really his gf and he actually cheated with his gf, HE DIDN'T KNOW THAT?? like he does all this stuff while 100% believing that layla is layla. why would any woman want him back after he clearly demonstrated that he will resent you for having an understandable trauma response, will cheat on you bc of your trauma response, has an apparent complete lack of care for your bodily autonomy, and is willing to literally drug you.

[@nikkicarreon]

LITERALLY like girl RUNNNNN get away from that man

[@Thenoobestgirl]

Idk gurl, sounds like my perfect guy.

[@mika-qq1ib]

@@Thenoobestgirl respectfully, get help sweets

[@NotPluto_Rivera]

​@@mika-qq1ib I think they were being sarcastic/pos

[@nr.1txtstan]

​@@Thenoobestgirl just to be clear, you're being sarcastic, right?

[@enviousennui]

I'm a bookseller and the amount of people who come in asking for her books or books similar to her's since they've read all of her books..it's insane. We have so many of her books and I hate it. Like i don't judge people for what they buy but when people wholeheartedly say they love her writing, a little part of me dies. No you do not, get yourself out of your relationship i know that ain't healthy

[@gabbieguthman5587]

When someone tells me that they read Colleen Hoover books that tells me all I need to know about that person.

[@championn.werd10x]

If someone tells me they like colleen Hoover books, I’m straight outta there.

[@ettaetta439]

​​​@@gabbieguthman5587The only time I respected someone for telling me they liked CoHo was when they referred to the books as dark romance. But if CoHo had marketed her books as dark romance, they wouldnt have reached the young gullible women audience so easily (before the dark romance uproar on tiktok) and she wouldn't have made so much cash, refusing to put trigger warnings on books. Because money from aware, consenting adults isn't is as profitable as money from women who still don't understand what love and consent is, especially teens. I genuinely dislike her used-to-be-a-therapist self for preying on the minds of these young women who couldve just gone through their Wattpad phase instead, and for thinking trigger warnings will "spoil" a book. News flash, but if you always use trauma as plot twists, you're not a good writer. You should have more than just trauma in your book. She should at least have a trigger warning page in her book that readers can skip if they want or not.

[@oi2715]

The death of literature fr😭

[@oi2715]

@@gabbieguthman5587I found out my old best friend was into her books after we split; made SO much sense 😭. She had daddy issues to the nines

[@garfieldenjoyer2543]

Reading Colleen Hoover should only be necessary as capital punishment

[@sanderengelen9140]

I read her books so I feel motivated to read the rest of my books to heal and recover when I’m in a reading slump

[@chillitheconqueror3567]

Worse than the death sentence: Judge: you are found guilty of mass murdering an entire orphanage. Prisoner: will you sentence me to death? Judge: *pulls out Layla by Colleen Hoover* No, it's WORSE

[@tamakibread1411]

@@sanderengelen9140 good idea!

[@4PPL3BB]

Sorry dude. Violation of the 8th amendment 🤷‍♀️

[@special7217]

I agree. I would confess all secrets, if they just stop makiing me hear her garbage books.

[@caem77]

Ngl Layla lowkey sounded like it could be amazing??? But as a horror book, where Leeds gets absolutely destroyed at the end.

[@orpuhus_23sdragonstudios36]

I have to admit that until recently I thought Colleen Hoover and Colleen Balinger were the same person…

[@immkk1125]

I dont blame you, they may as well just be alternative versions of each other 💀💀

[@Drowned-Hubris]

I mean, I’ve never seen them in the same room together

[@rahnicoulter3816]

2 colleen 2 furious

[@amber1nn]

ugly love sounds like an onision original

[@angiejilani]

No literally 😂😂😂😂. She better credit him as a ghost writer

[@oi2715]

I just realized how much their books remind me of each other💀💀

[@starl0rd33]

no bc why are you absolutely correct,, the writing feels so similar 😭😭😭

[@starfiresreign]

😂😂 oh my god

[@reggiel7313]

Godammit the plot of Layla has some much potential for an actually good story told by a better writter

[@frognamedjog]

I feel like I could do better and I've never written fiction (other than intentionally terrible fics w my bsf)

[@Shirumoon]

I neither hate nor love CoHo because I have never actually read a book from her but the Layla plot actually had me hooked in this video? It's a really good idea and I would totally get that book if everyone was agreeing on the good execution of this horror plot

[@stinkyflower2864]

It could be good without the sex and shit it’s just cringe

[@NearsightedNarhwal]

*the feminine urge to rewrite the entire book as a horrific story of a girl being possessed and going through trauma and eventually getting revenge on her boyfriend who allowed a ghost to take over her body for his own pleasure*

[@amberdawn868]

Tbh I wish Layla and Sable could have had a talk in the brain of the body they end up sharing and then just end up as a couple and ditch the guy, lolll

[@alexdislikesappleskins]

my biggest flex is NEVER reading a colleen hoover book besides everyone around me reading her "books"

[@maninanikittycat4238]

I never read her books too. mainly because I don't like romance and romance makes me go "UGH **BORING!**"

[@camila1925]

Fr, I only consider reading it ends with us bc it actually seems good, but all of her other works just made me lose my will to read anything else she writes

[@notreally412]

If you read any of them read it ends with us or verity

[@vverminn_]

I read Ugly Love in one day and I will never touch a Colleen Hoover book ever again

[@notreally412]

@@vverminn_ that's valid. I've read like seven of her books.

[@aurorabelle6075]

KZbin autoplays this video to me every night after 9pm. I feel like I wake up to this video at least twice a week. I'm just confused as to why youtube wants me to watch this on repeat. It's this video and the horror novel vid

[@Leanmeantigerqueen2000]

20:17 - 20:26 Alright, the book sucks and all, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone use a piano instead of a traditional ouija board to communicate with a ghost, and that idea just sounds really cool (kinda reminds me of the Christmas lights situation from Stranger Things). If anyone knows any other form of literature or film that featured piano communication like this, please let me know, but this is the first instance I’ve ever heard of, and I’m really in love with the idea of using a big musical instrument to talk to ghosts.

[@Andyy152]

Idk how much of similar it is but the novel/books "mo dao zu shi" from mxtx literally have people playing some instrument with strings to talk to ghosts, like its a fact and it has basically a language in it

[@dopamine5170]

the fact that the pilot sex obsessed love interest is called miles and they DIDN'T have a "mile high club" moment makes me sooooooo mad

[@massivel]

hey what show is your pfp from, bossbabe?

[@dopamine5170]

@@massivel its griffith from beserk bossbabes 💅

[@mysticalasduck6514]

my most favorite thing in the world is the fact that in my local library, the old classics and romance/erotica section is contained in the same isle, which means you can look at colleen hoover, turn around, and immediately see the illiad

[@1WEareBUFO1]

Eroooticcaaa

[@alex9581]

i can't stop thinking about how the last thing rachel and miles ever said about their baby before he died was that he's got big balls. like imagine having to live with that for the rest of your life. your last memory of your dead son

[@ZimothydaAlien]

Is it bad that I laughed at this comment?

[@special7217]

Coleen Hoover's books make dirty books guys used to read , sound like classics.

[@shotaaizawaslay]

'Layla' is actually so disgusting and very much an accidental metaphore (and I insist on saying accidental because there is no way miss Hoover intended to that) of men often cheating and leaving their partners when they go through traumatic things especially when it's debilitating. Women don't matter to them and it's even worse when they dare to think they could be a buzzkill to their men's happiness and comfort even though THEY are the one suffering and being abused and neglected.

[@ek0dev]

Fr like "ugh Layla's been such a buzzkill since she's been recovering from being shot" JEEZ I WONDER WHY.

[@ot7biasedmashups]

Yeah my biggest issue with Colleen is that she paints everything as romantic. There's in on itself nothing wrong about writing messed up love stories. But you need to make it obvious that this is in fact not healthy or okay. It's messed up. And she doesn't. Which means a bunch of teens and women read these books and think this is okay behavior bc ohhhh it's so sweet they're literally soulmates! Even if Layla literally got cheated on, almost drugged, raped and SAd with no consequences. Colleen should just hop on ao3 truly cuz get stories do not deserve to be books. She writes Dead Dove, Do Not Eat but paints it as Dead Dove, dw it still tastes good

[@jasperjazzie]

a lot of ppl are saying it'd make a good horror book, and it def would but even if it weren't necessarily horror but just a deconstruction of the manic pixie dream girl trope and how it's unrealistic to want that in a relationship, and it could have been interesting, but nope

[@lavernebennet7395]

if i were Willow i'd just refuse to keep entering Layla's body until Leeds told Layla about it

[@Thesbian91]

First she suffers through the idol for us... now this 😭😭

[@y2karah]

A trooper fr 😢

[@LuzuraHater]

@@y2karahShe’s out here in the trenches and we can’t help but salute her 🙏

[@camcowboy8552]

I wanna say I have never been more terrified than when I read Layla. Especially the smut. Absolutely horrifying. And not because they do anything crazy but just because of how they used Layla's body. Like the way the book tried to gaslight me into thinking IT WAS OK BC IT WAS ACTUALLY SABLE THEY USED THE WHOLE TIME? no. Not to mention the way they portray Sable as just being *crazy*. Hoover doesn't elaborate on specific mental illnesses-- she just has all of them. On top of that, the way Leeds was annoyed with her eating disorder instead of concerned, bothered me.

[@Thenoobestgirl]

Understandably

[@QuintetMagician]

As someone currently writing a horror story with misogyny as the main theme, it’s almost eerie how similar some of her ideas are to ones I’ve had to make my male villain as despicable as possible. I really have to side eye her for portraying the shit she does as romance.

[@Natsu.dragneel448]

Whats the name of your book? when it comes out I'd love to read it.

[@DwynTwo]

Yes, me too, I'd love to read it!

[@salemmarz3809]

let me know what it’s called i’m curious

[@queenmaria9601]

What’s the name of your book

[@H.I.T.C]

Book name drop plzzz

[@crowqueen69420]

LMAO I love that Merit and Honor have a brother just named Utah. My name is Liberty and my mom's name is Freedom and people will ask me if my brother is named Justice but nope. His name is Max.

[@FACTORYSHORTBUS]

Does he ever feel left out of the naming convention?

[@muchomango11]

Hearing the plot of Layla for the first time… how could ANYONE consider that ROMANTIC?!??!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭

[@pinkerhero]

(you made these stories engaging, great job) timestamps so I don't get lost 1:49 Layla (2020) 36:34 ugly love (2014) 1:05:02 without merit (2017) 1:37:30 too late (2016)

[@jillianlemons]

thank u!!!

[@magena120]

I saw my English teacher reading “Too Late” today and could see her cringing at the pages from her desk . I was not expecting it to be that bad.

[@msablan3]

My friend wanted to get into reading so she started with “It Ends with Us.” Safe to say she hasn’t picked up another book since.

[@oi2715]

Even to adults, if someone wants to get into reading I always recommend the percy jackson series. Theyre timeless lol.

[@cheeto.burrito]

If someone wants to get into reading and does not mind/can view adult content, I will say Chuck Tingle is beginner friendly tbh

[@alicethemad1613]

If she wants tiktok popular books or stuff like that just give her iron widow. It’s not like 100% the absolute best book ever written but it’s pretty great and I burned through the whole thing in 2 days despite being a really slow reader. Got me solidly hyped for the sequel and wanting to read more Chinese sci fi/fantasy.

[@dancelikean1diot]

oh no 😭😭 i hope she can find a way better book to read

[@fatherwardsleftshoe]

Her reading journey definitely ended with that book💀

[@rata2lle]

Layla is so confusingly interesting, plot twists literally everywhere, Layla being an absolute mood, Layla being Willow, Layla also being Sabel, it really takes a certain amount of creativity to write a book like this so I really like Colleen’s creativity, the concept is kinda wtf but the creativity is through the roof

[@soho6435]

i don't think it's creative because you can't just make shit up to fix weird plotholes and call it creativity. creativity still needs to make sense. and this world Layla is written in seems like has no consistent rules. like there is plot twist after plot twist for absolutely no reason and without adhering to any rules, even abstract ones. so imo it's not creativity but just wild bullshit lol

[@yuliyaromanyuk8093]

1:23:29 the comment about us only listening and not watching litterally made my day as i was cleaning my appartment hahahaha

[@sstefanoska]

I'm baffled at how popular she actually is, upon reading some of her work i was surprised at how bad the writing style is, if i showed it to my english teacher and said i wrote it she'd tell me I lack creativity and to go back to wattpad

[@oi2715]

Yeah. I see some ppl saying she could write horror, but even if her ideas could work pretty well for that genre her writing is still so.. Just bad, really bad.

[@eightcoins4401]

Most of those people straight up are just fanfiction writers that got a book publishing deals.

[@alicedodobirb2808]

​@@eightcoins4401Ihaven't read her books but I have read fanfiction, and I have a strong feeling that a lot of fanfic writers are better than her

[@lumenx7499]

The only Colleen Hoover fan I’ve met was a teen girl who was with a college student who was a deadbeat who had cheated on her but she forgave him because she loved him and he made her happy.

[@wjshty]

average coho fan

[@Detective_asparagus]

Hope she grows up before that "boyfriend" takes away the chance

[@childeater319]

her life is a movie, "the predator" 💀💀

[@joemamacaprisun]

literally sounds like the plot of a colleen hoover book 😭

[@kiplingwasafurry1108]

NO SERIOUSLY the only fan of hers I met was this girl who was dating my ex friend who treated us like shit and believed in crazy stuff like Holocaust denial. After they broke up she’d talk about how he was the best boyfriend ever and tried to get back together with him even after we told her about how awful he treated us. Legends say she’s still trying to get back together with him.

[@ObeyLucifer]

THE WITHOUT MERIT ONE IS COMPLETELY BONKERS. Collen HAS to be trolling us. The stupid names make it so much more funnier and absurd.

[@probablyjinxed]

it feels like the english equivalent of weeb kids making up fake japanese names for their ocs 😭

[@kiplingwasafurry1108]

I get made fun of for giving my characters names that “sound silly” and next time someone says that I’ll just show them a Colleen Hoover book bc they’re so much more stupid.

[@catsungdae]

@@probablyjinxed ...not a weeb personally, but after discovering danganronpa at age 10 i made a handful of OCs who's names were just danganronpa characters' names but with one or two letters changed 💀 like jakoto jukizome very much still exists and im not sorry about it. my stories are still as angsty/edgy as they were when i was 10 but god forbid if they ever get as bad as colleen hoover books 💀💀💀

[@salemmarz3809]

like who in their right mind names characters things like utah, merit, tate, lily blossom bloom, etc.

[@erika2m16]

Willow, Sable, Aspen? She went to a doggy daycare and copied all their names for that first book 😂

[@SpleenMuncher71]

1:07:30 OH MY GOD, I WENT TO MIDDLE SCHOOL WITH TWIN BROTHERS NAMED HONOR AND MERIT 😭😭🙏🙏

[@i-likeyummystuff]

THATS INSANE 😭😭

[@galaxyocicat5660]

That's it. We found it boys. A CoHo book even worse, more disgusting, and more abusive than November 9.

[@Taemtiddies]

Which?

[@ettaetta439]

​@@Taemtiddiesi think Layla or November 9.

[@mer_acle8101]

you mean all of them right?

[@Taemtiddies]

@@mer_acle8101 periodt.

[@janamahmoudadel14]

maybe not is so much worse, alizee reviews it and it's horrific

[@scotchedtapee]

on one hand, i think it’s super smart to use tiktok to get people to read more (as cringe as seeing “as seen on tiktok” signs and stickers is), on the other i am pleading for tiktok to read actual good literature

[@dancelikean1diot]

i thought that was only my bookstore!! unfortunately they have like 1 other book and everything else is just coho

[@kimijk]

recommendations?

[@salemmarz3809]

unfortunately there are people who read without critical thought ☹️

[@elPedroL.Galera]

TikTok is full of teens, if I were you I would lower that bar of expectations.

[@Ixc795]

Ot would be smart if booktok promoted good books

[@Letmebool]

The third book having characters that are supposed to be named after their attributes had me so heated

[@iCat4Ever]

most of her books are like this too lol

[@Lemoncakelover678]

I do that too to give them extra detail but at least it's subtle

[@user3904A]

YES! In “it ends with us” the mc is called lily blossom bloom and she owns a flower shop !?&(&;!? that shit killed me 💀💀💀

[@FlatAssTruther]

Lily Blossom Bloom who owns the flower shop.

[@joemamacaprisun]

miles the pilot and blossom bloom who owns a flower shop 💀💀

[@lunareclipse2401]

im only at 0:11 and Why would u do that to urself

[@moonycat]

56:39 I'M FUCKING CRYING THAT CAUGHT ME SO OFF GUARD "Our son's balls are so big! HAHAHA OH MY GOD LOOK OUT THERE'S A SEMI TRUCK SWERVING INTO OUR LANE!"

[@nikkicarreon]

Just wanted to let you guys know I added chapters :) I can't pin this bc I have to keep my sponsor link up but I hope this reaches anyone who started the video & needs them lol

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[@yamzuh]

Your retelling of "Layla" helps understand why I saw that damned book in the Thiller section in a Barnes and Nobles.. But leave it to Colleen Hoover to make sex with a ghost in the body of your wife, which has her killer's soul inside, romantic 😍

[@Thenoobestgirl]

At least one store is putting her in the right section... 🙄

[@mikudayo_biggest_fan3939]

that’s actually amazing, they acknowledge the book’s real genre instead of calling it a cutesy romance ☠️

[@Cinnaschticks]

Oh thank goodness

[@lilygotsilly]

if layla were written with the intentionality of psychological horror it could've been such a gem

[@JulietteVeronica1201]

Layla would be a fantastic horror book. It would've had so much potential.

[@cheddarbeansoup]

"we both laugh at our son's big balls" this sentence is HORRENDOUS

[@akinaneon-xz6oj]

I read once that Collem Hoover is for people who haven't had a Wattpad phase. I agree. You can read 100s of her books for free, and she's making millions. Can't be mad at her.

[@oi2715]

Istg her books are marketed towards ppl who’ve hardly picked up a books in their life, much less a good one😭. They’re really easy to read, like they’re written for 5th graders but explicit and somehow more cringy

[@Thenoobestgirl]

Yes, you can. You should. Be mad at her.

[@akinaneon-xz6oj]

@Thenoobestgirl I mean, if it wasn't for people reading her trashy books, she would be another nobody. I'm just mad at the money she's gaining from writing the same book over and over.

[@FlatAssTruther]

​@@ThenoobestgirlThank you lol. Also most aren't mad at her for being a shitty writer, we're mad at her for romanticizing abuse constantly.

[@kajsakarlsson9553]

And ao3 is much better quality than wattpad. Just imagine what free stories can be found there..

[@intergalactic-loser]

I was so taken aback when nikki started explain the plot of without merit bcs that's literally verity?? like Colleen wrote the same book expect verity is from the pov of the live in woman and the wife is the villain in verity 😭

[@minnowartscrafts]

I was wondering how one woman could have so many messed up fantasies... now I know that it's not that many lol

[@intergalactic-loser]

@@minnowartscrafts its literally the same book, spoilers but you shouldn't read it but verity the wife is also faking her illness in that book

[@minnowartscrafts]

@@intergalactic-loser oh, I've read Verity. If all the books I've ever read, it is the single book I regret reading the most 😂 I kept finding myself going, "damn, if this woman was slightly less horny, and had a good developmental editor (and maybe a co-author) this could have been a decent story," and then later on going, "nope, nevermind, this is awful 😞" I liked the creepy kid. (The one who lived) She gets a tenth of a point for the creepy kid. That is all.

[@alwaysannoyedforever518]

@@minnowartscraftsi hated the ending the most. It made me resent her as a writer. I was just so pissed and wondering what it could if been if an actually good writer wrote it.

[@intergalactic-loser]

@@alwaysannoyedforever518 have you read the bonus chapter where they kill ANOTHER woman bcs she figures out they killed verity?

[@bloodsoakedsocks]

No one should ever forget when Colleen tried to make a colouring book....

[@cheeto.burrito]

​@@star_jams4nekosMy black colored pencil would be a nub :(

[@ijustlikebees]

​@star_jams4nekos what about poop brown?😍

[@kiplingwasafurry1108]

@@ijustlikebeesI hate how I got the line this was referencing 🤦‍♀️🐎

[@mikudayo_biggest_fan3939]

@@star_jams4nekos i don’t get the reference

[@ijustlikebees]

@@kiplingwasafurry1108 I wasn't referencing anything huh

[@-l-e-o-2524]

It's so incredibly sad that a big portion of her readers are teenage girls. A lot of my friends read her book "it starts with us" and think that there's nothing wrong in it.

[@Mro637]

That’s what happens when you don’t read a lot. You think a terrible book is amazing.

[@massivel]

@@Mro637 close but no.plenty of these kids are avid readers.the problem is how teenage girls are groomed by society into thinking abuse is "hot". theyre addicted to sexually problematic and misogynistic media.

[@VampireBat0]

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[@lillymae9637]

the amount of internalized misogyny in colleen’s book is CRAZYYYY the pro life shit makes my brain want to explode

[@dylanjstafford]

Colleen’s character naming conventions need to be addressed by the highest authorities.

[@Bonesinbloom]

Someone told me I have the same name as one of her characters, and I've been stressed ever since.

[@tyler-df3wy]

The way there’s more incest rep in coho books than gay rep... Edit: oh yeah of course the only prominent queer rep is. also incestual. yeah makes sense I guess awesome thanks colleen

[@hex0578]

Diversity win! The only gay character is also a sexual assaulter

[@helenahildegarda5739]

Incest rep is such a weird combination of words... sorry, it is just funny lmao. I imagine Colleen being like: "representation? Oh, I have minority representation in my books. Yeah, the incest community is so thankful for the positive portrayal" like that is so surreal to think of

[@galaxychill9578]

helen i need you to know that your comment made me laugh so hard my heart hurted

[@striderspoker4811]

i wonder if she wrote Layla after watching that one episode where Carrie possesses Gumball and makes him eat a bunch of food against his will :(

[@sinemrizova108]

I WAS THINKING THE SAME

[@one-onessadhalf3393]

Bro I was thinking that too

[@rachael5025]

i dont understand how layla isnt a horror story where leeds gaslights some poor woman into believing shes being possessed by a ghost and he finally gets off by drowning her in a pool

[@Chonken-e1o]

Thank you for the TW Bad Writing 🥺 I break out in hives when I read terrible literature, which is why I have to watch you read it for me ❤

[@IWillNeverReadYourReply]

Colleen seems to be unable to realize that people can have casual sex and not be a terrible person or a nothing person.

[@massivel]

you meant to say "women" not "people".she only has this problem when it comes to women.

[@thestanleyparableultradeluxe]

@@massivel pretty sure she kinda demonized the fact that ryle kincaid (abuser in one of her books) did casual sex as well. its so strange how every single negative character shares that trait, like what??

[@heartsforbrenda]

I had to convince my grandma to not read colleen hoover - a very interesting conversation …

[@Taemtiddies]

Which one? Trauma level 1-10

[@hoennfanboy]

I remember my grandmother bringing up Colleen Hoover a very long time ago but I can't remember if she said it was horrible or if she was a fan. I'm going to ask her tomorrow, Im nervous for her response lol. I think what she had said is that she tried to read one because of how popular Hoover is but "couldnt get through it because it was so odd and confusing", but that may have been about a different author.

[@azric5547]

@@hoennfanboyomg I need to know what it was

[@iknowyoursearchhistory]

@@hoennfanboyknock knock what was it

[@FlatAssTruther]

I mean at least you saved your grandma from that horrific fate.

[@jenlel2707]

The Layla book actually disturbed me so bad. Im disgusted. 😟

[@Londoño-14924]

A mí también creo que no voy a poder dormir

[@Sue-vu1pk]

She really takes “I can fix him” to another level

[@Blap15]

Colleen Hoovers Obsession with the protective ass older brother and his best friend meeting his sister boom 💥 fall in love while hiding it from him is..... 😬 Plus the amount of incest in her books isn't helping it either

[@pappanalab]

Layla would be such a good horror story if it was narrated from post-brain damage Layla’s perspective.

[@NearsightedNarhwal]

I honestly believe the quality of Layla could’ve Increased by at least 30 percent If it ended with Layla getting revenge for her body being used against her Will

[@demitwice]

the only book by colleen hoover i've read was "slammed", which is about a student-teacher relationship and it's so romaticized my older sister told me she thought it was "the cutest romance" when she was 13 (at this point she was in her early 20's and hadn't stop to think about how weird it was). i read it when i was 14 and it was terrible

[@mariekondude2736]

okay wait so 1:12:28 "you bury me" is definitely Coleen having just learned about the Arabic word ya'aburnee (i think that's how its latinized) and was like 'this'll make him seem so metal and cool'

[@loosegoosewithacaboose]

layla genuinely sounds like a really interesting and twisted paranormal psychological horror. because that’s exactly what it is, and it could have the potential to be like a creepy shorter novel but the romance makes it actually vomit worthy unfortunately

[@Starsongzz]

Booktok is where “respectable” women of society go to release their most depraved selves someone’s aunt Beth is reading this stuff💀

[@purpee6]

It’s always the Colleen’s that get popular on the internet 😞

[@the_meower]

😳🚂

[@angefox4153]

No that’s just the tawksick gawsip traiyne talking 🚂

[@trepidatio13]

​@@angefox4153As it's choogging down the traks of mesinformashion

[@iknowyoursearchhistory]

⁠​⁠@@trepidatio13da tohksick gawcsep chrayne 🚂 🚊

[@This.isfaeee]

you got a one way ticket to manipulation station 😃

[@Starsongzz]

Okay after hearing these for awhile I’ve come up with a career pivot for Colleen. Rebrand as a dark RomCom writer and she’d be a #1 best seller over night. The part about the dude chucking his wife in the basement had me in cringe-laughing tears. I just imagine her down there making goblin sounds and skittering around the house at night taking “trinkets” she steals from her family. And as she does she says “I’ll be having that” in her goblin voice as she throws it into her sack.

[@1WEareBUFO1]

The preciouus

[@kiplingwasafurry1108]

That sounds like a sick satire ngl

[@PretendingNotToBeABore]

If Colleen branded the Layla story as horror it wouldn't be half bad, but the fact it's not just paints her abilty to tell a proper story so poorly

[@boomboxhead9253]

i have a humble request 🙏🙏can u make a video going into a DEEP dive about Too Late because it is genuinely crazy. I found a PDF of it and read the whole thing and this book genuinely had me tweaking. I also really like your book reviews so it would be very entertaining to watch.

[@Safeara397]

this video felt like listening to my bestie info dump about their new hyper focus. loved it, 10/10

[@chrissy3875]

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[@UndyingFlower]

Nikki being able to make a Colleen Hoover book listenable is a talent

[@angiejilani]

The names in these books are like white women in their 30s naming their kids "nayvee" and "caightleingh"

Nikki i love when you post these long videos because for some reason they immediately put me to sleep. I think I’ve rewatched this maybe 3 times and I still don’t know about what’s in them. Thank you for being my White noise and goodnight 🫡

[@i.heart.idiashroudd]

colleen hoover sounds like she would call the book Lolita a book about a teen temptress