"Verity" by Colleen Hoover is an unhinged dumpster fire. And that's an understatement.

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[@angryotter9129]

You know how cats have some parasite in their poo that influences their owner’s behavior? I think Jeremy’s peen has something similar going on that attracts heauxs and makes them obsessed with him.

[@withcindy]

LOL WHY IS THIS COMMENT SO VISCERAL

[@Diamondsnake0]

I'm dying at "heauxs" 😭

[@andrea205]

Toxoplasmosis

[@andrea205]

Its also the reason pregnant people shouldnt take care of the litterbox, bc it can be fatal to the fetus, or cause problems in its development

[@zyerkos]

@@Sam-0827 ayo 🤨🤨🤨

[@loureedpipes]

Bro not Jeremy roasting the woman at target who was having an affair... right before having an affair 😭😭 its the double standards and bizarrely written women for me

[@withcindy]

LOL RIGHT??

[@n4h354]

didn't he also literally make a comment about hypocrites soon after administering that epic burn?

[@loureedpipes]

@@n4h354 Wait, I don't remember that. If so, I'm even more baffled 😭

[@n4h354]

@@loureedpipes 24:51 enjoy~

[@jamangel]

FR

[@muckamuck]

i can't get over how empty these characters' lives feel when they're not banging and manifesting bullshit drama. it's giving "live, laugh, lick the shaft"

[@withcindy]

the way verity would legit hang that sign up in their house

[@penusbutter4182]

"Lick the shaft" holy shit

[@internetexplorer6304]

I WANT THIS ON A SHIRT RIGHT NOW

[@Sam-0827]

Immmm screaming 😂😂😂 I can’t this is -

[@steverainbow2.0]

these characters are so empty that it seems that the book is still an unfinished version, it seems that they simply took away all the part of the story that would develop these characters

[@demaizu1804]

. . . . hang on, if verity was writing everything down all opposite day, wouldn’t that mean that the sex with jeremy was the worst she’d ever had?

[@withcindy]

That's more believable

[@o_o-lj1ym]

Maybe that’s why he killed her!

[@koboldcatgirl]

@@withcindy It would have been cool foreshadowing if when POV Girl had sex with Jeremy it was _awful._

[@SirMasterRattington]

Lmao I know right?!

[@keniarosemary]

😂😂😂

[@SeymourDisapproves]

Biting over another woman's headboard teeth marks is crazy. That feels like gnawing on someone else's half-eaten corn cob.

[@Melissa-rb6ct]

😂😂😂

[@Ehreads]

I mean, sounds like the main character also wants to finish gnawing Jeremy’s corn cob for Verity 💀

[@erikaplaza7605]

UNHINGEDDDD

[@marinshiff]

yuri

[@weaseldog9]

@@EhreadsNAH 😂

[@cuddlewuffle]

god sometimes these sex scenes are SO explicit and overly detailed that it feels more like you’re reading gore than sex

[@withcindy]

truly putting the horror genre to work

[@flowersforyouu]

real omg I hateeee reading sex scenes that are so explicit instead of using show don’t tell 😭 like it’s just so gross hearing ‘his dick was cumming all over my pussy’

[@howlette]

whorror

[@Moonstar79]

Fr it feels like a competition to be the most edgy you can, it totally defeats the purpose of smut 😭

[@jamangel]

LMAO

[@ahaha420xx]

this is the most "just get an abortion" book i've ever seen

[@jessicar2609]

Pretty sure CoHo is anti-choice so instead she just makes her characters villains when they don't want the child they're carrying.

[@ladonnakalala]

Literally

[@searoses]

She should have aborted the book.

[@withcindy]

The book is a great contraceptive method

[@Nathi98]

When she said she wasn't far along I just thought: Make the appointment, get rid of the fertilised human blob

[@Prizzlesticks]

He strangled her before he killed her, which means there would 100% be bruises on her throat. Not to mention if she struggled at all, there would be DNA under nails. Like, c'mon. That's just bad mystery writing.

[@withcindy]

TRUUUUUUUUU

[@megabyte1302]

Strangulation also can bruise or break the larynx/pharynx in a specific way, so an autopsy would've shown it was a murder

[@Prizzlesticks]

@@megabyte1302 Yes, those are indeed included in the set of structures that make up the throat.

[@christinprustel6440]

THANK YOU!!!!! I was like will no one talk about how this "plan" will not work unless he will deal with the world's dumbest cops ever.

[@vaishnavisingh9244]

@@christinprustel6440 i mean he is a white dude with money

[@buzzinbea]

Wait, how isn't the main character mad at Jeremy for apparently finding "I thought she was autistic" an acceptable excuse for trying to murder a child??

[@quinnywinny3]

CoHo probably doesnt see a problem with murdering an autistic kid😬 ‘aspergers’…

[@ottymatir7143]

because it’s Jeremy he just wants his dick sucked let him be! poor baby

[@lindsey1412]

He was mad because he notices that she treats that kid differently and with less love and emotion, and her excuse was because autistic children don't want that kind of attention or something. If I remember correctly he didn't actually see her in the act

[@alexandriak7991]

Because ableism lol It's hyper common IRL There's a video put out by Autism Speaks (they're an "autism awareness" organization, but the autism community sees them as a hate group) with a mom who has one autistic daughter and a non-autistic daughter. She literally says she wanted to drive off a bridge, but her having a non-autistic daughter stopped her. Only autistic people and parents of autistic children called it out for being ableist. But that's why. Cause ableism lol As a disabled person myself, I wasn't even surprised when reading this book. Just disgusted at all the ableism in it

[@friendlystoryphantom2043]

@@alexandriak7991mg! Thank you!! I was livid, upon reading the above comment (Note: I’m not mad at the person who left the comment. I hope they are having a wonderful day or night and I wish no negativity on them.) I have autism and hope to have kids of my own one day because kids are awesome. I could never imagine hurting any child, regardless of my autism or the child having autism, and the fact the author wrote that is just absolutely ridiculous. Ignorance that isn’t by choice is fine, that means you’re learning and that’s okay. Choosing to be ignorant is not. Don’t even get me started on Autism Speaks and as for that mother, abhorrent behavior. Abhorrent.

[@fedjydanger4342]

Her bitting the headboard is the equivalent of Edward breaking the whole bed in Twilight 😭

[@withcindy]

NOOOOOOO

[@SF-op5ix]

LMFAO REAL.

[@frenchgirl5878]

That scene was disgusting. I still feel dirty from reading those lines. UGH!

[@KittenJune96]

Like madam are you a beaver or possibly a termit?

[@ardentlyyearning]

LMAO NOOO 😭

[@vidushis]

the way colleen's characters glorify and praise the most mid men ever is beyond me

[@withcindy]

just like society... her commentary is so valid!!

[@jamangel]

It's SICK

[@saharasafari9]

I know girls just like that

[@rei02862]

Not just the most mid men, the most abusive men too lord

[@vidushis]

@@rei02862 ikr

[@starlitbri]

fun fact: i did a presentation on the importance of writing birth control in fiction for my wgs class, and i used colleen hoover as an example of toxic, abusive, and unhealthy relationships!

[@swara4704]

slay bestie

[@miffieyy]

That is so interesting!

[@M.H.I.A.F.T.]

@starlitbri does it not occur that the book reflects how women really do falal for abusive assholes in reality? That perhaps she's an unreliable narrator?

[@katieward9701]

@starlitbri That sounds super interesting, would you be willing to share your presentation??

[@chelseacounsell]

Hello! What is a wgs class? :0

[@Fishfriedtiddie33]

The man dying at the beginning is the most unhinged opening to a novel I’ve ever read. Especially since it has NOTHING to do with the rest of the novel.

[@markthompson180]

I disagree. It's actually brilliant foreshadowing. It presages how the author can create a character and then kill it off at the end of the story and have absolutely no character development in between those two events. :P

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

Me: Main character checks mail. Also me: MtF goddess has her egg crack and she "comes out" to some crusy old white guy. Who promptly gets Mortal Kombat'ed and has his corpse turned into a deer mouse. He gets resurrected though.

[@carolineblueskies]

What is it with these characters that are obsessed with their husbands to the point of being jealous of their kids?? Does this happen? People, please seek therapy.

[@withcindy]

im sure it does happen which is sad

[@alenyaus]

My grandma's mom was like this, although I don't think it was bc she was obsessed with her husband but rather with her own self. My grandma was traumatized by this for her whole life. Not me psychoanalyzing my ancestor on a Colleen hoover review lol

[@clairvaux8459]

Probably does happen, but I hear more often about husbands being jealous of their kids lmao. Indicative of immaturity, for sure.

[@lindsy4514]

My brother in law told my sister that he was hesitant to have children because then HE wouldn’t get enough attention from her… 👀🚩🚩🚩

[@ladyredl3210]

I think psychologically speaking, it’s because they want affection. It’s still creepy and weird. But what do I know, I’m a childless lesbian.

[@purpleknight665]

wasnt expecting the twist to be essentially just “me when i lie”

[@withcindy]

me when i play a silly lil prank

[@Moonstar79]

me when i’m a little goofy

[@jamangel]

Lmfao

[@communistelmo6799]

Me when I feel a bit mischievous

[@shirendjorgee9320]

Me doing a little trolling

[@britnym99]

I was really hoping that the reveal would be that it was the husband that actually wrote the manuscript. That HE was the one that hated the kids and was jealous so he killed them. Then when verity found out, he caused the car crash and wrote the manuscript to frame her. And the main girl would believe Verity was the bad person all this time and would cover for him when he killed Verity.

[@MsLucky1234567]

That’s what I thought too. Would’ve been better tbh.

[@zainabreads4382]

im saying! i was so unsatisfied with the ending bc it was odd that jeremy picked lowen to ghostwrite for verity (but lying to lowen in the beginning saying verity liked her books, when it was him who did). and then killing his wife so easily without listening to her side of the story imagine if jeremy picked out lowen to replace his wife years before and their "chance meeting" on the street wasnt by coincidence and he was planning out making her fall in love with him all along.. and lowen realizing she helped assist killing his innocent wife and is now trapped with him. the bonus chapter villainizes jeremy more however its still mostly a mystery what is the truth

[@hampai7137]

​@@zainabreads4382imagine naming your child iowen

[@Lucy-uf6oi]

this is the only ending that makes sense to be honest

[@isntsheabeaut7456]

i really like this ending, i wish it happened

[@kytten]

**Sobbing as a former Steak 'n Shake worker** i saw people like this, i swear, it's horrific. Please, you're drunk as hell, go home and do your nasty nasty there.

[@Haze-xr9rc]

*(pat pat)* there there

[@angryscottishguy8018]

@valistired late but same lmfao

[@anirlarchivist]

it's the way verity is shamed in the book for not wanting kids and her obvious severe post-partum depression for me💁‍♂️

[@withcindy]

the way nobody will actually talk about that part thooooo

[@jessicar2609]

I've also heard before that coho is very pro life, so it tracks that she would rather have a character depict trying to give herself an abortion or kill her children, and making her the villain, instead of discussing the mental strain on people who are pregnant that don't want to be and how that impacts the relationship with their children later on.

[@shubhraagarwal9250]

Exactly what I was thinking

[@qetsiyah1766]

@@jessicar2609 hey do you have a source for that so I can tell my friend? She likes Hoover, but that is something that would change her mind.

[@jessicar2609]

@@qetsiyah1766 from what I've seen its just speculation, but I think she may have liked a pro life post on insta or something. Reddit would probably be a good recourse to use to see if anyone has put together evidence for lack of a better term.

[@effullgent]

the sad thing is this could have been such a good book focusing on women's mental health during pregnancy and PPD but instead she villianizes her for feeling this way instead of promoting ways to help or bring awareness

[@withcindy]

that would require actual thought and nuance

[@claudiafernandes1150]

I thought the same thing! It could have been so interesting.

[@jumisjam]

thats like how her other book "It ends with us" was a great opportunity to address domestic violence but it turned into a very sappy thing... still romantasizing the abuser..

[@deli5194]

Not If hoover had her way with it. nothing coming out of her brain can be good

[@simplebeauty120]

Yesss. I kept getting so annoyed watching this video and going off on my own tangents to myself and to my husband about exactly that. I wish someone else had written this book because it could’ve been so interesting. But no. It had to be Colleen Hoover -.-

[@exhaustedhomo7059]

i’ve just noticed that this supposed “autobiography” of verity’s literally begins when she meets jeremy. essentially saying she had no life before him, and he’s the centre of her world. it’s honestly disgusting how books like this and ‘the wives’ make it seem like women have no interesting stories to tell without a man to drive the plot forward. verity has no friends, no hobbies that don’t involve jeremy in some way, and no wants, needs or dreams that aren’t about jeremy. these types of “dark” novels would be fine if they were well written or diverse in their narratives, but more and more recently i see this influx of books where the woman is turned into this caricature of a person whose only purpose is catering to a man. if i wanted to see moderately attractive people fucking to the backdrop of a mediocre plot, i’d watch porn. at least it lacks the monotony of colleen’s attempts at literary prowess.

[@nikolle8029]

Damn... Couldn't have said it better myself

[@christinprustel6440]

Omg you are right didn't even notice this amongst the rest of the dumpster fire that is this book

[@randomnerd3402]

The character is written as a sex doll for Jeremy rather than an actual person, it's so nasty I can't

[@aimun5255]

It's because it's a laughable attempt at a modern version of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, in which the narrator doesn't even have a name throughout the book to reinforce the eternal light (shadow?) of the love interest's first wife, the glorious Rebecca. But this book just executes the same ideas in such a terrible way that it just ends up making the girl seem so bland. better to just actually read Rebecca and enjoy the gothic fucked up vibes

[@BasileosHerodou]

Girl you're getting way too mad about a bad novel barely anyone will read

[@pastelguts6182]

Every character in this needs to go to jail. Verity? Jail. MC? Jail. Jeremy? Jail. Colleen? Jail. Solitary confinement.

[@kid-ava]

W

[@jairai5922]

Yes 😂😂😂

[@engelberthovel8566]

YES

[@AziTaylorsVersion4]

I love how you said MC because I’m 100% sure no one who read this book can remember the MCs name 😭

[@roelin360]

​@@AziTaylorsVersion4she might as well be y/n

[@tannerorrock1916]

after listening to this book I confirm that I have double downed on my Asexuality

[@withcindy]

i understand.

[@samantharose1001]

lmao I appreciate this comment and can relate even from watching this vid

[@EleiyaUmei]

as an ace, this is such a mood

[@p0ssibly]

same

[@jasminsch1174]

Aro here I would never

[@shoujitenken]

It's the internalised misogyny for me 💅✨

[@withcindy]

its what makes the book spicy

[@frenchgirl5878]

For real. None of the two women in the book were it, but I had a deep hate for the protagonist that made me cheer for the villain I swear.

[@tedros6917]

Sis at this point it's external 😭

[@shoujitenken]

Real 😔🙏🙏🙏

[@mkay4]

Misogyny and ableism, the spices of life 🤌✨

[@mikip282]

“she decided to write a bunch of heinous shit because it was opposite day.” the noise that left my body 💀

[@Melissa-rb6ct]

😂 same

[@Dressup_Doll]

I mean……

[@HobieInTheBox]

The way that this book is prolife (forced birth), anti sexuality, abelist and mysoginistic all in one 💀

[@Dressup_Doll]

Gonna be real honest from that I’ve seen in other videos, that’s pretty much all she writes.

[@ilovegarlicbreadandice]

FINALLY these books are for people who never had their wattpad phase back when they were 14

[@withcindy]

wattpad but make it edgy

[@clairvaux8459]

girl fr these books are for the people who never grew out of their internalised misogyny from seventh grade 😭 like when we were fourteen and a girl starts having beef with you for no reason and you're just like...damn, whose dick are we fighting to jump on?????

[@ladyredl3210]

I wrote better fanfics at 13.

[@deli5194]

no because thats so true. i weep for the young souls who will never experience the highs and lows of wattpad fanfics

[@Saphia_]

I have been saying the same thing for forever now. This gives major vibes of the books with kinda-sorta abusive boyfriends (later husbands) and kinda-sorta misogynistic MCs that I used to read back when I was younger. But even those were more digestible than CoHo.

[@kosmobound]

as a woman with hypersexuality, this is not what we needed as representation thanks colleen, as if we weren't stigmatized enough

[@bruyereb6109]

Literally .💀

[@ShadowTheCatto]

What’s hypersexuality, if I may ask?

[@kosmobound]

@@ShadowTheCatto exactly what it sounds like; compulsion to do with sex or fixation on it, impulse with it, to an abnormal degree. usually derivative of adhd, bipolar or sex trauma or a combination of the three. "It's an intense focus on sexual fantasies, urges or behaviors that can't be controlled." sometimes called "nymphomania" :D

[@ShadowTheCatto]

@@kosmobound interesting! Thanks for replying!

[@kosmobound]

@@ShadowTheCatto ofc!! ^^

[@murph64]

I’m sorry, CHARTREUSE??? Let’s ignore that nobody’s eyes are chartreuse, but that is the tackiest, most garish color I can imagine for a tie. I need to know if it’s patterned or solid, colleen. Does he moonlight as a clown?? 😭

[@thaliajones9330]

THANK YOU I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE 😭😭😭😭 I hate chartreuse with a blazing passion 😩✊

[@iamhere3939]

NAH I JUST GOOGLES CHARTREUSE WTF 😭😭 WHOSE EYES ARE CHARTREUSE 😭

[@v.t.3064]

Nooo I googled it too. It’s so gross.

[@bebebonb0n]

His eyes are either radioactive, greenscreens, or both lol

[@baishalidas2318]

idk why but when i first read chartreuse i immediately equated it to being the same color as Shrek 's shit 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️

[@Cherry_min]

Collen Hoover always makes me feel like "You know what, she made money off of this so why can't I? write that story. " 💀💀

[@Cherry_min]

@@erinp6879 Honey, I bet your writing is far greater than most! 😤

[@milojones5742]

imagine reading an autobiography and half of it is graphic details of their sex life written like ao3 smut

[@luuuuux_]

Don’t do ao3 like that. At least ao3 smut is well-written. This is on the level of Wattpad smut.

[@musicparadise3982]

Have you ever read Ao3 smut? I don’t think so.

[@hannahbull]

nauuurrr you did not just insult ao3 smut like that 😭

[@yuu_rei]

ao3 smut is the best smut. these romance writers got nothing on ao3 fic writers pls don't insult them like that 😭

[@leah-wr1hd]

colleen WISHES she could write ao3 smut

[@placefantasy1821]

Every time I feel insecure about my abilities as a writer, I remember how people eat up Colleen Hoover's writing and I feel a lot more confident.

[@withcindy]

exactly babe

[@ria.writess]

Literally me 😭

[@greenfae8138]

Sameeee

[@PichuElric]

Me with SJM's writing

[@Diana-jo1wg]

Fucking same dude

[@caura6133]

colleen hoover for adults is the equivalent of wattpad for 14 year olds

[@fxlcontalon4281]

please bruh even 14 year olds have standards

[@caeandstars]

honestly even wattpad can do better than this

[@neoqwerty]

It's more the equivalent of someone's Angelfire page from 1999 where they simp for Vegeta and all the fanfic archive they have contains is various OCs riding Saiyan prince D.

[@thenablade858]

@@fxlcontalon4281 Same quality but at least 14 year olds are teenagers and not grown women with children LMAO.

[@alex_ze_awsumyt5484]

I’ve read better Wattpad fanfiction compared to Colleen Hoover books 💀

[@marystuartmurray6122]

As a middle school English teacher, the passage where it repeatedly is like “it feels good” gave me war flashbacks to when my students can’t describe things in their writing so they just say “it was fun” or “it was good” and trying to get them to describe it any other way is like pulling teeth

[@gentleauroraasmr8562]

I'm so glad my English teacher never allowed us to read Collen Hoover back as a book project!

[@leef6961]

Cindy roasting a Colleen Hoover book? Yes please

[@withcindy]

it was bound to happen

[@drithib3755]

@@withcindy Yesss! we need more.

[@discountasian]

I've had such an intense hatred for her for no reason lately, this sated my rage

[@komaedacoffee4298]

YES please roast ch moreee

[@pastelprincce]

@@discountasian I mean your rage is 100% justified 🤭

[@amandacarballo8035]

Do I have plans to actually read this book? No. Will I spend an hour watching Cindy roast Colleen Hoover? Hell yes.

[@withcindy]

i read it so that u dont have to

[@FaniaSands]

Yes and Cindy didn’t disappoint!

[@owlthebooks]

@@withcindy We appreciate your sacrifice!

[@lifewithjown]

@@withcindy Thank you so much cindy!!!

[@soffiaoliv1884]

​@@withcindyyou're a savior

[@lindsey1412]

There's also a bonus epilogue, I'll spoil it here: Jeremy and the main girl (forgot her name) are off living somewhere else a few years later. They're on the beach with their children when the woman from the supermarket (the one cheating on her husband) comes up and finds them. They have a little conversation, then Jeremy proceeds to drown her in the ocean. And the main girl is like hmmmm... I was fine with him murdering one woman, but now that it's two, maybe I should consider running away... 🤔

[@enriquesanchez9016]

Is this a joke? Sorry but i really can't tell.

[@lindsey1412]

@@enriquesanchez9016 its not a joke 😭 if you don't believe me, you can search "verity bonus epilogue" and you should be able to find somewhere to read it for free

[@nobodysgarden9375]

@@enriquesanchez9016it’s not 💀 that really is the epilogue. She published it a bit after the books release

[@kiera6326]

I’m guessing CoHo saw people saying Jeremy should have been the villain and thought “fuck! They’re right!” Which I do honestly have respect for, even if adding onto it likely wasn’t the best decision

[@nobodysgarden9375]

@@kiera6326 LMFAO YEAH. THAT WAS MY EXACT GUESS 😭

[@TKZells16]

Hearing about her talk about her body during pregnancy makes me so concerned for all the teen girls this is marketed for.

[@Nachtmusiks]

First The Wives, Baby Teeth, now this. The main conflicts of these books could easily be resolved if these women have standards.

[@Saphia_]

There's a book called 'Baby Teeth'? Hilarious

[@waewae]

@@Saphia_Cindy also made a roast on it! I recommend it

[@Saphia_]

@@waewae Thanks for letting me know! I'll be watching that as soon as I finish this video.

[@Sasu123456789x1]

Omg I know right! Like damn, why can't they pick better dudes and make better decisions. Lol

[@galactic.cl0ud]

@@Saphia_ Do you regret watching the two parter for Baby Teeth? Because it sure was… something💀

[@exhaustedhomo7059]

colleen hoover’s books are like her horcruxes or smth - they carry negative energy, pieces of her soul, and so long as they’re out there she’ll live forever

[@sevii8993]

"She wanted his steak, and he wanted her shake," just about changed my life and I don't know whether it's for better or for worse.

[@paracosmsforbugs]

my favorite part was when verity said “it’s girlboss time!” and then gaslight herself all over the gatekeep

[@withcindy]

shes a little confused but she got the spirit

[@teacup5921]

This line was more epic than anything Verity did in the actual book

[@mori6434]

This made me laugh way too hard

[@Sheristen]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@brkh96]

gaslit*

[@talistheintrovert]

as a bookseller the fact that I have to watch this book get pushed and the store have an entire bay dedicated to colleen is my villain origin story

[@withcindy]

Maybe verity can write ur villain origin story

[@caelin3701]

literally same! i like to fight back against this by sneakily replacing her books on my store's tiktok table with better books that are still on our "booktok list"

[@FireLordMeagan]

Goddddd same. A customer once asked me if Hoover’s books were any good and I genuinely could not think of anything nice to say and just said “ehhh” 😭

[@randompromises1038]

Aspiring author here wondering how I'm gonna survive in this godforsaken market

[@talistheintrovert]

@@randompromises1038 same honestly 🙃

[@thisisabookchannel]

I'm so glad you showed actual quotes from the book. I heard it was bad but sometimes it's a difference of opinion. No, that is objectively bad.

[@withcindy]

I knew I had to pull up screenshots so y'all would see I'm not making this up

[@AM_artworks]

Okay I actually read this and the only mercy I feel is that it was pretty short. 1. Verity talking about how women aren’t actually like that with men only for Lowen to be like Omg jeremy 🥵🥵 Jeremy 🥵🥵Jeremy I need you 2. This book was so sexual. Like I’m not a puritan but I can’t get over how much they were fucking 3. She named those kids Chastin, Harper and Crew I think she hated them after all 4. The M Night Shyamalan twist at the end made an already not very good book worse. Like what was Verity’s plan? Why did she stay for so long? WHY DIDNT SHE ASK LOWEN FOR HELP? WHY WAS HER GO TO “PRETEND TO BE IN A COMA” AND HOW DID NO ONE REALIZE? HOW WAS SHE ABLE TO REPRESS REACTING TO LOUD NOISES AND PROBABLY REFLEX TESTING BUT WENT “mmm I GOTTA turn on my TV tho.” Fuck this book

[@hoaxghost3268]

legit when i heard the name 'Chastin' I was like..she named her after Chasity???

[@guggelguggel7491]

The only objection I have is that Harper is an okay name, especially compared to the other kids names, otherwise? 100% right

[@Torkel_]

mate i just have to say i hate this book because i share one of the characters names and it makes me so upset i had never met anyone with my name until i found this video

[@animeotaku307]

Might just be a Hoover thing. The dudes in “It Ends With Us” are named Ryle and Atlas

[@user-xx3nc1ws1p]

Definitely a Hoover thing. The protagonists in November 9 are Fallon and Benton.

[@jhart1127]

As someone who is autistic thank you to your friend for pointing out the outdated term "aspergers". ❤️

[@withcindy]

levi studies psychology so he's very aware of this stuff!!

[@KeylahJooste-gj8rs]

Hello! Fellow autistic person, and I swear the moment I read "Asperger's" I was so done with this book (yes I did previously try reading it myself. Pray for my soul if you have spare time, please).

[@BooksandBuns]

As a fellow psych student, & an autist myself, the reason he gave for getting rid of Aspergers is not actually accurate. It's a reason why previously diagnosed Aspies reject the term, because of Asperger himself being a eugenicist who worked for the nazis & carried out horrifying 'studies' on his group of 'little geniuses' (a.k.a autists without a delay in speech, & lacking intellectual disabilities). But the real reason is more along the lines of psychology, as a relatively new field of study, constantly developing, & psychologists coming to the conclusion that autism, aspergers, & this one other disorder (can't remember the exact name, but it was something about resistant... Uh, about refusing to follow orders basically, it's a bullshit diagnosis) are so similar as diagnoses, that it's easier to lump them all under Autism Spectrum Disorder, & simply have different 'levels' of it (which is something that still needs a lot of work. An intelligent autist like myself, who literally can't live by himself, is labeled as a level 1 autist because I'm perceived to be 'high functioning', it's absolute bullshit)

[@KeylahJooste-gj8rs]

@@BooksandBuns Wait, so is labelling autistic people by levels innacurate? Because now I'm worried I've been spreading misinformation, because I always say I have "Level 3" autism because that's what they diagnosed me with

[@fgjhham89]

​@Keylah Jooste labeling people by functioning levels is no longer done, support need levels are okay.

[@murrenkelly3866]

Books like this deserve what I call “the Twilight approach.” If you treat it as a comedy, it’s prime content.

[@withcindy]

its just too ridiculous to take seriously

[@Janncrush12]

9

[@worm2976]

To be fair I also found Twilight to be a pretty decent case study of a dysfunctional relationship, with an aetiological focus on Bella. Granted I could only make it through 1.5 books.........

[@roelin360]

@@worm2976 it's an even better case study on how religion, racism and sexism can permeate someone's writing both consciously and subconsciously.

[@Nathi98]

Unlike Twilight, I can't actually see the absurdity Cuz uh... Verity is sucking Jeremy off all the damn time

[@Moonstar79]

90% of that manuscript was her banging Jeremy so if the whole thing was just her being topsy turvy does that mean all the sex was actually bad and she was biting the headboard to cope 🤨

[@withcindy]

No she was licking the foot of the board to cope

[@Moonstar79]

@@withcindy She been licking a whole lot of things recently

[@TheLadyLiddell]

All of these problems could have been solved if Verity had just told Jeremy about the writing exercise. It ALWAYS comes down to poor communication. So many stories can be solved by just TALKING to the other person!!

[@kid-ava]

THISSS. 98% of the problems in rom coms can be solved with one conversation

[@worldeater10]

i literally told my MOTHER to read this book because i had seen some positive reviews for it. When she finished it, she looked at me differently. Now I understand why

[@withcindy]

oh no

[@Duhgel]

Lesson learned: never recommend a book you haven't read, especially COHO

[@strawberryfox8819]

Damn. Your mom was like "What did I raise? "

[@awkwardnerd.]

Go explain yourself your mom must be disappointed now 😂😂

[@shakirashipslied9721]

The disappointment of recommending this was worse than anything you could've done.

[@Kam_i_]

It’s so funny when there’s an in-universe book the characters are reading and then they comment on how well-written it is… like the author is literally complimenting herself iN her own book girl stfu 😭

[@withcindy]

She is supposedly a famous author in a world where people have horrible tastes

[@Laurengrey410]

Colleen looks like the type of girl who recites daily mantras in the bathroom mirror about how talented she is and how everyone wants to be her.

[@skullchimes]

she thought she cooked

[@yasmineguerin2852]

​@@Laurengrey410😭 stop bc i do that, when im a mess

[@gingertea3778]

@@skullchimesI’m adding this sentence to my vocabulary from now on😭

[@sconesandjam]

The main girl watched this man murder his wife and explicitly cover it up and she still thinks his wife was the manipulator, actually. Honey, get some therapy. Also the idea of someone not pulling out without explicit consent to begin with is HORRIFYING, why is it treated as romantic? 😨😨😨 Should have been called "Jeremy the Beekeeper" with all the honey traps he uses, yikes.

[@kodokuna.]

what's worse is alllll the girls at my school r making the teachers read this book and writing their papers about it. before today, I had no idea how actually AWFUL this book was. thanks for making me never look at my peers the same again Cindy

[@withcindy]

wtf kinda papers would u write about for this book

[@guggelguggel7491]

@@withcindy how not to write a good thriller? Maybe an analysis on misogyny in modern romance, or the absolute state of "dark romance" as a genre. Though knowing the average Hoover fan, probably about how ✨✨devoted✨✨ the leading man is and how its the ✨height of romance✨

[@TheotherKirby]

The girls at your school need to be jailed ASAP

[@kindateia]

Okay but if manuscript was the opposite of everything then did she uh. Hate the other twin?.. did she hate every hook up they had??? Was HE the one who bit the headboard? So many questions

[@withcindy]

So true, maybe they licked the end of the bed frame in reality

[@Paula-bu8cf]

The true plot twist of Verity is that she was pegging her husband

[@alexradjenovic]

As for Point 2 (regarding her hating hookups), she does say in the 'redeeming' letter that all the sex they had was 'to please [Jeremy]', as part of the proof that she was actually a good woman all along. So you're bang on the money. Colleen Hoover apparently believes all one needs to be evil is to be female with a libido

[@firewolfandrewb]

Maybe Jeremy was the one that hated the other twin?

[@kayladelossantos8493]

The dedication to Tarryn Fisher at the start of the novel is the most ominous thing I've seen. A masterclass in foreshadowing the quality of this book, authors take notes

[@withcindy]

ambulance sirens in the distance

[@rsmith4407]

Because I don’t know who Tarryn Fisher is, my only thought was “sounds like a toxic friendship”. 💀

[@kannot1]

I saw a tweet saying: When y'all buy badly written white books to see how bad it is, all you're doing is telling the publisher it doesn't matter if the book is well written or badly written, they're gonna make money regardless. Therefore, they'll continue to publish badly written white books...

[@withcindy]

i dont buy books, i borrow them from my library

[@neoqwerty]

Having read bad harlequin books from like the 1990s when my aunt decided to share her stash with me once I turned 18, I can guarantee you that the industry of shitty romance books has been thriving for a long time, and I would even dare say that it's been around since before it was even sold and it was just freeware at ladies' tea salon book clubs hand-copied on cheap paper.

[@ailisbergin7588]

every one of cohos books i’ve downloaded illegally “allegedly” online and read them on my phone as pdfs

[@yc3099]

Well then, booktubers like ReadWithCindy are doing us all a favor. I won't ever have to buy or borrow or read BS like this for myself since she's doing all the work for us. I can't help my curiosity but I can help grow her channel and appreciate the work she puts into these videos!

[@maddieb.4282]

To be fair I think you’re preaching to the choir here, I doubt many of us who think Coho is problematic are spending money supporting her

[@queen_of_bagels5669]

I knew that Colleen Hoover was a controversial writer, BUT LIKE HOLY SHIT. This book was so uncomfortable just to listen too. Thanks for warning everyone out here💀💀

[@satanic_nightjar_x]

The thing I find the most irritating, is that the main character has the worst double standards. She thinks Rarity is a horrible person for her story saying she drowned her child, but as Jermey (who apparently can’t do any wrong) literally kills Rarity right infront of her she is just like “we won’t talk about this again, ANYWAYS 7 months later we are very happy together .”

[@satanic_nightjar_x]

*Verity my bad I can’t read a god damn thing on a screen to save my life

[@heroicomica]

no, Rarity is great, now i'm imagining Verity as a character from My Little Pony lmao

[@shortinsomniac76]

@@heroicomica her cutie mark is a gaslight

[@manmoy4104]

NOT RARITY 😭

[@merrittanimation7721]

Man MLP is darker than I remember

[@alexinator-hh5fe]

Cindy ripping books of questionable and even problematic quality to shreds is my favorite thing

[@withcindy]

will try to do so more regularly since there are a few in queue lol

[@zoeb3573]

So she was supposed to use the manuscript where she describes having sex with her husband in detail multiple times to teach young authors to master writing? I'm good, thanks.

[@minerva9]

Cindy is really out here discovering that authors who wrote books that she hated before are friends with authors who wrote books that she hates now. It happened with SJM and it's happening now again. I guess this is the actual thriller going on here

[@withcindy]

Birds of a feather flock together

[@frankundercoverdragon6288]

The way people literally died bcus of Jeremy's dick and Rhysand's dick made the mountains shake, the lesson learned here is that if you write a book where dick gets people killed and/or injured then you'll become an instant bestseller

[@withcindy]

dick is dangerous!! thats why WLW is superior

[@ladyredl3210]

@@withcindy as a WLW gal, I can confirm.

[@Saphia_]

​@@withcindyAs a sapphic person, WLW is indeed superior.

[@shortinsomniac76]

Tetsuo The Iron Man is the next booktok sensation??

[@nathaniellk7557]

@@withcindy do keep in mind that with comments like this, it does center cis WLW and exclude trans WLW!

[@fionnafinn]

I think its funny verity says she wrote the manuscript to practice writing villains but most of the book is just graphic sex and not THE VILLANY

[@frenchgirl5878]

Didn’t you know? Women who have sex are villains who deserve to go to hell

[@frenchgirl5878]

@@hellohappyness It’s satire 😭

[@randompromises1038]

I've been thinking this 💀 even the main girl directly lampshades this by saying the book is too much about her sex life and not enough about her kids

[@jackofnotrades3320]

I feel like Colleen Hoover saw Gone Girl once and make that the blueprint for her entire writing career, and yet somehow still misses the point of the movie.

[@logical_chaos]

I actually gasped when you read the part about the bloggers in the acknowledgements. I can't believe an author would actually put that.

[@withcindy]

i appreciate that she keeps it real

[@emmisirpale]

Maybe the most irritating thing for me in this book was, that even though the main character was a writer (which I love in books), she never actually wrote a thing though out the book. 😒

[@withcindy]

LOL thats what i was thinking while editing this video. i was like wait we never saw her write even once

[@kurasuta3715]

Like what work was she even doing

[@deli5194]

we all know women cant have hobbies haha

[@jessicar2609]

Well the other writer in the book wrote like a teenager, so maybe we were spared.

[@shakirashipslied9721]

​@@kurasuta3715Thirsting over Jeremy and snooping.

[@spilledteaissadtea3037]

Wait here’s a plot hole. If Jeremy read the end of the manuscript where Varity said “I’ll drive my car into a tree” how did he not realize that the manuscript was made up when he was the one who drove the car into the tree?! Or how did he not remember his wife not choking his own daughter out?! If the manuscript was a lie how did he not remember the real time events? Shouldn’t that have him at least raise of few questions?! This book makes no sense

[@kathihearts]

right?? Or why would his first reaction be after reading the manuscript "Well, I'm going to drive my wife into a tree"

[@JuliBom]

it really makes you wonder if there's more to this story that was not elaborated, because the whole time I thought Jeremy was the bad guy and maybe it was 'his' autobiography in a twisted way (but told from a female perspective). Or maybe he read the end of the manuscript and got so mad and thought, yah let me manifest her wish then. Either way, if I was the main character, I wouldn't want to stick around with a guy when she herself doesn't know what's the truth and what's not.

[@gemdumet3125]

@@JuliBom no bc with that ending it left me craving a better-written book, a thriller in which she realises the man is obviously the villain I mean driving your wife into a tree, attempting to murder her with very little proof of wrongdoing and zero attempt at communicating seems psychopathic to me. But the ending just proves coho is demented, living in a fantasy world in which the women still somehow idolize the dick of a man who is trash and a murderer. The more I think about the ending the more pissed off I get

[@anamelchior7194]

Shame on me for letting that slide when I read the book, it's a huge fucking plot hole

[@Emily-hf9ud]

Also if I remember correctly, he was at the dinner meeting thing where they suggest to Verity this type of writing exercise to help her write from the Villains pov...

[@greenonionbabey]

I've heard people make jokes about Lilly Blossom Bloom or whatever her name is but I'm SCREAMING over the fact that acclaimed novelist Colleen Hoover sat down and went "hmm so I'm going to put this random woman in this target scene and name her husband William and her boytoy Sherman." Did she go to Home Depot earlier that day and see Sherwin-Williams and go "oh these are good character names let me write it on my baby's diaper or whatever" 😭😭😭😭😭 it's like one step removed from JKR's shitty on the nose character names, but at least CoHo's are so fucking random and pointless that it's just funny

[@d_alistair-years]

CoHo usually includes a muscular, jock-like side character named Chad or Kyle in her stories too. I’m amazed one didn’t show up in this 😆

[@vermeermarkiv4450]

"I'm writing an evil character" is such a terminally online fanfic plot.

[@depressedpigeon1257]

Ableism? In a "romance-thriller"? Groundbreaking.

[@withcindy]

never been done before!

[@weirdfoureyes413]

Weird thing I wanna say: I read a manga where a woman is given as a sacrifice to be the bride of a snake (an actual snake) god. This story is wild, but the friggin snake from this manga has more respect, kindness, and consent towards his wife, than all the friggin males in every Collen Hoover book. That really says something

[@withcindy]

whats it called

[@weirdfoureyes413]

@@withcindy It's called Daija ni Totsuida Musume or The Girl Who Married The Big Snake. I do have to warn you tho, it has explicit scenes, and she actually does "it" with the snake. But the story is strangely wholesome, and I love the characters. And there are some disturbing scenes (like mental health, s**icide, etc.)

[@eulacuteuwu]

i read that too LMFAO great taste btw

[@weirdfoureyes413]

@@eulacuteuwu Thanks, I read any manga or novel that interests me, especially the really weird ones

[@cylexia]

@@weirdfoureyes413 i love how you warned cindy about explicit content as if said explicit content wouldn’t make her want to read it MORE

[@Sleipnirseight]

Hearing from people who've given birth, doctors often give the clearance for sex WAY too soon anyway. Ain't no way she gave birth to twins and immediately wanted vag action

[@merusotajio2222]

Yeah , my mom's first kid (me) was horrible she tore her 😺 and bled for MONTHS so this is not doing it for me

[@misspopcoin2204]

The people who say "this was the greatest thriller i ever read." Clearly this book is also the only thriller they've ever read.

[@sadicalradness6927]

SORRY BUT “his eyes match the colour of the tie he shoved in his pocket” IS SO BAD

[@iamhere3939]

especially with it being CHARTREUSE??? 😭😭

[@AziTaylorsVersion4]

No bc I don’t know what bothers me more - the fact that his eye colour is chartreuse or the fact that he’s willingly wearing a chartreuse tie 💀

[@andreanikole704]

THE CHICKEN. the phone rang. i was washing the chicken. jeremy answered it. i was washing the chicken. he raised his voice. still washing the fucking chicken. he was in the hallway gripping the doorframe like he was going to fall to his knees if he didn’t. i was still washing the chicken. tears were streaming down my cheeks, my knees were weak. my stomach began to lurch. i vomited on the chicken. THE CHICKEN.

[@withcindy]

The chicken is such a deep metaphor

[@rjrastapopoulos1595]

That's some Dickensian shit. 👌

[@june756]

Everyone is saying how changing the plot will help to make this story better. But i feel even then it will not cause this is the writing style.. Like chicken bruh?

[@MsLucky1234567]

What I found interesting was that Lowen had the same characteristics she hated in Manuscript Verity. She had an unsubstantiated feeling Crew would hurt the new baby like Manuscript Verity did. She became obsessed with Jeremy & sex obsessed. she painted verity as dangerous to everyone in the house but she literally sleepwalks and could harm everyone in the house at any point. The main characters were literally the worse. Jeremy was reading lowens books but not Verity’s and after he tries to kill verity he created an elaborate scheme to get Lowen in his house. Then killed Verity as soon as he realized she could speak up. He also obviously planted the manuscript for Lowen to find since Verity left it in a box in the basement and couldn’t find it. That’s not red flags? Lowen sleeping in their bed and wearing his clothes, biting Verity’s teeth marks, specifically reading the smut scenes & reenacting the way Verity self-pleasured was all weird & unsettling. The only person who made sense & was enjoyable was the nurse who realized Jeremy and Lowen were trash

[@sadwasdead5065]

fun fact: men usually produce about a teaspoon of semen during sex. she described it like it was a glass full. edit: has colleen hoover ever had sex? why do i, an asexual teen know more about sex than a grown woman? sex usually lasts under 10 minutes! where did she get the hour and a half from! imagine doing a workout for that long, you'd be dead!

[@ottymatir7143]

LOUDER!!! not even Clark Kent could have that kind of resistance and we know Jeremy ain’t no fucking Superman

[@emryborge7027]

It’s a book, not rl

[@sadwasdead5065]

@@emryborge7027 wow thanks i didn't notice

[@gentleauroraasmr8562]

I hate how sex is so unknown these days. All these people learn about anatomy from porn. Shame, sex ed needs to be in school. Bring back logic and education about sex. WOMEN AND MALE ANATOMY NEEDS TO BE TAUGHT!!

[@katieward9701]

I genuinely do not believe anyone could have sex for an hour and a half and not be in agony

[@SocarellaDeToussaint]

I love the part in the book where Ariel calls Ursula a gaslighter and released a breathe she didn't realize she was holding.

[@withcindy]

love that they kept it in the live action

[@Dojafish]

SMJ fans be like:

[@uhh9919]

LMAOO someone needs to buy Verity one of those neurodivergent chewable sensory toys, girlypop is just trying to stim each time shes biting the headboard

[@withcindy]

NOT STIM

[@maddieb.4282]

Your mind

[@muchomango11]

Literally the only difference between her writing and Wattpad fanfic is the number of grammatical errors

[@DiscoSpaceAngel]

Namely, the Wattpad fanfic has less errors

[@najeebafarheen]

The ✨irony✨ that she is named Verity - meaning Truth is killing me.

[@taylorrobinson1146]

I feel like Colleen Hoover always chooses the weirdest names for her characters: Lowen, Chastin, Crew??? I've even heard her main character in It Ends With Us is named Lily Blossom Bloom and she owns a flower shop?? I'm baffled (also, loved the video Cindy!!).

[@withcindy]

and then theres just Jeremy

[@Aurelian369_]

@@withcindy Colleen Hoover names her characters like how Instagram beige moms name their kids.

[@arianemiranda1374]

let's not forget how Lily's daughter is called Emerson, I'll never get over that

[@tsifirakiehl4250]

@arianemiranda1374 One of the dolls in American Girl’s Welliewishers line is named Emerson.

[@arianemiranda1374]

@@tsifirakiehl4250 really?? I had no idea, in my country it’s a boy’s name and I just don’t like it anyways 😂

[@DrKeroro]

"Girl, STAND UP! Especially now that we know you CAN stand up." Had me rolling 😂

[@fathleen3441]

For being a female writer, Hoover really likes to make her female characters the worst ever. Verity and Lowan aside, Verity’s friends are so one-dimensional and remind me of fanfic characters. It’s literally like fanfic-level writing. Oh, I don’t have enough drama? Time to throw in some random bitches that hate the MC for totally valid reasons but they’re the BAD guys and have NO personality except hating Mary Sue. 😊

[@lutchien]

The emotion I felt you read "I vomited on the chicken" cannot be described

[@PokhrajRoy.]

My toxic trait in school was writing the most dark story and then being like, “Jk it was all in the imagination. Or is it?” and the times I didn’t go “Jk!” was when it was good.

[@withcindy]

omg u were the ORIGINAL COLLEEN HOOVER/TARRYN FISHER

[@PokhrajRoy.]

@@withcindyAAAAAAA don’t call me out like this

[@alabamaslammer3921]

Omg same but I noticed after 3 times its terrible 😭

[@Saphia_]

There are so many places in stories where I went "but what if, unless it's not actually" and thought I was the smartest person out there. Needless to say, there's a reason most of those stories are unpublished or just drafts (in Wattpad).

[@camillefaith2005]

You could not pay me any amount of money to read a CoHo book.

[@withcindy]

the sponsor has not paid me enough

[@camillefaith2005]

@@withcindy Lmao 😭

[@j.yang7]

@@withcindy I too would never touch a CoHo book myself so thanks Cindy for doing God's work

[@jhart1127]

​@@withcindy truly.

[@jessicar2609]

I hate read a friends copy of Ugly Love and had a great time. It wasn't nearly as crazy as this book though.

[@sophitiaofhyrule]

Verity is portrayed as a villain for hating pregnancy and not wanting kids but honestly pregnancy sounds like a nightmare, I'd be horrified too

[@mamabear1394]

Honestly That’s why you should talk with your partners about kids, marriage and pets before you get serious

[@-lightswitch-2916]

Listening to book reviewers make fun of smut books like these as an asexual is the funniest thing in the world. I like to imagine this is what it’s like for non-ace people, just constant 😭

[@trish7034]

as a non ace person, it makes my insides shrivel up, hope this helps!

[@anjisarv]

Me too, this is so funny. But also makes me feel even more confident about my asexuality 😆 CoHo’s books are unintentional allies lol

[@holy1199]

Thank you Tarryn Fischer for inspiring this masterpiece of a comedy

[@withcindy]

she will pay for her crimes

[@losemyhead419]

the whole chicken sequence just sounded like a really bad joke tbh, i can't believe that was supposed to be an emotional moment 😭

[@snoitcudorpiwik5723]

Apparently Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fischer wrote a book together too??? This is the darkest timeline

[@gregorywiederecht]

Okay, three takeaways 1. Cindy is at her best when she is roasting the shit out of bad "sexy" books. 2. While there are probably are women who genuinely have felt resentment towards their unborn children for what they are doing to her body and the feelings they are generating in their spouse, I seriously doubt they express it in the language of a cartoon supervillain. 3. I'm starting to think Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher saw Gone Girl and thought "I could write that."

[@vaishnavisingh9244]

Narrator voice: They could not infact write that

[@engelberthovel8566]

Also what the FUCK no person should ever resent their fucking children, especially when they were able to choose whether they were born or not. Just have a proper fucking medical abortion if you hate them, I don’t care how uncomfortable a conversation it would be with your spouse. If you didn’t abort them (and you definitely had the ability to, which she absolutely did), I’m sorry but you are now obligated to put them before yourself and your shitty husband. Do NOT create life that you are not willing to care for. This is why we fight for abortion rights, specifically so this shit does NOT happen, especially not to those poor kids. They didn’t ask to be born for fucks sake, and I bet if they had a choice they would rather be aborted than live through this horrifying situation. I wish I could adopt every kid that gets born into shit like this. It’s just like how it’s important to spay and neuter pets-it’s wrong to create living beings that we aren’t able to give good lives to. If she genuinely couldn’t access an abortion, she still should’ve put the kids up for adoption or AT LEAST left them to be entirely cared for by their father. Yes the adoption system has some truly terrible flaws, but it’s still better than being raised by a parent who despises them.

[@kiera6326]

The third point is so true! But like, Gone Girl is SO witty and descriptive that it lowered my own self-esteem when it came to writing because it was just so damn masterful. I read it and thought, “Wow. I’d be so happy if I could ever write like this someday!” not “I could top this easily.” And at the risk of sounding arrogant, my own prose definitely reads better than Hoover’s lol

[@Ashbrash1998]

​@@kiera6326To be fair the author of gone girl knew what she was doing lol I believe her experience from writing perceptions and the media came from her work experience.

[@hirololisuko1486]

The numerous mentions of the poor headboard have me feeling like the headboard is now entitled to financial compensation for all the damage done to it 😭😭😭

[@miaisdrawing5509]

How is CoHo a best selling author, while she basically had a “Jokes on you, it was all a dream” kind of ending, I’m-

[@loukritiablack3573]

Ah Coleen Hoover, she's just the gift that keeps on giving. And just like always I'm here going "Aw, you shouldn't have." Honestly, she manages to somehow suck out all logic. It's in the name, I suppose.

[@withcindy]

emphasis on SUCK

[@Silvermoon424]

I'm stealing the first half of your comment for later use, lol

[@ButterflyScarlet]

"aww, you shouldn't have. Seriously, you shouldn't have. Take it back. Stop it, STOP-"

[@PichuElric]

This comment made me cackle

[@JessCsBooks]

Gaslit, bamboozled, and led astray is the most accurate representation for how I felt after reading this book.

[@withcindy]

coho's brand apparently

[@zanka53]

The pedastrian who died went on to become an Isekai Protagonist

[@alexandriak7991]

I honestly hated this book. As a physically disabled person, I found it to be very ableist 💀 I hated it. And the sex scenes were so explicit and unnecessary.

[@ScoundrelChestnut]

THIS is what booktubers been RAVING about for MONTHS in 2023???? my trust issues have been protecting me all along

[@danielle7988]

some things never change like cindy immediately thinking about how furniture is expensive instead ofthinking how it would hurt when it comes to biting headboards

[@withcindy]

priorities!!

[@janettewong9900]

Personally, I was thinking of the orthodontia 😱

[@Moonstar79]

Imagine if the twist of this story was that main girl started reading Verity’s manuscript cuz she’s kind of into Jeremy but while she’s reading she falls in love with Verity Nah that shit’s not hetero enough for Colleen

[@Puriantartica]

Please do more of CH's books. Your roasting makes her awful garbage actually entertaining and digestible.

[@withcindy]

November 9 will be my next video