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Why does Coleen Hoover get so much hate
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Apr 24, 2024 09:04AM
Why does Coleen Hoover get so much hate? Just curious
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I think because she is mostly romanticizing abusive relationships and toxic masculinity. I mean that's what I understand from booktok and some of the reviews here never read her books before.
because she somehow made taking ur ex's else's name during sex ok she also mentioned that a child have "big balls * is funny
aaand it is ok to stay with someone who backhanded u because u laughed when they got hurt
I find her idea of romance strange. I read It Ends With Us, and I’m not exactly the sensitive type, so rather than offended I felt the book was laughable for its idea of abuse and love. Clearly her childhood misguided her picture of romance vs abuse as well as her outlook on abusers.
she's overrated bc her writing isn't that good . she's also romanticised abuse . made a book w a romance between a 15 Yr old and 18 Yr old . wrote a scene where mc and her husband laughed after they had there child bc he had "big balls" like his father erm tf
I think because she write about abusive and mostly toxic relationships where the girl always stays (except in It Ends With Us) but Coleen was also in an abusive relationship and maybe she just want to write about it and tell us that we are not alone or I don't know. I don't really like Coleens' books (November 9 just ruined everything) but she's not a bad author just a bit weird ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
i guess it all started when her books became so mainstream. she was once a beloved author, but once her books became so popular, some readers pointed out that her books weren't that good. i think the hate started in one of those "hot takes" about authors on twitter, and then the hate train was established. others found her books boring and trash, but others just joined the bandwagon/clout lmao. But there were also issues about her being problematic, but I don't want to delve deeper into that... and also, some readers saw her ISWU release as money-grabbing.
Ahana wrote: "Yeah I was curious too... I think haters are misinterpreting her message she wants to convey. I don't get the point that where she is romanticizing domestic abuse or toxic relationships. In my opin..."I'm not much of a coho fan, but yeah, I agree. I just don't understand where these ppl are coming from when they say that IEWU romanticizes abuse. it's the other way around. if it's romanticizing abuse, then she'd have made lily stay with ryle and not end the cycle, but SHE DID. It's a good message for young girls and women not to tolerate abuse and disrespect. It also depicted the horrors of being in an abusive relationship and the complicated feelings that come with it.
honestly her writing isn’t all that good and her plot lines are very similar in terms of what she has written but she also makes weird comments and romanticises weird stuff like ‘our sons big balls’ just throws me off
i think her writing is easy to follow if you’re new to reading but starts to feel very juvenile if you’ve been reading for a while. i still enjoy her storytelling but can’t sit through a whole book anymore because her writing feels like a high schooler could’ve written it at times. not saying this is a bad thing but i think a preference thing :)
i think it’s the romanticised abuse and overall the way she writes in my opinion… it’s just not good writing but everyone has their own opinions. i read her books when i first started off on booktok and i enjoyed them at the time but looking back.. no ✨
Ok, I'm here because I want to share my opinion. Personally, I don't like Colleen Hoover, I tried to read Verity and Ugly Love but those were both DNFs for me. Her books romanticise abusive relationships, assault, and other things that just shouldn't be romanticised. There's no LGBTQAIP+ representation and that upsets so many people. To me, CoHo is just pure smut. You can say that about of Romantasy books too but AT LEAST SOMETHING is going on. She writes without purpose to me, no plot line.
I think she does a lot for shock value and it doesn't feel authentic or necessary to the stories. Although I'm not a fan I do think her books are like gateway books imo. Like once you read one you're like "I know there HAS to be better out there"
I read one book but before I did that I warned about her book content not to do so and honestly reading that one for me was enough to say I am good no longer need to contribute endorsing her, she's not for me and it sad because alot of impressionable are drawn to her books, the topics regarding romantizing abuse and toxicities is fine in books for a specific storylines but if that's all you write there is a Huge problem with that. All she writes is unhealthy storylines . Most young people can't identify what is and what isn't healthy especially if they are impressionable and haven't had awareness or discernment. All her books are just one tone. Not here for her 90% of her writing. It is unsettling.
I guess because her book became popular into a younger age group of readers who can relate to her creations. It's not a typical boy-meets-girl kinda story. It talks about series of issues concerning romantic relationship.
I haven't actually read one of her books but I've read excerpts from many of them and was not into the content nor the writing style. Also the same reasons I will not read the 50 Shades series. I think that C.H. just has a writing style and sometimes content that doesn't work for a lot of readers.
I loved it ends with us and it helped me get out a slump (as messed up as the book is), but after reading ugly love, it kind of clicked, she makes books that usually center toxic relationships (with lots of smut), similar to those bad boy books on wattpad that we used to love as teens roughly 7-8 years ago, but for an older demographic.
Oh my god finally someone started this thread. Thank you so much for this. Reading her 3-4 novels (not many because I found her books little overrated) I think I am in a position to say this that some people just wanna hate others because everyone is doing that. I for the life of me don't understand that why people criticise IEWS by saying that it is promoting abusive relationship when in reality it's doing the opposite. I think half of those who are saying that, really haven't read the book or they didn't understand the simple idea behind it. Relationships are complicated, and the kind of past that lily had, she was more traumatised with what she had to go through with Ryle and hence she took time to leave him. Did she stay with him? ....NO!! For the sake of her child she left Ryle. So how does it promote abusive relationship, I really fail to understand. When I first read IEWU I did not like the book because of bookstagram that went crazy after that book and i personally found it mediocre. But suddenly I noticed coho getting unnecessary hate, if you don't like her books, don't read it. I don't. Some just want to join the clout to spread hate against her. About her other books, there are literally million books out there which are romanticising abusive and very toxic relations and behaviours but I don't see anyone saying anything about those authors. All I am saying is that don't read books you don't like, but hating on an author is something I can't digest. Ps: I did not like her other books, but I loved Verity.
