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Fun video! You sound like you kiss men.

Almost all her books has the same plot

27:29 that plot line would make sense if he was royalty or a politician or something, cause assassinations and abductions do happen but he’s just a random billionaire,he has enough money to make sure no one knows the existence of his child

totally irrelevant but man’s had such a glow up since the old colleen hoover videos, kinda killing it tbh

"can you mail this to my girlfriend" 😭

I don’t understand why they hit him then just stand there waiting for him to react. Like, keep hitting him!

THE TREES DIDN'T DON'T DESERVE THAT

not to mention it had 3 bad actors,,, rachel zegler, peter dinklage, and viola davis

"The Salad or Bongbird and Bakes"

If this is poetry Then Amy Schumer is the best comedian.

You what’s actually making no sense to me is how they were so sure of getting rid of any divergent they see but after the box they started looking for divergent?? 👁️👄👁️ what if the pure divergent were killed. Wouldnt they have no one to open the box andd great!! I like how nobody out of all the millions of people in there and not a single of them even curious about whats outside the wall until the message from the box lol

The Divergent will still live on as its own movie in our heart with no sequel at all!!

imagine being 31 writing 1nc3st fanfiction about a 16 year old and a 13 year old disgusting shit man

Shit i remember reading this on wattpad lmao and i was like 16 and i was scared reading this and it felt really problematic to me but also interesting idk why i use to do such things

Honestly, the first book is good. But during the second book it all went down the drain

Pls read the shatter me series . I promise it gets better

Would like to watch the video, but can't get past your fruity voice. ugh.

i read a book through a hamsters POV once. anything is possible on wattpad 😭

Super scary and super masculine exactly the opposite from you

if colleen hoover has no haters then I'm dead

colleen targets her damaging books to younger audiences. these books were in my high school's library, i was recommended november 9 at age 13, these books should come with a warning!!! thank you for pointing this out omg. i hate to see young people reading her books, being exposed to this type of content and persuading them into thinking these scenarios (such as the SA in nov 9) is part of a loving relationship. it makes me so sad truly

Why were you so funny as a teen? 🤣

I have problems with the term “romanticism of abuse” because of how it gets thrown around and watered down in fandom, but that’s ultimately what her books feature as a consequence of poor writing. Her writing style is not condusive to the emotional impact she’s going for; she cares more about writing the sex and expressing desire than she does bringing into question what that desire is based on. a lot of things in her writing are told, not shown, which is how a scene that is (presumably) meant to be about a character’s indecision and reluctance towards sex becomes assault. what happens as a consequence of this is that her writing comes off as treating the subject matter as far more simple than it is. you do not get the feeling that these characters care about each other, you know they want to have sex and that their feelings are complicated but you couldn’t pinpoint where that complication is happening or what they’re feeling beyond a surface level. you have to make leaps in logic to justify a character’s actions and agency; a good story doesn’t force those kinds of leaps. edit: i also don’t want to make the argument that this kind of writing hurts young influential readers, because teenagers aren’t the target audience of her books. they’re not YA, they’re adult, and adult audiences should be trusted in realizing not to replicate what they see in fiction. what IS a problem is when these kinds of tropes are repeatedly written and left uncritiqued. booktok has a serious problem of being unable to accept critique or do full analysis, which ties back in to overconsumption and reading being treated as a mindless hobby when it should engage your mind. yes, sometimes you just want a hallmark movie type book that’s easy to consume and react to, but that’s ALL colleen hoover fans seem to be consuming and that’s an issue when her books are marketed uncritically as romance. people want serious drama in their romantic stories, but when that drama comes off as abuse due to a flat writing style and it’s accepted uncritically it gets concerning

Who else is here after the one video?

Listen there's a lot of people who find the kinds of relationships in these books sexy, I'm not going to bash those elements. Problems come in when the writer doesn't seem to recognise that the things they're writing ARE romanticised depictions of abuse and other awful things. And also the bullshit to do with burn survivors, beauty standards, sexuality etc etc

CAN YOU MAIL THIS TO MY GIRLFRIEND

My sister hasn't read a book in years, then one day she got a copy of 'it ends with us' and finished it in only 2 days. What kind of sorcery are in these books? why is the world obsessed with them?

It's good that you were able to recognize what was bad about her books. And it sucks that people were trying to gaslight you into believing that they weren't as bad as you thought. I hope you are okay after reading that garbage.

25:03 It sounded like "Can you mail this to my girlfriend" or something along those lines to me.

15:12 caleb's most Jenny Nicholson moment

its so hypocritical to write about an abusive relationship and label the guy as bad but then romanticise those same things in another book. love your vids btw, just subscribed

I havent finished watching this video but thank you for doing an honest review of the series because there's so many people who blatantly hate on it and speak of it altho they have barely enough knowledge. All those other YT's haven't read the book so how can they criticise? Movies don't always do the books justice. I cant say much cause I've only seen the movie BUT I loved them and was considering reading the book until I saw videos of ppl hating on it. It's not criminal to get inspiration from The Hunger Games, I mean, cmon it's an intelligent and well-loved book series so why not draw inspo (as you should) and to say it's a blatant copy is not fair on the Author of Divergent as I think the idea of genetic manipulation affecting the world around us a brilliant idea (she crafts it well at the start). I think it carries very interesting concepts and messages different to the Hunger Games, only that the Author lacked more depth and In a way...so much happened yet nothing happened (at least as far as my knowledge goes). Its hard to explain it but I can't tell if they're trying to conclude that we cant be all selfless without being selfish (the importance of balance) or if they mean to say that we must demand ourselves to be more than we are even when we're not??? anyway I don't believe in genetic manipulation so it makes no sense. Anywho...it had potential but the author failed to think it through

Omg no

Sad that I brought three of her books when she was popular I will still read them anyways

18:00 🧙‍♂️: “Avada Kadaba” 😂

my headcanon about DRESSES FOR WOMEN is that it's a fake store gemori created specifically to appeal to mary sue just so he could scare her. he put more thought into what kinds of dresses to display than any other aspect especially the name/labels

I actually like the ending when I read it at 14, mainly because I was like: ohhh this author is brave enough to make us hater her. But also there's a really nice comment a bit below if you sort by recent, on how it's the truest ending for Tris. Movies were meant to failed the moment they had actors who would played as lovers in another movie, be siblings in this one 😭 Specially knowing no matter Divergent came out first (like 2 months), you cannot compete with John Green's first movie adaptation.

The last sentence of the book is not even grammatically correct 😭

I remember my SEVENTH GRADE TEACHER (English) talking to one of her students about Hoover’s books. I’m so glad I don’t like the romance genre and wasn’t exposed to that at a young age.

Hope you come back Caleb! I love your stuff!

I've never read any Colleen Hover books but I have scrolled through booktok a little bit and tbh - i don't understand at all... I see so many people on booktok reading books with 8million TW and still falling in love with the problematic guy - even with things like SA, DV, etc... Am I missing what the difference is? I don't really read romance, but is it that she is trying to pass it as normal that's the issue? Yes, I watched an entire 40min vid where someone i don't know talks about someone's book career who i also don't know lmao.

Thank you for taking the time to put your old videos public again! I've never even read a Sarah Maas book but I still find these hilarious :P

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my 105 year old great-grandma reads Colleen Hoover. i never even knew how WEIRD this author was. she literally just asked me to download a book on her kindle, im like alright. i am a ~tech whiz~ according to her, but WHAT

Anyone else waiting for Caleb to post about the new hunger games book?

I’m reading Verity and it’s been the weirdest experience ever. I usually read Sci-Fi so I tried to get a little out of my wheel house and read more female writers. I just wanted some mystery suspense that was quick to read. So far, I don’t like any of the characters lmao

😂😂😂 ❤ this review! Subscribed!

What I want to know is why nobody is talking about how in It Ends With Us, Ryle called his brother and now has anger issues. Allysa and Ryle basically use that trauma as an excuse for why Ryle abuses Lily. Like wtf? I had to reread it.

this was my favorite book review ever. hilarious. so entertaining. calling them all stupid the whole time was great. will go back and rewatch and tag my favorite moments. so funny. loved <3

I liked the book because it didn't follow what the movie did, where it was kinda "good guy turned bad," in the books he was psychotic.