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jakejeffreyperalta · 11 months

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"books where the guy falls first" "enemies to lovers slowburn books" what the fuck is the book even about. why should i read it.

#HATEE HATE BOOKTOK SO MUCH HATE COLLEEN HOOVER HATE ALL OF THIS #anti booktok #<- btw hate booktok so so so much some books are good (even amazing) but most of them? naur #saw a girl give the song of achilles 3 stars and ugly love by colleen hoover 5 💀💀 girl are you okay is this a cry for help #anti colleen hoover #too #btw #hate her

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going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi · 1 year

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one of the most wonderful things in my life recently is my return to the books I loved in jr/high school.

I've been reading a lot less ever since starting uni, which sucks because I love books but I just couldn't get into any. I was complaining about not reading like I used to be able to, and then I realized (as much as tiktok encourages getting new books constantly) I can reread things.

specifically, I can reread books from high school. because I was reading more then for a lot of reasons, but also because I was reading things I liked, rather than what I thought I was "supposed to".

so anyway, here's some of the books I've been rereading (and absolutely tore through, this worked)

will saying you read these make people go "wow you're so dark/light academia"? no. but I read them instead of paying four months of library fines only to have them sit on my desk unopened the whole time. so I call it a win.

#i never stopped liking these books but i did forget about some of them #and lemme tell you #reading these was so much more satisfying than forcing myself through whatever booktok is currently salivating over #in order to feel trendy and intelligent #are some booktok books good?#yes of course #im not shitting on booktok #but there is a certain pressure to read *every* colleen hoover book that she churns out #its the reason i read 'the song of achilles' 'the secret life of addie larue' and 'the seven husbands of evelyn hugo'#all books i loved #but its also the reason i read 'a court of thorns and roses' and 'throne of glass'#okay maybe i just hate sara j maas (i do) but my point still stands #it was time to read things just because i wanted to #not because someone with rainbow bookshelves told me to #book recs #book recommendations #reading #reader #reading things #reader things #ya books #books and reading #books #reading list #current read #currently reading #booklr #booktok #book tumblr #readingblr

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full-on-sam · 3 months

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I have been off tumblr for a while but popping back in for a second because I have angry Toughts about Books, especially booktok.

I am so tired. When I was a child and a teenager i used to read everyday multiple times a day, i found joy and escapism in literature. Now teens have... this? Really? It makes me fucking sad. I am sure there are also many new good books out there for teens and young adults, but chance is that the people they are aimed to haven't even seen them or don't know they exist. You go into a library or a bookstore and the first thing you see is a booktok shelf. You may not even go into a library anymore because what is glamorized today is how many books you buy each month or each week. This are the books that are marketed, that are talked about. If I wanted to read some YA that is different i have to just reread old books which sure, it can be great but why can I not have any other option?

My sister has recently entered the -teens years. She doesn't read much but honestly? I cannot even fault her. If she was interested to the romance genre what should I tell her to read? This shit? Teach her abuse from an extremely young age because she is guilty of wanting to read? Honestly I feel like there aren't even books for teenagers that are actually for them. All of this YA genre is not for young adults it's for adults. Full stop.

(This also warrants a digression on how wide the ya age ange is. Google says 12 to 30, like excuse me? But my point still stands).

That's it. I hate the new book trends. I hate how to market something you have to boil it to insipid tropes, to a 20 seconds video where you slap a bunch of Pinterest images and some buzzwords. Where all the books are badly done version of themselves. As an author it makes me cry. They have so much potential and it is all wasted like this.

And that is also to say that if you do not agree with any of this, think booktok books are cool, you like authors such as SJM or Colleen Hoovers... get off my blog. Unsubscribe. This is not a space i want people like that in, thank you.

#anti booktok #booktok #trends #what are we even supposed to read

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thechaoticreader · 3 months

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10 Booktok Books I Refuse To Read (&Why)

I'm feeling a little controversial today and while I'm a microscopic blog might as well!

*Disclaimer: If you like any of these books, slay! I'm happy for you! These are just my own consumer choices, and imo negative book reviews are just as helpful as positive ones!*

1. Any Colleen Hoover

I don't like her as a person and don't want to give her money

Her writing style feels like I'm reading bad 2010's fanfics

Her plots feel half-baked and contrived

It feels like her plot twists are just there to emotionally manipulate the reader not to actually make the book better

Every twist is predictable

I've never met a likeable CoHo character

I hate reading insta-love

All of the male Leeds (😉) are toxic and shitty

The breeding kink that underlies most of her books make me very uncomfortable

The pick me "not like the other girls" attitude of the female MC's makes me hate them when im supposed to be rooting for them

thats all I can think of right now but there's probably more

If you want Verity vibes but well written, read Rebecca by Daphne De Maurier

If you want the writing style, plot points and vibes of the rest of her work but for free, visit Wattpad or Fanfiction.net or even venture further into this very site

2. Haunting Adeline

Hate the writing style

The Q Anon subplot makes me so upset...like if I wanted to hear righty conspiracy theories and propaganda i'd hang out with my aunt...at least id get food out of that

I've been in abusive relationships and I'd find this book triggering and disgusting, not sexy

3. Fourth Wing

I just feel like I've grown out of the genre (I was an avid reader during the Y/A dystopia craze of the 2000's/2010's)

hate the writing style

the world building makes no sense

bad chronic illness rep

in general not a romantacy fan

4. Sarah J. Maas

Not a fan of her writing style

Not a romantacy fan

Don't have the attention span for MASSIVE series

5. Icebreaker

I grew up in Southern Ontario surrounded by hockey boys...theres not much less sexy to me than a bunch of hockey bros

6. Hidden Pictures

its transphobic :)

7. Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

I loved the hunger games books and I'm afraid this will ruin it

8. Creedence

not into incest

don't find abuse hot

9. Cassandra Clare

not into incest

not into plagiarism

bad writing

series are entirely too long

10. The Pawn & The Puppet

bad writing

the worst mental illness rep I've seen in a long time

transphobia

badly handled eating disorder

toxic at best love interest

don't like the author

there's definitely more but thinking about this book makes me so mad

#book blog #bookblr #booktok #books I won't read #anti booktok #hater #book slander #coho hater #anti coho #colleen hoover #fourth wing

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cherries-in-wine · 1 month

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My thoughts on Colleen Hoover:

okay hear me out: colleen hoover is for the people who skipped their fan fiction phase.

Hi just a warning this contains spoilers for colleen hoover books and English isn't my first language so I apologise for any mistakes. These are just me sharing my thoughts feel free to disagree just please don't be mean about it.

So I read a few of her books because I love torturing myself and just wanted to feel something (also my cousin was obsessed with her) and honestly I don't regret it because now I have valid reason shit on it.

Just fyi I'm a teenage girl in high school so I'm definitely in her target audience, and here's what I've gathered:

None of her main characters really have a personality. they feel more like shells that the reader can self insert themselves into. The books aren't really about two people getting to know each other and falling in love it feels more as a bunch of tropes and generic scenarios thrown together. I think this is one of the reason booktok girlies act with Colleen Hoover the way I did when I found out fanfics exists.

It also just reads like fanfiction? like because there's not much to dwell on and they're so easy to digest you can finish them in just a few hours. plus the main characters just feels like y/n: a shell to self insert yourself into, dead/abusive father, just normal girl who finds herself in these situations etc.

Here's the thing about fan fiction though: the reason why it's so fun to read is because you already know the people/characters in it so you can get right into the scenarios and imagines because they don't really need any background or development.

But the difference is when you write these books you have to develop these characters and introduce them to the readers otherwise I'm just like "I don't even know these people so why the fuck would I care?"

Comparing her to fanfic is honestly an insult to fanfic writers because at least they have the decency to tag their posts properly (calling the abuse, abuse dark themes, dark themes etc) plus they're just so much better.

Colleen Hoover fans will say that she brings up difficult topics in her books in order to defend her but here's the thing: writing about difficult topics doesn't exactly exempt you from criticism + she doesn't even write about them?? they just feel like lazy add ons to spice up the story and add some drama. if you're gonna write about difficult topics you need to discuss and write them properly not just use them to further the plot.

I don't like any of the love interests either. 99% of them are just abusive, piece of shit bland boiled chicken ass people with the unsexiest names I've ever heard of.

Also a lot of these have very much women hating women undertones? I feel like it's the author's misogyny being reflected in her books (extra heart breaking coming from a woman herself). It's very much "you're not like the other girls you're different" kinda themes.

I thought maybe people just enjoyed it because of the smut but the smut is SO BAD oh my god I wanted to kms.

My thoughts are a little all over the place right now (they always are) but maybe i'll update if I remember any more points

thank you so much for reading mwah <33

#colleen hoover #bookstagram #books and reading #booktok #bookblr #anti coho #anti colleen hoover #aditi rants

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ameyareadstoomuch · 1 year

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normal people - sally rooney

summary: "Normal People is the story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find that they can’t."

personal opinions:

this book was a masterpiece- truly. i know that “booktok” has their own misconstrued and one dimensional opinions on “normal people” and on a lot of promising and trailblazing work in general, but i vehemently disagree with most points of theirs. one primary gripe that most readers online have is the book’s lack of quotation marks. i wanted to quickly address why i think this is- and why this stylistic choice is so important for the plot.

quotation marks separate the said from the unsaid. in a book where everything misaligns and aligns in tandem to the main characters weaving in and out of themselves and one another, everything can get misconstrued- reality is subjective, things are unsaid that should have been and things are said that shouldn’t have been. the “confusion” caused by this lack of punctuation is entirely intentional. it adds to the book in a deeply profound and impressive way. we don’t know what is said and thought, we see all of this from a viewer’s perspective, like it’s playing out in front of us and we’re telling a close friend about it in a coffee shop. we only get the thoughts, feelings, and opinions that the characters give us, nothing more and nothing less.

i was truthfully and naturally disappointed about the book’s ending- i hated the way it seemed incredibly sudden and cold. it was like it gave me just enough to become invested but not enough to feel content. i hated how connell and marianne never ended up sickeningly happy with a white picket fence. however, this ending was soul-achingly perfect for the book. it would be against its nature and unnatural for connell and marianne to give us anything more than “just barely enough”. it feels full circle in a gritty and truthful way. i loved this book so so much- it had me crying and laughing and changed my outlook on my life and my past connections quite a bit.

there was a review on amazon that i wanted to bring up: “I don’t understand what the plot of the book was, or what the point of the story is. I wish I could have my time back. I guess maybe that’s the point of the book? That there is no point. Who knows. Not me. That’s for sure”

i thought this was incredibly interesting because of the person being right to a degree (besides wanting my time back). they’re right- there is no “plot” in this book because it’s supposed to be heavilyy realistic. there is no climax, there is no rising action, no falling action, no exposition, no resolution, no nothing. there is nothing, it’s the story of two people coming in and out of each others lives and leaving bits and pieces of themselves behind in the other’s clutches each time they visit. it’s a story about gray areas, shared bathrooms, human connection, and painful illustration. if you want a book that offers a break from your existentialistic trains of thought, maybe stick to colleen hoover or penelope douglas instead. this book isn’t a “light read”. this book is raw and deep, incredibly nostalgic, and undeniably brilliant.

i don’t usually do this, but i wanted to include some of my favorite quotes below:

“She believes Marianne lacks “warmth,” by which she means the ability to beg for love from people who hate her.”

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”

“Being alone with her is like opening a door away from normal life and then closing it behind him.”

“Because of the white dress and because of the small white china cup, he wants to say: You look like an angel. It’s not even something Helen would mind him saying, but he can’t talk like that in front of people anyway, saying whimsical affectionate things.”

“Cherries hang on the dark-green trees like earrings. He thinks about this phrase once or twice. He would put it in an email to Marianne, but he can’t email her when she’s downstairs. Helen wears earrings, usually a pair of tiny gold hoops. He lets himself fantasise about her briefly because he can hear the others are downstairs anyway. He thinks about her lying on her back. He should have thought about it in the shower, but he was tired. He needs the WiFi code for this house.”

“He has sincerely wanted to die, but he has never sincerely wanted Marianne to forget about him. That’s the only part of himself he wants to protect, the part that exists inside her.”

#book recommendations #booktok #bookish #book review #booklr #currently reading #bibliophile #read in 2022 #authors #literature #normal people #sally rooney #book blog

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khaleesiofalicante · 11 months

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Yk sometimes I’m just sitting there… existing while gay.

And i think about how out of our league you are with your writing skills and storytelling/making abilities.

People often shit on fics and fic readers cause “it’s not real reading” and “wattpad writing” but you (and all the other amazing writers here ofc) really got us reading 500+ pages regularly. Anyways the whole hating on fics under the disguise of them being anti-intellectual thing bothers me SO MUCH SO OFTEN cause doing that is LITERALLY ANTI-INTELLECTUAL ITSELF LIKE… what?!

this is giving me war flashbacks to that interview where she said I'm overqualified fsjknjkds

But you are right.

I absolutely loathe it when people belittle other people for their taste in reading. I see this A LOT in tiktok/booktok. Like I don't read Colleen Hoover but I would not say 'people who read her books are not real readers' or some shit like that.

It's exactly the same for fanfiction.

Writing and reading fanfiction is not the same as novels or books, but that doesn't mean it's any less important.

Stop shitting on things that bring people joy 😎

#writing

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I grow thankful for the existence of tumblr each day because this is probably the best social media platform for proshippers.

Twitter does have a bunch of profiction accounts but there's still a greater number of antis who will try to start stuff.

There's some pins of tumblr screenshots and those unpopular opinion facebook memes on pinterest explaining their point of view regarding dark fiction and 99.9% of the comments consisted of unabashed "kys" and variations of "touch some grass" (one pin explained how many proshippers consume and create dark content to cope with their trauma and some guy in the comments was like "oKaY mAyBe TrY cOpInG iN a DiFfErEnT wAy" I wanted to rip out my hair).

And i shiver at the thought of what occurs on THAT goddamn app. You know the one. And I bet most of the people doxxing proshippers on there probably include colleen hoover in their booktok recs (she can write whatever kind of books she writes no hate but the hypocrisy)

There are so many others and tumblr is so much better than all of them for such a variety of reasons but mainly for the fact that it doesn't constantly spew hypocritical puritanical garbage wrapped in "woke" jargon

yeah for all its flaws I’m much happier here on tumblr

#mod erin #ask #just anti things #suicide baiting mention

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mooncrvmbs · 1 year

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here's one thing i have wanted to put out since the beginning of the colleen hoover fever on bookstagram and booktok. i hate colleen hoover. and i have legitimate reasons to do so. and now that we can all agree that her and her fans are the absolute worst, here, let me list them down for you:

the very first thing that throws me off about her is the fact that she's against putting trigger warnings in her books because "they give away the story". as an author who writes about such triggering topics like assault and abuse, putting a trigger warning is possibly the bare minimum you can do for your readers who may find such topics triggering. not putting them doesn't make your story any better, it just makes you an asshole.

her books are targeted towards young adults. let me explain. i am all for dark romances with morally grey protagonists. but only when they're targeted towards an adult audience, who know how to differentiate their fantasies from real life and not let a mere book sway their morals or beliefs. but her audience is a mostly a group of teenagers who have no idea about the real world. making them read about such blatant romanticization of abuse is so fucked up. which brings me to the next point.

she glorifies abuse. and before you tell me that i have not understood her point, try to look at it this way. her male protagonists are immensely toxic. which is fine. for most part. i have read and enjoyed dark romances with pretty fucked up protagonists. i am not against it, if it's done well and done so for an adult audience. not 13 year old girls. let me elaborate, yeah?

it ends with us, her most popular novel, ends with the female protagonist lily forgiving her abusive husband ryle and divorcing him, all the while pressing no charges against him. he literally tried to kill her, in case you're wondering.

in november 9, her female protagonist ends up with the male protagonist who has been stalking her for years. there's also a scene in the book where he literally thinks about physically tackling her to the ground because she was leaving him. sorry? what?

and then there's ugly love. if i could put my hatred for this book in words, i would. trust me. the male protagonist literally is hung up over his ex for like 85% of the book. he says his ex's name in bed, while having sex with the female protagonist. and she continues to pine for him and expect him to reciprocate her feelings after all he's done to hurt her.

would i hate these as much if they were targeted towards adults? maybe not. they know better than to let these influence their lives. kids don't. and her target audience is kids. literally. somewhere, some kid rn is reading her books and thinking that this is what love is like. that love is supposed to be abusive and pining after the person who hurt you. as an author, one should know about their impact and influence. they should know how much media affects kids. but clearly, hoover doesn't. and i am not surprised.

when you write these, you're telling an entire generation of kids that it's okay to accept abuse as a form of love and forgive their culprits and that's not okay. you're not only fucking up an entire generation of kids, you're invalidating the trauma and sufferings of victims who actually took actions against their abusers.

you're teaching kids to not report their abusers and instead fall for them? sorry? this is what we've come to?

there's this particular line in her newest novel 'it starts with us', the sequel to her novel 'it ends with us' that shook me to the core:

when ryle hurts lily again and lily runs to the love interest atlas, he tells her to report her ex husband. and this is the conversation

you let your abuser go without any reports against him and now that he's back to doing what he always does, you're surprised? honey?

this man could go and repeat the same shit with some other woman after you. how would you deal with that? and you know whose fault it will be? yours. cause you never took any actions against him.

and that's not even the worst of it. this story is inspired by hoover's own mother. there's so much more hoover could've done with this trope. been a voice for domestic abuse survivors. but instead, she chose to do this.

if you are a victim who's in a toxic relationship, please seek help. you do not need to romanticize the worst parts of someone. it's okay to accept that some people will never change and it is not your duty to change them. if they wanted to, they would. you're not a rehabilitation centre.

and i am not even gonna point out the fact that she writes like a 15 year old on wattpad or that she's under fire for silencing the person whom her son assaulted.

i was here to point out her wrong beliefs and morals that she's propagating only cause she has been given a platform by kids and now i am done. so i will leave lol.

and before you come at me for writing this, i hope you never have to go through the horrors of abuse.

here's a video that i found on youtube that gave me the urge to finally write this:

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thank you for reading!

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jakejeffreyperalta · 11 months

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whenever i talk about why i hate booktok and the way it has popularized these short trend cycles and started promoting books (badly written books) with these milked out specific tropes, one argument i always hear is to let people enjoy what they want without being a snob. the thing is, if someone geniuenly wants to read a book to pass time, i don't care. but when i see people reading classics and very good modern literature and put those books on the same level as a colleen hoover book... that's the issue. the issue is not about people who read low quality books because they have time to kill. it's about people who read the low quality books and promote them like they're not, only just feeding more into capitalism. i really can't dictate what people read and why they read it, but the fact that there are so many people reading books because they're popular and not because they geniuenly want to read is really concerning to me. "but once this blows over all of these people will stop reading books!" BUT THEY'RE READING THEM RIGHT NOW. THATS THE ISSUE. they're reading these books right now and that's why colleen hoover has sold more books than the fucking BIBLE. the fact that you see these people hyping up badly written books with repetitive storylines and three dimensional characters (who are mostly white and cishet) and trying to pass them off as "modern classics"... it just gives me the ick. i do not care about someone who picked up a random colleen hoover book because they had 2 hours to kill and wanted to do something that will give them a sense of accomplishment. but i do care about a HUGE chunk of the internet reading and promoting colleen hoover despite knowing the fact that these books are problematic, and continuing to act like they had an impact on society when they did not. im NOT being a book elitist or a snob when im saying this but some books are not only extremely problematic and harmful, but they're just not GOOD BOOKS, and people should opt to read literally anything else. reading is literally always a hobby, whether you're reading a colleen hoover book or a jane austen book, and like it or not, reading is something that will ALWAYS leave an impact on you. yes, people should be allowed to consume whatever media they want, but how much can they be allowed to consume before it starts to hurt people?

#sorry for the rant had an argument with my sister and she called me a snob for saying nobody reads for reading anymore #i agree that not every book needs to have meaning and symbolism and sometimes it can just be for fun but like #majority of the books are turning into that i fear #the fact that people are willing to buy an enemies to lovers book because of the trope and the guarantee that it'll be a 'spicy' book #is honestly concerning #nobody is reading to read anymore i fear #oh btw #anti booktok #anti colleen hoover

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fridayiminlcve · 1 year

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I posted 4,867 times in 2022

That's 4,867 more posts than 2021!

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I tagged 1,472 of my posts in 2022

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Longest Tag: 139 characters

#at least im not in 6th grade but like. why ar the teachers so terrible my mom is genuinely thinking of making my sister pull out next grade

My Top Posts in 2022:

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happy she's got you mesmerized while i die saturday to those who celebrate btw

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anyway HI its me nike ur fave boymutual fuck this fuck the fact that i ahve to make this post but. anyway tumblr deleted my accoutn for apparently no reason and i am physically crying. if u could pls reblog this then that would be great

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what is your problem with tiktok or booktok and colleen hoover lmao its not that bad surely

the fact that it actively promotes overconsumerism, the way it sells books to you by just playing into already heavily milked out tropes with very specific character niches that are seen in every book nowadays and how the reading is just seen as something aesthetic or a part of the "it girl routine" maybe? if those are enough reasons for you?

does the fact that these books are the first things you see when you walk into a bookstore not bother you? when you ask someone for a book recommendation they'll follow it up with "its a romance slow burn enemies to lovers". it's always about the aesthetic of the book, how many lines can you take out of context and post as a compilation of your super cute romantic annotations page on instagram. no analyzing the book, no theories, no symbolism or meaningfulness at all. how people stand reading those kind of books and still feel any kind of emotions over these flat as hell books with no world or character building is genuinely baffling to me

no one seems to know about actual literature anymore, which not to sound like a boomer but i think its definitely true. there's always been trend cycles, i agree such as the harry potter craze from the 1990s to the 2000s and the dystopia hunger games/maze runner/divergent blast in the early 2010s but tiktok has just.. shortened these cycles so much. as a result, people like our darling colleen hoover whose written around 46 books since 2015 (according to google) try come up with as much fresh content as they can as quickly as possible for the readers (see overconsumption). the fact that this lady outsold the bible is not outstanding to me, its fucking concerning.

and after all that, the result is badly written books with characters who're about as dimensional as a piece of paper, overuse of tropes, read like they've been written by a toddler, toxic-ass relationships being romanticised, very unnecessary sex scenes and countless other things. seriously if i wanted to read about the kind of stories hoover tells i would just open a wattpad account.

this isn't to say that all booktok books are terrible. i'm trying to highlight some of the flaws i find in authors like colleen hoover, emily henry, taylor jenkins reid, ali hazelwood, sarah j maas and elena armas. some of their works are quite decent :) six of crows, thsoeh, tsoa, circe, daisy jones, where the crawdads sing etc are some books which i think everyone has heard of if theyre active online which were actually nice reads. also i am BEGGING u to reach out of your comfort zone and read something different like non-fiction or fantasy or one of the classics for once if you only read booktok like seriously it might be hard but just do it for the love of god!!

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sunflowerharrington · 2 years

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Get To Know Me Better - Tag Game

I was tagged by @friendly-neighborhood-ghoul, my love <3 Thank you for the tag, babes! (i also added some bc why not)

Relationship Status: Single, not looking for anyone. TaKeN bY jEsUS my ass. Mentally dating Billy Hargrove, however.

Favourite Color: Baby blue and baby pink, pastel colors.

Favourite Food: (I have never been so tempted to say ‘ur mom’ than I am right now) Chocolate Ice-Cream.

Song Stuck In Your Head: TBH there’s like 20 songs going on at once right now but I have to pick one. Betty by Yung Gravy (he’s so hot for what omg).

Favourite Song: it’s basic to say Running Up That Hill right now so I’m not gonna. It Wasn’t Me by Shaggy.

Last Thing You Googled: How do I become Joseph Quinn or how do I make myself famous and likeable to date him (no results showed up lmfao :()

Time: 7:48PM

Dream Trip: My dream is to meet my best friend, @will-byers-is-my-boyfriend at some point in my life. ❤️

Last Book You Read: Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover (no, I haven’t finished it, I just started it).

Last Book You Enjoyed Reading: Steddie Fanfiction. No it’s not a book but shush I don’t follow rules.

Last Book You Hated Reading: Harry Potter. (Because JK Rowling wrote them.)

Fun Fact: I have heterochromia iridis! Which basically means my eyes are different colors to each other. My left is mostly brown with a tiny bit of blue and my right one is fully blue. Another fun fact both of my eyes were blue until I was 4, oh how I wish to be that age again. And at least I didn’t get surgery to look like this, Sarah McDaniel.

It’s bonus time!

Favourite thing to cook/bake: I love love love making homemade pizza! I also transform into Gordon Ramsay when I do which is a blessing in disguise cause he’s an icon.

Favourite crafts/things to do in your free time: Painting, drawing, writing, thinking of fake scenarios, watching booktok compilations, reading steddie fanfiction, specifically x reader smut with the both of them (and billy, and henry, and mike, and—), makeup, oh bestie omg I watch Love Island too (all hail king davide and queen ekin-su) and Drag Race.

Most Niche Dislike: People. No literally, like I actually can’t be around people for long. I want to be around people but I just can’t. I have self diagnosed but that’s the only way to do it cause it’s so hard ti get a diagnosis. It’s called Misophonia and literally every single sound triggers something in my mind. It’s horrible. I hate it so much. My thirteenth reason why. Also I hate my facial structure cause it’s lopsided :(

Opinions on The Circus/School (same thing): I went to school for 14 years, never again. I got bullied over something I couldn’t control and that ✨traumatized✨ me, but it’s okay I got over it.

Do You Have a Sense of Direction?: Kanye West. One Direction. Up & Down by Vengaboys. Kate Upton. The entire Cha Cha Slide song. YES. Actually no, I get lost very easily.

Tags: open for everyone!! <3

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madisonbeersource · 2 years

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oooh! talking ab booktok, i read it end with us n i was so disappointed. like i didn't get all the hype over it (or basically collen hover books). did u read it? rn im reading a little life and the heroes of olympus (rereading)!

omg i loved tsitp! the soundtrack was amazing. i think steven is underated. so now i must ask u, team jeremiah or conrad? i also watched heartsopper, it's so cute. personally im currently watching gilmore girls, b99, and never have i ever 3 (it just dropped today).

have a great day!

It ends with us .....I loved it, but because it was very clear to me that is it NOT a romance novel, it's a book about domestic violence, about how by either being the perpetrator of abuse or the one letting the abuse happen can destroy the one living with you because lily ...as strong as she wants to be in a healthy rls, she falls for the boy who had the same red flags as her own father and it broke me because we saw the downfall, we had hope ryle would be stronger than that but yet he r*ped & abused her & she saw it coming, the worst is in the end she saw the signs & she ignored it & SO MANY OF US do that bc we wanna believe, we wanna be loved. and the fact that lily was the representation of colleen's own mother & that her father was abusive like wow... no this book is a masterpiece BUT booktok romanticize it & it's sad bc it's a book about abuse, yes atlas is the cutest book boyfriend but honestly it's not what people on this website claim it is :/ like the end of the book says "You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore" like you can put down the fight, you're safe. LIKE????? WOW OKAY KILL ME NOW?? but i'm a colleen hoover's stan...i read several of her novels & honestly exept "Too Late" that I didn't like because it's a dark romance and I despise this genre i mean no worries to those who read it but i hate it w my whole heart but actually my first new romance book was from her and i think i never had my heart broken like this book it stays my favorite book & i always get teary eyed when i speak about it haha (sorry i'm a passionate type sdfgfds) but YES I DID READ IT ENDS W US & I read recentely we were liars that is SO POPULAR on there & honestly i liked it a lot!! i'm reading a emma green right now and it's HILARIOUS those womenn are literally the best!!

YES HONESTLY it's a cute show!! well steven kinda got on my nerrves tbh... like he's the first to denigrate belly cause she has "no life" but everytime she tries yet she does something he mocks her and yells at her, he makes out w belly's bff bc he was "insecure" about his current gf, and he knew about about it & yet he took advantage of it. He gaslighted at poker losing every pennies he owned sacrificing shayla's dream dance LIKE NO HE WAS ANNOYING MOST OF THE TIME sdfghgfd. AAAAH... hm for belly? i'd say Conrad cause they were in love for the longest time, she never looked at Jer the way she does w Conrad and he is an ass....like a real ass but I also understood that he knew of his mother dying from cancer and couldn't tell anyone so it was eating him alive like if the guy iloved was going through that i would have forgiven him sooo i'd say conrad BUT for me I had to admit that Jer IS REALLY CUTE like the golden retriever type and i like a man like that for me, the type i could die laughing with you know? & i love the fact he's so at piece w his sexuality you know?? and his eyes.......WHEW. Heartstopper is literally the cutest and i love this show SO MUCH!! ooo never watched those shows it's not my type even tho b99 has some banger scenes!!

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readerlou · 2 years

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hiiiiii, new books alert!!!!

i may or may not have had a lil book splurge on the works, because i just couldn’t resist it. and because retail therapy is the best kind of therapy. so i thought i’d let you know what books i decided to buy. bear in mind i am trying to branch out from my normal reading taste, which was supernatural and crime related novels :)) so the books i got are…..

where the crawdads sing by delia owens ~ i have heard so much about this and there was the hype over the new movie version of it, but i wanted to read the book before i watched it. the novel has both romance and mystery, so i’m so excited to read it!!!!

november 9 by colleen hoover~ i have kinda fallen in love with this author and her writing style. i was hesitant to start reading her work at first but now she is one of my favourites, so i had to pick up another of her books

the love hypothesis by ali hazelwood ~ this is an extremely popular romance book on booktok and i wanted to know what the hype was about. it is in an academic setting and there is fake dating and a dash of enemies to lovers apparently (which is one of my fave tropes)

the soulmate equation by christina lauren ~ again, i have heard amazing things about this book on tiktok so i hope it lives up to my expectations. it is another romance novel (yes, another) and it is based on two people finding out they are compatible through a new dating app.

the hating game by sally thorne ~ i have high expectations for this book. apparently it is one of the top recommendations for enemies to lovers books (aka my fave trope). so i has some pretty high expectations to live up to in my mind.

nothing more & nothing less by anna todd (two separate books) ~ i saw these two and apparently they are spin-offs from the after series, which i love so i was very intrigued. supposedly they are a sweet and romantic book series.

obviously, i will review all these books after i read them and share my thoughts. when i eventually get round to reading them because the amount of books in my physical tbr is actually ridiculous.

- lou <33

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arrynzek · 2 years

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2 and 19 of the book ask!

uwu i'm so glad someone asked.

2) top 5 books of all time?

God, idk how to even answer this. Like is it my favourites? the ones that had the most impact? the ones I reread all the time?! I might go

1 - Captive Prince trilogy

2 - Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

3 - The Foxhole Court

4 - Honeygirl

5 - I can't decide, so it will be either Six of Crows or something by V.E. Schwab

19) most disliked popular books?

I generally don't like contemporary so there are so many big booktok books that were contemp romances that I couldn't stand. Particularly anything by Colleen Hoover.

I also really really hated Fangirl. I only read that because people seemed to love Carry On, which I also read and hated. I felt like nothing happened for two thirds of that book, and when it finally started to pick up, it ended. Couldn't stand either of them.

Oh, and I'll Give You The Sun filled me with so much rage I hated that one a lot.

And I stopped reading the Throne of Glass series because it started heading in a direction I hated, but I don't know if that counts because I haven't actually read them.

#THANKS AGAIN FOR ASKING.#no one ever asks me things bc i never know how to respond but this was nice

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bookhighlightss · 3 months

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My rant on Colleen Hoover

I absolutely hate her. And if you think you can convince me otherwise gl. Bcs she is a shitshow and her books are a disrespect to the booktok community. If you call yourself a book reader and say you read coho.....dont call yourself a book reader. You're a disappointment to the booktok community.

First of all let's talk about the no.1 reason why I hate her so so so so so much. An account on Twitter said that she was graped by coho son but then coho fans came at her so much that she had to pvt her account also coho never spoke about these rumours when she or her son couldve come right out and denied those if they weren't true. Rumor is that coho paid money to shut this down and the girl never got justice.

Google it if you want

Next up her stories are pure shit. And coho fans are crazy and they can't take criticism.

Like look at people saying her books are shit and they are.

Also for some reason that woman likes to have her fmc be oppressed before showing their power which is crazy. Majority of her books have sa and oppression against women but it's all validated bcs the MMC is pretty and rich.

A website said this btw.

Her books are basically smut smut smut and nothing else. If I read her books I'd believe that love is lust. There are other ways of showing that a person love someone and it's not necessary to fill a book with smut which is one thing I hate most in books these days bcs they're always filled with so much smut it's annoying. Like we get it. Y'all had sex. But we do not wanna know that. Also coho plot is usually shit. And the obsession with atlas corrigon like fuck Outta here. He likes lily when she was 15 and he was 18. Ik 3 yr age diff is not a lot but it was the mentality difference and how she was still a child ( I consider 15 yr old kids yes. ) So atlas obsession is not validated bcs it's ew.

But yea thas it I'm done with my rant if u agree with me then reblog and if u dont..scroll. idgaf about your opinion and don't even try to come out and defend the sa rumours.

#colleen hoover #book review #books #booklr #book blog #it ends with us #atlas corrigan #tw sa mention #book recommendations

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