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I’m almost done “things we never got over” and it took me about half the book to really care or want to keep reading. So far I’ve liked the second half lol it definitely was a verrrrrrrrry slow burn

The Littlest Library made is the one I've most recently read with this trope I think. I loved it, but I should note while their is a romance within the book it is not the main plot. I wouldn't label it a romance. It was however a wonderful read that made me tear up multiple times with the good tears and was extremely cozy. I recommend it!

I love love love love love me a good grump x sunshine. BONUS points if it's reverse where the guy is a total golden retriever and the woman is a black cat. I just finished King of Sloth, which totally gave off that vibe.

Besides fake dating/marriage, grumpy/sunshine is my favorite trope. One I loved recently that isn’t fully romance, but more fantasy romance is “Assistant to the Villain”, by Hannah Nicole Maehrer.

are you only doing romance videos now or will you be reviewing thrillers as well?

I love this! Would love to hear your suggestions for forced proximity. That’s my favorite. 😊

Reckless was my Favorite in Chestnut Springs too! Theo!!!

My favorite GrumpyxSunshine is April and Andy from Parks & Rec.

I'm going to Alaska the middle of June and bought The Simple Wild for my trip.

I honestly find Zapata’s books are too slow.

Grumpyxsunshine is one of my favourite tropes 🥹

The Simple Wild. Oh I loved that one. The parking lot scene. If you know you know. Didn’t know how the author was going to redeem him after that. The Fine Print was a good grumpy/sunshine one.

I couldnt finish happily never after even through lynn painter is one of my fave authors

But why is it wrong to write about toxic relationships? It's VERY relatable to everyday life. People dont have always healthy relationships. No one is glorifying these relationships but they are relatable. Im neutral with her but i believe its just popular to hate her.

I absolutely love both the FBAA and ASITE series. I don’t recommend them to people because a lot of people feel it’s slow and boring, and that slow, meandering plot is one of my favorite things about it. I like machinations and lots of conversations in my fantasy in general, but definitely in my fantasy romance. And at the end of the day, I’m reading JLA for the relationships and the characters and not for a super fast plot. So she can do no wrong with me. Lol. I’m the same about SJM, though her plots are generally better and more pacy. Their characters just are some of my all-time favorites. I LOATHE Colleen Hoover, though. Verity is the only book that I have read where I literally flung across the room as hard as I could, and then threw in the trash. I wouldn’t even put it in the sell/donate stacks. 😂😂 I hated everything about it, and about the way it was such an awful portrayal of women who don’t want kids. I didn’t want them for myself either for a few reasons, but I love kids in general. I’m also not a murderous psychopath. My nephew is the best thing to ever exist. I just felt like everyone in that book was awful, sick, twisted, and manipulative. Whew….I’ll calm down now. Talking about it runs my blood pressure up! I will say that I think they get talked about too much, which leads to some people hating them just because they’re popular. I loved Fourth Wing as well, but a lot of the people read it and hated it just because “there was too much romance.” In a romance fantasy novel, there was too much romance. People were judging it for being what it said it was. 😂 I haven’t read any of the others you mention, but JLA and SJM are in my comfort reading list. I had Icebreaker but no one seems to like it and contemporary is not a fave of mine. Their writing craft isn’t always the best, no, but I’m not looking for that. When I want lyrical, beautiful prose, I read literary fiction or literary crime/thrillers or classics.

I agree with you completely on Where the Crawdads Sing. I just don’t get it. I’m a bit worried because I have It Ends With Us AND Shatter Me on my shelves. I generally hate YA so I should probably just unhaul that. The big hype I don’t agree with is Fourth Wing. I hated it. Totally!! It’s like Harry Potter for adults, but the adults act like immature teenagers.

I've enjoyed a few CH books but she's not a favorite author. I enjoyed Where the Crawdad's Sing but really liked the movie. Hockey romance.......I love hockey and have been excited to see the sports romance books popping out however I'd like to see some that aren't featuring all college aged characters. I want to read Powerless by Lauren Roberts. I see it quite a bit right now.

I sooooo agree with so many of the books you named! Booktok be lying 😂

I read An Ember in the ashes because of you. I agree, it doesn't get enough attention

From Blood and Ash is so BORING, it took me 2 months to finish it

Thank you I feel like I'm the only one who doesn't like Colleen Hoover books her relationships are so toxic.

I agree about the Shatter Me series. It is intriguing that it has risen in popularity again. I dnf-ed it back in the day after the 2nd book. I don’t get the hype.

Ohhh noo, where the crawdads sing was honestly one of my favourites. I was taken aback by the imagery and descriptions. But I am a bit of a nature girly.

It Ends With Us was triggering for me. I hated it. The assaults, the rape. No thank you. I'm not sure I'm going to continue reading her books. I have 3 more sitting here.

This age likes to demoralize the males. Sure there are terrible men but there is also some fantastic husband's and father's out there.

I totally agree with Where the Crawdads Sing. I thought it was very predictable.

I enjoyed It Ends With Us, but I made sure to lower my expectations. I knew it wasn’t a romance and it was heavy on the DV. I grabbed Where the Crawdads Sing in a little free library. I know nothing about it because I ignored the hype and the movie trailers. Not in a rush to read it. We Were Liars is another book I found in a LFL. I liked it. Beauty of not being on booktok is that I didn’t know what it was.

I bought Icebreaker when it came out because I fell for the hype…and it’s been sitting on my bookshelf ever since. I’m going to put it in my unhaul pile because I have no interest in it now. I’ve learned that I really don’t care for any book that’s mentioned on BookTok, but that’s why I love my BookTube :)

Same feelings about icebreaker, so long as

Daisy Jones and the Six , hated it DNF! Oddly enough I liked the mini series on Prime 🤷‍♀️

As someone who has read most of CoHo's books (and has kind of lost interest in them all), her most popular books are heavily toxic relationships and majority of the time that's why I don't enjoy them. HOWEVER... I would say some of the ones that don't get as much hype (that I did enjoy) aren't on the same level as her most popular books. I could be remembering wrong, but I don't think Regretting You, Confess, or Heart Bones is toxic, but does contain flawed people. I will say though that I think a lot of people like reading toxic relationships because they bring about a lot of drama and tension to the story, which can be interesting to some. It's not really my cup of tea, but I can see why people read them. I also don't think we should be holding fictional works to the standard of depicting only healthy relationships because people are inherently flawed, and thus it's realistic to show both the bad and the good, but more importantly, fiction is not intended to be used as a means of life advice or guidance. And if anyone is reading these fictional books with the intent of applying the thoughts, feelings, and actions of these characters into their own personal life, then they are too young and are not the intended audience. With all that said, I do agree that none of these books are worth the hype. 😂

I thought the movie for the Where the crawdads sing was ok, i never read the book and didnt feel call to read it due to all the hype.

A court of thorns and roses. The writing is so bad.

I agree about We Were Liars, that one was underwhelming to me! I loved Crawdads though. And I’m not a big Colleen Hoover fan either but her books are definitely very bingeable!!

I hated things we never got over it was so pointless for me

Just finished Verity and no thank you! I loved Where The Crawdads Sing. And yes, I'll still continue to watch your videos. 😅 ❤

Think you need to keep going with Blood and Ash 😅

It's so refreshing to hear someone else isn't a Colleen Hoover fan. the only book of hers that I absolutely love is Ugly Love, it's one of my all-time favorite books, but the rest, I just cannot stand them.

Co No. Teens reading her books.😬

Found Blood and Ash at a thrift store. I picked it up because of the hype but haven't started it.

Funny Story is so good and Beach Read. I just put Book Lovers on hold at the library and hopefully read all of her backlist books soon. Bride was so good to read. A Court of Thorns and Roses is such a good series to read. I just got The House In the Cerulean Sea from the library and hoping I am going to like it. Happy reading!

Agree with all of these. Also, Say You Swear by Meghan Brandy. I just don’t get it. Not for me.

I agree on most of your books, those that I had read😄 For me it's sarah j maas 😂 I tried her books so many times😅 But it's not for me. Emily Henry is another author. I read three of her books. I loved Book lovers ( 4 stars), but didn't like People we meet on vacation and beach read. So I just gave up on her. I tried reading Shatter me back in the days but only read two books. I think it's interesting to see people like different things or have completely different opinions about the same book. So even if some people don't like my favorite books, I still like them😘

I still haven’t read icebreaker 😂

For me Stephen King and Lee child books don’t work for me .

Where the crawdads sing was so boring…. I could not finish it! It Ends With Us was not worth the hype at all! I hated it too but I do wanna read the second book just to know what happens Beach Read wasn’t worth the hype at all in my opinion. It was so boring to me

I don’t get Megan Miranda or Ruth Ware. I guess their writing doesn’t work for me.

Heather thanks for all your videos I really love your videos

You look great girl! Love your videos as always!

I’m at 17/51 and I’m proud of it actually going to 18 so let’s pray I can go 51 last year I did 44 which wasn’t bad