Book and Movie Review: Exploring the Marketing and Controversy Surrounding Colleen Hoover’s Works

I don’t judge anyone for what they read, like let me just preface myself by saying that for the most part, for the most part. If you enjoy Colleen Hoover and you enjoy Colleen Hoover books like that is cool, I’ve never been one to enjoy them, but I like a lot of other like really super girly, kind of like stereotypical book talk books, so like take my opinion with that. I just wanted to say personally I’m not surprised at all about how the movie is being marketed right now because the book was marketed like that. I read the book not early on into its publishing, I believe it was published in like 2016, I read it in 2021, but I read it when it was just first starting to get hype, at least starting to get hype outside of the book community. I’ve always been like in the book community, but now this is when it was like the general public and I thought, oh, I should just finally read this. And the book is literally marketed as a romance. The book is marketed as like a kind of more emotional romance, but it’s not marketed as like a DV book and that’s what it is. This was my first experience with Colleen Hoover too, like I had not read anything else she’d ever published. I was excited to read the book. So I’m not shocked at all that she’s now doing the same thing with the movie. I don’t like the book. I don’t like the movie. I think they’re both done badly, but it’s also not on me to speak about other people’s experiences again. So I’m just saying the minute this movie was announced, I knew it was going to be a trainwreck. And here we are. Here we are. Thank you, Ellen DeGeneres. Dory, just keep swimming, you know.