Exploring the Insane World of Colleen Hoover (Part 3)

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Exploring the Insane World of Colleen Hoover (Part 3)
Hey guys welcome back to the channel!!! sorry this took so long LOL long story short the original plan was to have this video cover both November 9 and Verity by Colleen Hoover but after rejigging things a bunch i realized it just wasn't going to work, the books are too different plot wise and it felt super clunky so instead I'm only going to be covering Verity today and November 9 will be saved for the actual final part lol. Verity was definitely the book I was the most interested in checking out beyond It Ends With Us because usually when I talk to people who have read her books before, if it's someone who doesn't like her work but they have an exception, it's usually Verity. On top of that Verity is different from every other book in Colleen's backlist since it's a Thriller/Romance hybrid instead of strictly Romance. I love thrillers so if we're looking at it genre wise, out of the five books we're reading throughout this series, this one was most likely to be one I'd enjoy.
I definitely have mixed feelings on it (as you'll see in the video) but I can understand why people find this to be her best book, it's definitely the most.. "exciting" plot wise so far. Also, I'm sure at the beginning if you haven't read the book you're going to kind of be confused on some of my opinions on the characters but I swear it'll make sense at the end lol. As usual though if you've read Verity I'd love to hear your thoughts, whether you loved it or hated it! If you enjoy the video feel free to give it a like and subscribe it really helps me out but otherwise I'll see you in the comments :)
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@caseyaonso4270 5 месяцев назад

yall im hearing theres a bonus chapter??? my copy didnt have it im so annoyed 😭 apparently (im going off what ppl have commented until i can figure out where to read it lol) it ends with jeremy getting exposed tho like ok touché miss coho touché….

@Ashbrash1998 5 месяцев назад

It's on reddit in two parts

@necronival 5 месяцев назад

Someone posted the whole thing on their insta story which was an EXPERIENCE for me to read 💀

@Taylorswiftsleftarm13 5 месяцев назад

Girl, I just have to let you know, I was genuinely tweaking hearing that end. I need to discuss this with my therapist 😭

@Kermitt_thee_frog23 5 месяцев назад

Someone posted the chapter on reddit. I wish I could unread it bc it's was so unnecessary.

@katie-allen 5 месяцев назад

You should definitely read Rebecca!! One of my favorite books of all time. It has all the nuance and depth and moral ambiguity that you were hoping Verity would have. And Daphne du Maurier’s prose is so eloquent and a real pleasure to read. The audiobook narrated by Anna Massey is also excellent.

@b8376 5 месяцев назад

back when i knew nothing about colleen, i saw a tiktok claiming that verity was a really good psychological thriller. i went to a book shop the next day but it wasn’t in stock. the universe was protecting me🙏🙏

@PoppyOxymoron 5 месяцев назад

Omg I’ve heard that too!!!

@gracebooth1472 5 месяцев назад

i think i saw the same tiktok cause i bought it for that reason 😭 but i never read it

@b8376 5 месяцев назад

@@gracebooth1472 the universe also had your back😭

@Maiasgameroom 5 месяцев назад

The book is bad

@sakareeh 5 месяцев назад

“There are no accidents” - “Master Oogway”

@abigailg6586 5 месяцев назад

New fear unlocked… The mental image of seeing fuzzy baby monitor footage of a person who is supposed to be in a coma scrambling around is fucking terrifying. I’ll give her that

@starilee3811 5 месяцев назад

that was a jump scare for me too!

@elliananan638 5 месяцев назад

colleen hoover spent more effort describing AN ANT in this book than she spent writing any of her romance dynamics

@malg8514 5 месяцев назад

What gets me is the fact that she even messed that up. Almost every ant you see is a female and yet Colleen kept referring to it as a he- lol

@lisalolz-dgaf5860 5 месяцев назад

@@malg8514 oh god 😭 when she said "he" the first thing I thought of is that she should've said "it" instead since it's not even her pet, coupled with this??? coho is truly the gift that keeps on giving

@emuanon34 3 месяца назад

@@malg8514 Does this mean that Flick from A Bugs Life is trans masc?

@cocopuff-muncher 3 дня назад

it’s giving thanksgiving dinner

@magventures 5 месяцев назад

i heard “not her aunt, an aunt,” and i thought, ‘ya that’s weird, just talking about someone else’s aunt with no context,’ and then actual ant footage popped up on the screen and i loooosssstt it

@OxyMauron 5 месяцев назад

That was my thought process too.

@PistachioGold 5 месяцев назад

Saaameee 😂😂😂

@penidk 5 месяцев назад

😂😂😂

@GlitteredGoose 5 месяцев назад

Same

@quenepacrossing4675 5 месяцев назад

Same 😂

@rolanslide8509 5 месяцев назад

I will never, and I mean never, get over the fact that Colleen made the catalyst of her meetcute a deadly car accident. "His eyes are chartreuse ☺" girl you just saw a mans head explode under the tire of a car.

@louschwick7301 5 месяцев назад

holy crud, i completely forgot that in the midst of all the insane crap in this book. and what the hell did it have to do w literally anything else in this godawful story

@sophiedegoey20 5 месяцев назад

Ok but with no context aside from this video I assumed that the plot twist was that JEREMY wrote the manuscript and planted it, that he was the real killer, and that he'd try to use the book to paint himself as the victim. The way it praises him for literally everything seemed like something a narcissistic abuser would write about themselves. So pissed that the real twist still rewarded Jeremy despite his behaviour ugh

@g00chi 5 месяцев назад

I thought the same thing. Unfortunately that would've made too much sense.

@sh0shkabob 5 месяцев назад

THANK YOUUUU I thought this was the twist as I was reading it as well! I really thought it made more sense than the actual ending tbh. Like I thought the fact that Verity was supposed to be good at writing antagonists would make Lowen be like “oh it’s bc she actually DOES think like this!” It makes zero sense that in order to display her writing prowess, she fully writes an autobiography like that

@AnonYmous-en7op 5 месяцев назад

Oh that would have been a legitimately good twist.

@cosas_de_gatos 5 месяцев назад

Casey even mentioned that the intimate scenes sounded like they were written by a man 👀

@barbararab6390 5 месяцев назад

Yeah, I mean, the way the autobiography acts like Jeremy is god's gift and ceo of sex just makes me think he wrote that

@BlancMint 5 месяцев назад

So what’s with her insistence that women who don’t want kids, who May struggle mentally, are like clinically insane?? She used to be a social worker no? Im scared

@youruncleolaf4694 5 месяцев назад

she used to be a WHAT

@avshields6235 5 месяцев назад

@@youruncleolaf4694Colleen Hoover used to be a social worker. I know a few bad ones because I work in behavioral health but none of them have written any smutty books as far as I know lol.

@justlola417 5 месяцев назад

She did???? Oh that's terrifying

@kiara23422 5 месяцев назад

This is what my parents think when I say I really don't want children

@funtime15u 5 месяцев назад

Like said before the other books without context is "He's a creep, and she's in heat."

@lance.7124 5 месяцев назад

... please i cannot be the only one who is aggressively disturbed with this whole concept. two mentally deranged people killed an innocent woman just because she created a realistic meta-ish method writing. like out of all of the books she ever wrote, this disturbed me the most. it's disgusting.

@gwyn2151 5 месяцев назад

Also the fact that they are actively the most ableist people ever.

@tttgggccc 3 месяца назад

It's very dark, yeah. but what gets me that it sounds like Lowen and jeremy are never written AS deranged and disgusting, not on purpose. Hoover tried to make them the good guys who made a mistake. if she wrote Lowen as specifically a morraly bankrupt or at least morrally grey woman then it would feel way more purposeful. jeremy should not be congratulated by the narrative and Lowens actions should not be seen as a virtue

@renu_7890 Месяц назад

I agree

@lanihood1334 Месяц назад

Idk I’m not bothered

@awetistic5295 Месяц назад

@@tttgggccc And the she tried to retcon it with that "epilogue", probably because there were too many negative reactions.

@tyler-df3wy 5 месяцев назад

The overt ableism in this book always infuriates me. Like Lowen is just constantly making herself scared of a disabled woman, doubting her disability, and hating on her and we’re supposed to like her. And she turns out to be right! If someone said even a fraction of those things about my disabled mum, I would actually be in prison

@Ashbrash1998 5 месяцев назад

I feel like it would have been even better if like Lowen was totally wrong about it all. That she actually was disabled and Lowen had just killed her or set it all up. Making it very obvious that Lowen is the villan in the story

@tyler-df3wy 5 месяцев назад

@@Ashbrash1998literally! It’s supposed to be a thriller/mystery but the twist is so weak. How’s it a surprise that Verity was lying about her injuries when Lowen has been convinced of it pretty much from the moment she met her

@thoopsy 5 месяцев назад

Hi! I just got here, this is the first time I've heard the plot of this book. THIS is the good one?! The one where a woman is murdered under the pretenses that she has a disability and it was "an accident." 1 billion red flags from just the snippets here, thinking a disability is a good punishment makes you a bad person, Lowen. Also, murdered Autism rep is basically my least favorite kind. You DO NOT taunt people with mobility conditions to try and see if they're "faking." That's messed up. You are an irredeemable protagonist. Let's explode Colleen Hoover's typewriter. Together.

@tyler-df3wy 5 месяцев назад

@@thoopsy this isn’t even the only book of hers that ends with a disabled woman turning out to Not Actually Be Disabled and being murdered by her cheating partner because she’s evil Spoilers but her book Layla is about a woman who has brain damage after being shot, but it turns out she’s actually being possessed the woman who shot her. The other woman, Sable, is vilified for having an eating disorder and other mental illnesses, and the real Layla is actually still really happy and quirky and completely unaffected by being literally shot in the head. It ends with the main character drowning Sable so Layla can repossess her body, and of course he’s completely excused by the narrative. It’s actually horrifying and not for the reasons CoHo wants it to be

@moonstone___ 5 месяцев назад

@@tyler-df3wyyou left out the best part, that BEFORE the boyfriend knows the ghost possessing her is his real girlfriend, he has a full blown affair with the ghost including non consensual use of the body.

@Ashbrash1998 5 месяцев назад

I feel like this book would have been ao much better if she had just made Lowen the villan. Like she was so obsessed with Jeremy and wanting to take over Verity's life to the point she was trying to convince herself that she wasn't actually disabled and was a monster. It would have certainly added a sense of irony for the bonus epilogue chapter, where Lowen thinks she's got it all but realized that she just made her prison. Just imagine if the diary was actually a rewritten version of Verity's writing alluding her abuse by Jeremy that destroyed her mental health and made her post partum worst. As well as explain Crew's behavior being related to the trauma he was enduring.

@caseyaonso4270 5 месяцев назад

is there a link to the bonus chapter?? my copy doesnt have one in it this is the first im hearing of it 😭😭

@Luciferith 5 месяцев назад

To me she's also the villain, the whole time while i was reading it i was thinking ''she's just as bad as Verity'', and she doesnt even realize this, and apparently neither does Colleen Hoover. and actually i even think the father sucks too, he's terrible, literally everyone in this book is horrible but apparently Lowen and the father are supposed to be the good guys?? Ok, Colleen. Also, Crew is the worst name i've ever heard in my life, of all the traumas this kid experienced and its going to experience by being raised by Lowen and the dumbass father that i can't even remember the name, this was the worst.

@lackofcreativity9883 5 месяцев назад

Funny how Verity is an author who writes stories with antagonists as main characters and Colleen doesn't take the chance to do the same with Lowen

@oliviahilton2770 5 месяцев назад

This is almost the plot of The Housemaid which is so similar to Verity anyway

@zodiac.alien. 5 месяцев назад

Something that really pissed me off, is how Verity is going through postpartum depression and it's just written as something that a"evil" women would do. Let's think about it, Verity had these kids that she didn't want to have (and tried to abort HERSELF) only to get left at the house all day with them, by herself, with no help. Like parents are already stressed when it comes to having their first child, she had two AND her husband wasn't even around and expected her to be able to do everything by herself, with (and I can't stress this enough) NO HELP! My heart goes out to anyone that is a Verity situation (or similar), like I can't even coho because What.The.Hell was this

@EspiritoDeDafne 5 месяцев назад

He is also so judgmental when she says she doesnt want to breastfeed the babies and basically guilt trip her into doing it

@reix7494 5 месяцев назад

you’re so right, it pisses me off too

@justlola417 5 месяцев назад

While she was reading this part I couldn't help but feel sympathy towards Verity like? Jeremy seemed to be her whole life, to the point she felt hollow when he traveled, so she probably didn't have ANY support system around her, nobody to tell her he's an asshole

@JassenValentinovNede 5 месяцев назад

And on that note, I just realized the words "We both laugh at our son's big balls" are permanently imprinted on my frontal cortex. ❤

@statesofgracie 5 месяцев назад

oh gosh I don’t remember the first two parts but we never skip a casey video so here we are

@katie-allen 5 месяцев назад

Same I was like okay wait did I ever watch the others? Should I watch those first? Then I checked and I did, I guess I just blocked the horror of that information from my brain. So anyway, time to settle into watching part 3 🥰

@wolf-gh2dz 5 месяцев назад

i will never get over the fact that lowen is super unsettled and convinced of verity's evil nature before she even reads about her hurting her children - like, verity is going through actual real life symptoms of pre and post partum depression severe enough that she self harms to try to induce a miscarriage, and that, on its own, before anything else, is meant to be taken as evidence of verity's sick and twisted true nature. colleen hoover gives off such strong prolife vibes its unreal. not to mention the shit lowen (and the other characters) think and say about a chronically ill disabled woman before ANYTHING happens

@Ashbrash1998 5 месяцев назад

And Lowen is supposed to be the good person on the book. I almost wish the book had made Lowen the true villan trying to take over Verity's life.

@wolf-gh2dz 5 месяцев назад

@@Ashbrash1998 and its like, colleen just going all in and making a villain protagonist would have been an actual engaging turn, way more than the twist of "this mentally ill woman was evil and also faking being disabled"

@Ashbrash1998 5 месяцев назад

@wolf-gh2dz It would have been mire interesting and make it stand alone from the Rebecca comparisons too. And if you add the extra chapter, even better. Lowen basicslly took over Verity's life and realized that she just made her own prison.

@gabbie5950 5 месяцев назад

the prolife vibes EXACTLY.

@FrumiousMing8 5 месяцев назад

Lowen also reads in the manuscript that Verity became convinced one of her toddlers was conspiring to kill the other one. That is like a full-on delusion, not something someone in their right mind would think. And yet Lowen is like "Verity...evil!" Like Lowen please, this woman was clearly mentally ill, why you acting like she's a mustache twirling cartoon villain???

@bunny_koo 5 месяцев назад

“If we’re coming up with nicknames than his name is Jerm now because he’s a disease” i died 😂😂😂

@itsgiobaby 5 месяцев назад

This book would’ve been 50% more redeemable if the end was just Lowen realizing she was stuck with this dangerous man she actually didn’t know at all and implied she’d go down the same path Verity first went through with him 🤷🏽‍♀️

@jamesgames9804 5 месяцев назад

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@sugasnaps 5 месяцев назад

I feel like that was important to mention... thank you

@BlackFiresong 3 месяца назад

The part where Lowen goes from being horrified by the content of the manuscript to stealing one of Jeremy's shirts was so jarring.

@ilovetaylor2169 5 месяцев назад

wtf…..I 100% believe Verity. She deserved better. Colleen Hoover try to disguise your internalised misogyny while writing challenge: level-impossible No but seriously, why does all her books involve the male protagonist cheating on their current partner…..it’s very weird.

@Futurebound_jpg 5 месяцев назад

Its a fetish that insecure women have. They like to “steal” taken men away from their partners because its “proves” that they are better than someone else, that they are worthy of love, of being a first choice, etc. Truth is, a man who’d cheat would probably cheat with anyone lol. Theyre not special bc someone left their gf to get with them. Its a really negative coping mechanism for bad insecurity

@userabby17 5 месяцев назад

The craziest thing about fans of colleen hoover's books is HOW I repeat, HOW did you miss all these obviously terribly things in her books. Verity for example, our main couple are literally having an AFFAIR, the guy is cheating on his wife who is in a coma. And the worst thing is, I think no one cared because Verity is supposed to be the villain, and is disabled which says so much about coho fans, which also makes sense I guess. Even lines in the book you may forget later on sure, but in the moment how the heck do you read "I've never wanted to use physical force on a girl before but I want to hold her down and keep her there until the cab drives away" (in Nov 9) and not even slightly question it???

@levilore_7126 5 месяцев назад

ive seen people recommend her books and was considering reading it ends with us a while back but when i watched this series i was like HOW her writing is SO bad and like the sex scenes are all the same and the relationships are just abuse. like i love romance books, i read smut books, and there are so many actually good books that arent just abusive relationships that tell people "oh ya this is a good relationship and they love each other" like WHAT

@mittag983 5 месяцев назад

@ville__Now copy my comment

@rashelreyes1880 5 месяцев назад

I’m pretty sure I’m supposed to be Colleen Hoover’s target audience, a Teen-Young adult (I’m currently in high school) over the summer of last year I tried to read “All your perfects” (the only reason I chose this book was because it was purple and I just love purple 😭 plus I needed a purple book to fit the color coded aesthetic I had going for my book shelf) I just couldn’t do it, by the time we got to the part where the main male character and the main female character forgive eachother after reading those long long long letters I just gave up. I’m sorry did he literally not cheat on his wife? Like she was having fertility issues or something like that no? Like he just cheated on his wife who was like kinda breaking down and after reading a few pretty words written YEARS ago all is fine and dandy? 💀 ummm…yeah it was so frustrating that no one throughout this whole book (well most of it anyway gave up pretty much almost at the end) opened their mouths and tried to y’know communicate. It’s so interesting how Colleen has such a huge fan base and so much popularity, I guess I understand why to a certain extent but her books just honestly read like published wattpad books and I’m fully convinced these books that are liked by people who are not teens/young adults just never had a wattpad era and this is them pretending they are so much more sophisticated just because the book is physically published lol. It’s a bit concerning that girls my age read these kinds of books and I say this because I’ve physically seen girls around my school carrying “It ends with us” and “Ugly Love” and reading it IN CLASS, it just does not give me a good feeling that they are consuming books like It ends with us and think that what’s happening to the characters is ok

@oneinathousand2156 5 месяцев назад

“Kinky Goldilocks” killed me lol

@rachellopez609 5 месяцев назад

the fucking picture of the sitting horse was TAKING ME OUT😭

@alimiller3976 5 месяцев назад

[!!SPOILERS!!] This book is crazy. At first i was like, "Wow, maybe this will actually say something poignant about post-partum depression and women feeling obligated to have children." and then they just... murder Verity in the end. And her obvious mental health crisis is never brought up. But i guess Colleen has already outed herself as anti-therapy sooooo Sidenote: No way people are gonna look at how many "accidental" deaths happen in this family and believe theyre actually accidental.

@SilentProti 5 месяцев назад

I watched quite a few videos about this book and now I'm confused, I understood irl Verity was actually happy to be a mother, the depression in the manuscript was part of the exercise. But Jeremy did accuse her that she told Crew to hold his breath, so she did kill harper? Or was that actually a misunderstanding and she just failed to save harper, idk anymore

@sopranoshelley 4 месяца назад

@@SilentProti I think they explain it as she did tell Crew to hold his breath but the boat was already capsizing and Verity held immense guilt over only being able to save Crew and not Harper.

@tulip135 5 месяцев назад

let's collectively take a moment to thank casey for these videos because I wouldn't be caught dead reading a colleen hoover book but god damn am I curious

@gwyn2151 5 месяцев назад

Same. I love theses videos.

@karenthomas1456 Месяц назад

I actually have Verity in my audible list. I’m not reading it after watching this. I’d much rather watch these reviews than read any of her books.

@obrien92 5 месяцев назад

i love that colleen hoover just names her characters ANYTHING

@khushbooprasad6519 Месяц назад

Makes me happy as a writer because if she can getaway with it, so can I hope to

@momomorton647 5 месяцев назад

Pause. In the diary she whispers to Crew to hold his breath and Jeremy confronts her about it later. Wouldn't Jeremy know that that confrontation between them never happened?? Also her first words out of the fake coma should have been "the manuscript is not a diary, it's a writing exercise." She had enough time to think about it

@alwayssmiling32 5 месяцев назад

how is her watching someone get run over by a car relevant to the rest of the story? that is such an insane way to start the book! like she could've just spilt coffee on herself or something lol

@whatalsaid 5 месяцев назад

I was confused why Casey didn’t know what Steak & Shake was, but then I remembered that she’s Canadian, and also Steak & Shake is VERY much a midwestern thing.

@m.josena4485 5 месяцев назад

Sometimes I forget not everyone is from thr Midwest haha😭

@leeh4669 5 месяцев назад

I’m from California and I don’t know what Steak & Shake is 😭

@whatalsaid 5 месяцев назад

@@leeh4669 it’s ok. The first time I visited California to see some cousins, they asked me if I wanted In & Out and I said “in and out of what?”

@GeographyPal 5 месяцев назад

@@whatalsaidgenuinely made me cackle

@iciecube 5 месяцев назад

i thought steak and steak was everywhere

@snailcorn7480 5 месяцев назад

forever traumatized by the time i accidentally read Verity thinking it was gay One Direction fanfic and only realized later that it was Colleen Hoover with the names and pronouns changed

@amityislandchum 5 месяцев назад

Wait wait you have to tell us which character each band member was!

@snailcorn7480 5 месяцев назад

@@amityislandchum i haven’t been able to find the fic now, but as far as i remember Louis was Lowen, Harry was Jeremy, and Nial was the literary agent boss guy

@tyler-df3wy 5 месяцев назад

My best friend’s a huge fan of Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier and I told her that Verity is basically a Rebecca ripoff and she got so pissed that she got Verity and read it all in a day She’s stronger than I could ever be

@thatcher6923 5 месяцев назад

It’s funny because if Colleen is on the side of the protagonists… then she missed the point of Rebecca. We’re supposed to find the fact that Maxim gets away with cold blooded murder because of his class status awful. The protagonist is meant to represent how subservience in marriage will result in unhappiness and crossed moral boundaries. It’s a book about repression and the masks of high society. It wasn’t even written as a romance lol. The protagonist is basically treated like a dog by her husband (something that is actively pointed out by the book).

@ghostrobots 5 месяцев назад

what's rebecca about?

@sylviacorvalan7716 5 месяцев назад

@@ghostrobots It’s about the marriage of a young woman with an older widower and how she’s insecure about living on the dead wife’s (Rebecca) shadow. It’s really good!

@marymccomish 5 месяцев назад

right at the beginning of the video i was wondering why the plot sounded so familiar and then it hit me ... i read a one direction fanfic on AO3 with the exact same plot

@rachael5025 5 месяцев назад

which one was the wife in the coma

@marymccomish 5 месяцев назад

@@rachael5025 I’m pretty sure she was just a random woman in the fic lol

@lawlesslucyliu 5 месяцев назад

Someone else commented about this, so sorry they tricked y’all

@snailcorn7480 5 месяцев назад

OMFG YOU TOO!!!! oh my god i’m so happy someone shares my pain

@marymccomish 5 месяцев назад

@@snailcorn7480 I tried to find it after watching this video but it’s either hard to find or was deleted 😢

@FrumiousMing8 5 месяцев назад

There's an interview clip with Colleen where she says she left it intentionally vague for the reader to decide if Verity was lying in the manuscript or not but then went onto say that in her mind Verity is evil. Which is sad to me. Manuscript Verity is obviously unwell. She's clearly not her right mind (having the delusion that her baby wants to kill her other baby) and yet she's treated like a full-stop villian. It's baffling to me.

@nospoonfulofmayonnaiseforme 3 месяца назад

ikr she needs medical HELP not to be killed??? she's like paranoid n stuff

@haranodo 5 месяцев назад

i work part-time at a bookstore and one of my (ex)coworkers told me verity was a serious, great psychological thriller. trusting his words, i recommended it to everyone who asked me for a thriller. needless to say, after i realized how it actually was, i felt i deserved to be fired

@AnonYmous-en7op 5 месяцев назад

No but I don't know how people recommend the novel seriously - its just pr0n ????

@mewmew6158 13 дней назад

@@AnonYmous-en7opif you just wanted smut with an eh plot around it, then it IS an ok recommendation. Saying it's a good thriller is laughable.

@calebhamlett 5 месяцев назад

casey it’s 10:45pm rn i can’t do this… (i’m doing this)

@caseyaonso4270 5 месяцев назад

iM SO SORRY 😭😭😭😭

@yeoldegeorgemac 5 месяцев назад

this is just a shitty version of Rebecca for the kind of women who get into fist fights in TJMaxx over Rae Dunn mugs

@theeleanorshellstrop 5 месяцев назад

lmao now it’s over pink stanley cups

@fatimam9975 5 месяцев назад

What’s the book with Rebecca called

@goshberyy 5 месяцев назад

@@fatimam9975the book itself is titled rebecca. it’s by daphne de maurier. verity is a cheap copy of it in my opinion

@goshberyy 5 месяцев назад

finally someone said it. i always thought verity is a rip off of rebecca. while the twists in rebecca were actually shocking, verity is just underwhelming.

@thanatoast 5 месяцев назад

Now I'm just curious to see if the Big Balled Baby will ever be referenced in another book. Like, maybe in the news they talk about the car crashed and the girl who's name I can't remember says something like: "My baby with massive testicles fell into the water ;-; i am so sad :(((((("

@bunny_koo 5 месяцев назад

I believe her name was “oh my god, Rachel.” His stepsister but also his girlfriend 💀

@tiale1994 5 месяцев назад

Will they make him float?

@ia490 5 месяцев назад

@@tiale1994 STOP 💀

@g00chi 5 месяцев назад

I'm scared of how often children seem to get hurt/die in Colleen's books and they characters are just so unaffected or worse, horny?? I really hope she's not a mom irl.

@realestsienna 5 месяцев назад

yeah she is 😭😭 her own son had sa allegations & she dismissed the girls who called him out and made them seem like liars so… there’s that

@777aether 5 месяцев назад

i know its a minor part of a video but anyways; chartreuse is kind of like a lighter olive green. its actually a kind of alcohol. but either way he either has radioactive green eyes or dooky eyes so thats fun

@eureka7876 4 месяца назад

Why couldn’t it just say green? Ugh, I hate when writers write color like that, in an effort to sound deep. ✨Chartreuse✨Respectfully, f off. Why do I have to google the color🙄?

@eureka7876 4 месяца назад

Why couldn’t it just say green? Ugh, I hate when writers write color like that, in an effort to sound deep. ✨Chartreuse✨Respectfully, f off. Why do I have to google the color🙄?

@eureka7876 4 месяца назад

Why couldn’t it just say green? Ugh, I hate when writers write color like that, in an effort to sound deep. ✨Chartreuse✨Respectfully, f off. Why do I have to google the color🙄?

@tanyatokareva1873 4 месяца назад

Chartreuse as an eye colour really acts as the first warning sign for the kind of book you would be getting into, because out of all green/yellow shades how is that the one you go for

@mahekshah2175 5 месяцев назад

upon second read, i realised that most parts in verity were just there for shock value. Just to get one gasp out of the reader to keep them hooked until the next gasp, like u said, this book have no reprecussions whatsoever of the events that followed after a major event

@alwayscommenting56 5 месяцев назад

upon SECOND read??? i deleted that book out of my audible the second i finished it 😭😭would never have the energy to do a reread

@mahekshah2175 Месяц назад

@@alwayscommenting56 i read that book as a teenager, so yes I registered some of those shock values as- "wow this is so clever" so when i read that again in the same faith u can imagine what happened next

@emmaclare9066 5 месяцев назад

I was about to go to bed but now I'm gladly letting Casey ruin my sleep schedule

@caseyaonso4270 5 месяцев назад

🤭

@1800PAlN 5 месяцев назад

@@caseyaonso4270 problematic fav behavior

@zuhoist 5 месяцев назад

the tyler oakley reaction video dkjfkd

@tyler-df3wy 5 месяцев назад

Feel like Verity should have just hidden the manuscript under the floorboard while he was off meeting Lowen. Probably would have avoided a lot of problems that way

@dotcom3015 5 месяцев назад

Casey explains Verity couldn’t find the manuscript

@tyler-df3wy 5 месяцев назад

@@dotcom3015 iirc wasn’t it in her office? Coz I mean Lowen found it on her first day at the house so it wasn’t super hidden. She should have had more than enough time to search her office, especially since Jeremy doesn’t go in there a lot so he wouldn’t notice it missing. Plus CoHo says she thinks Verity is evil so she definitely has a motivation to keep the evidence hidden

@dotcom3015 5 месяцев назад

@@tyler-df3wy I can’t really explain the characters logic, but at the end of the video Casey describes verity’s letter where she said she was pretending to be immobile until she could find the manuscript and leave

@tyler-df3wy 5 месяцев назад

@@dotcom3015 that’s what I mean though, I believe Jeremy was out of town for at least a day when he went to meet Lowen because he had a hotel room and a change of clothes, plus the two of them leave her alone in the house two different times and she locks them in a room for a night. She likely would have known Lowen spends most of her time in her office, and I’m pretty sure she just leaves it in a random drawer so she definitely has time in the story to tear the place apart if she really wanted to find it As always her plots just fall apart when you think critically about them lmao

@sully888 5 месяцев назад

Hello, I made a Colleen Hoover bingo, for the next time you read one of her books The colleen hoover bingo: prot lets love interest take advantage of them sexually Love interest is openly aggressive Strange and awkward dialogue Love interest is violent Romanticized sexual assault Love interest threatens violence Love interest has a rough / mysterious past Prot seemingly has a backbone, but chooses not to use it Books ends with a “happy” couple Love interest makes prot cry unhappy tears Cheats, or thinks abt cheating, or show clears asf signs that they’re cheating Love interest is a stalker / has stalked Broken (messy) storyline Character with stupid/strange name overly emotional/dramatic writing Greatly resembles / is comparable to a wattpad story

@purplelily7764 5 месяцев назад

Don’t forget someone is pregnant or becomes pregnant. Child somehow acts smarter and dumber than their age. Male love interest has some sort of traumatic backstory that is used to excuse him from his abusive behavior.

@sully888 5 месяцев назад

@@purplelily7764 Always the love interest with a traumatic background that makes everything ok 😭

@anshisingh6206 5 месяцев назад

"She may have no yolk, but you have no shame" better worded than the entire book

@loraelizabeth7580 5 месяцев назад

Better twist idea: Jeremy killed the daughter and wrote the manuscript (revealing that he was the one who actually hated the daughter) to frame Verity. Then you have added suspense at the end that Lowen is stuck with this psychopath. Or in the bonus epilogue he mysteriously dies as well.

@trashfire7474 5 месяцев назад

my fav natural blonde is back

@caseyaonso4270 5 месяцев назад

EXACTLY EXACTLY…

@trashfire7474 5 месяцев назад

@@caseyaonso4270 rosé is calling…she wants to know your secret

@nickneime_ Месяц назад

@@trashfire7474genetics 😌

@awfulq 3 месяца назад

the most disturbing thing in this book fr is the part where lowen bites over the teeth marks in the headboard 😭 girl that was unhinged behavior

@sarahpozzuto3530 5 месяцев назад

i’ve been WAITING for this one, my book club made me read this book and i unfortunately have not been able to forget it

@thoopsy 5 месяцев назад

Hi! I'm so sorry.

@lauraprior9157 4 месяца назад

I can’t stop watching this review video. Everything in there is so golden. The crazy plot? Casey’s witty remarks? The editing job?? JERM?? I love it all. This is one of your biggest hits to me Casey

@starglaze- 5 месяцев назад

i love colonizer hoverboard slander 🥰

@benadrylcucumbersnatch9401 5 месяцев назад

Can I just say, as an autistic person, that the way Harper was written was super fucking insulting

@bunig000 5 месяцев назад

yes!! thank you

@slutfortttt Месяц назад

And the way collen made it a point to repeatedly call it asbergers instead of autism

@Lytarium 5 месяцев назад

Love the fact that CoHo fans are like "omg, which side do you choose? the manuscript or the letter", girl both of them don't even make sense!!!

@atomichearts9332 5 месяцев назад

people who have colleen hoover as their favorite author (ahem my mother in law) freak me out BADDD… like i love hearing about her stuff but i can’t imagine reading it, let alone reading and thinking “omg i love this romance!”

@heljay4956 5 месяцев назад

"We used to go out to eat all the time before my sisters died." This is probably the most telling thing to me about how little Coho seems to think anything through in her work-- Crew doesn't seem to have any hangups or grief over his big sisters, no thoughts of his own, it's not even clear whose side he's on. He tells Lowen that "Mommy said not to do x" but also facilitates many of the "romantic" development scenes in the book; nevermind whether or not Crew is or isn't smart enough yet to maybe keep his mouth shut when Mommy's trying not to get caught out faking a coma? Even if he isn't, he's otherwise way too accepting of Lowen and her relationship with his dad. At five years old, he's not a person to Coho-- he's a plot device, used to express just how Gosh Darn Great certain characters are/aren't, and more importantly neither he nor his sisters are spoken of as if they're Verity's children. She birthed the damn kids! But they're exclusively treated as *Jeremy's* seeds, *his* demonstration of how wonderful he is. Also, for supposedly being such great parents, apparently none of the adults in his life have learned to keep him away from knives when he constantly hurts himself playing with them. Apparently the minimum threshold for good parenting in the mind of Coho is "the child is still alive and has not been murdered by Me [the parent], specifically". I know the bonus chapter reveals Jeremy's just a serial killer anyway, but that does *not* absolve the probably-secretly-otherwise-innocent Verity, nor our ableist protagonist Lowen. Side note, I love how every person who looks at these books always finds something new to say about the wild stupid bullshit in Coho's work, even if they pick out a few of the same passages.

@tanyatokareva1873 4 месяца назад

I'm glad you mentioned Rebecca, I was thinking about this book the whole video. Colleen's book is even named after the now-out-of-the-picture wife as well lol

@ladydiamond6611 5 месяцев назад

*Colleen Hoover Books As Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Songs:* All Your Perfects - We'll Never Have Problems Again It Ends With Us - Sex With A Stranger November 9 - Hello, Nice To Meet You Verity - After Everything You Made Me Do (That You Didn't Ask For) Ugly Love - I Love My Daughter (But Not In A Creepy Way) Without Merit - Maybe She’s Not Such A Heinous Bitch After All

@amityislandchum 5 месяцев назад

Holy fuck this is perfect! 😂 (Okay, admittedly I don't know what "Without Merit" is about, because none of the Booktubers I watch have reviewed it yet.)

@jessicabowers4811 Месяц назад

I loved this book in the way people love reality tv… it’s a guilty pleasure but also brain rot😂

@nathaliadesouza8411 5 месяцев назад

Been incessantly checking this channel for MONTHS waiting for part 3 let's gooooooo

@tsoon 5 месяцев назад

off topic omg your lippie looks so good

@caseyaonso4270 5 месяцев назад

thank you!! its the tarte one in honeysuckle 🤭

@annegrey3780 2 месяца назад

As someone who *has* read Rebecca, but has not read any Colleen Hoover, can confirm that as you were describing the plot my first thought was "this sounds like a poor man's Rebecca." Colleen Hoover literally just read Rebecca and was like "what if we did this again...but worse." Rebecca is...ok. I feel like it's one of those books that probably made a much bigger impact on readers back in the day than it does today....in fact when it was adapted into a movie they literally were not allowed to depict the actual plot of the book under the Hayes Code, so it literally did depict a level of moral complexity you didn't see (on film at least). But I feel like it started or at least popularized a lot of tropes that now have become so common that you sort of see it coming....for a thriller that makes it a little hard to appreciate.

@Yourmusedm3 3 месяца назад

The book has an extra chapter in collectors edition where jeremy kills a neighbour lady just because she identified jeremy and lowen at a beach . And covered up the death and convinced lowen that whatever he did it was all for them as a whole family . He moves on without any guilt .

@GlassChopsticks 5 месяцев назад

your bangs look amazing in this video i am insanely jealous

@amityislandchum 5 месяцев назад

Dude I couldn't stop staring at them! They look so good!

@brendanowicki3821 5 месяцев назад

It’s like a bad version of Rebecca with a bit of Jane Eyre thrown in for good measure

@dillpickle-no9hl 5 месяцев назад

I have to do a type of journaling thats similar to what Verity was doing as part of my OCD treatment, so this book is lowkey terrifying. I think I'm going to start putting a disclaimer on the top of all of my entries that says "THIS IS A VERITY SITUATION!! This is for therapy and none of this is true, so if you're a weird writer chick that's moved into my house and is trying to steal my girlfriend, don't use this shit as justification for killing me" lol

@anomaliecosmos 5 месяцев назад

The twist of "Mentally Ill Person wasn't actually doing Known Therapy Exercise, they were EVIL and confessing their REAL CRIMES! Those intrusive thoughts weren't their brain running overdrive and out of their control trying to upset them, they were their REAL INTENTIONS AND DESIRES!" horrifies me on a scope greater than just this story...

@dillpickle-no9hl 5 месяцев назад

@@anomaliecosmos Omg yes that's exactly how I feel. Between this, the "Verity isn't actually disabled" plotline and the weird comments about autism, this book just really gives me the ick.

@Snowfoxie1 Месяц назад

Ok but she’s 100% the modern day V C Andrews. This is the 2020s answer to Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina. It’s all fedish stuff disguised by flowery purple prose.

@Snowfoxie1 Месяц назад

I’m also cracking up because my old headboard had teeth marks because when my brother was like 5 he was jumping on my bed and smashed his face into the headboard 😆

@lolasum_sumi_san Месяц назад

Wait wait wait 💀 how dare you! Those novels are 100% better than this. FITA series are one of my favourites, shush!

@francescapatti2934 26 дней назад

3:26 the idea of some poor person standing in line for the restroom, having just witnessed a random woman walk past them absolutely DRENCHED in blood and then overhearing that conversation is killing me😂 Like ma'am?! I need to piss, can y'all have this talk later 😂

@ladybirdg5658 5 месяцев назад

It says so much about coho fans that THIS book is the universally hated one. This is like the only book I've heard summarized/reviewed that was batshit enough that it circled back around to being entertaining. Most of her books are just boring tbh, but this one is INSANE

@ximenarodriguez1154 4 месяца назад

This is gonna be so random, but you've been helping me with my English for the past few months. You speak so fast I've made trying to understand everything you say my goal 😅 And I also love your videos. I'll wait for the last part

@vixeon_0454 3 месяца назад

My grandmother got variety as a b-day gift from my cousin, who had heard it was good. I mentioned to her that I heard it wasn’t good and she said she’d give it a read. Next time I saw her she said “You were right. It was terrible.”

@wawaicedcoffee 5 месяцев назад

Casey we’re both the same age and grew up on tumblr so I KNEW you were gonna reference “okay? okay.” after the “alright, alright” quotes 😂 as you should

@npitzer 5 месяцев назад

you NEED to do Hopeless. no one talks about it and that was the one Colleen Hoover book I really loved as a teen. I need someone I trust to talk about it lol it’s as insane as any Colleen Hoover book

@mariak5169 5 месяцев назад

This is kinda weird but i remember watching the first vid in this series at the start of uni this year, and now this is my last week of term😭

@mia.xoxo.305 5 месяцев назад

yes, Reneé Rapp is back

@Joyous0 3 месяца назад

okay so now I get why lowen asked crew "wdym mommy's knife?", because verity kept it with her incase jeremy attempts to hurt her. i actually believe verity and feel bad for her

@shattertheair 5 месяцев назад

AT THE STEAK ‘N SHAKE?????

@LeilaleilaZ 5 месяцев назад

Girl I just jumped omfg I love getting new videos from youuu❤

@ellegarrels2317 3 месяца назад

yessss i actually want u to do ALL of her books😭😁 i js love the way u explain them so i don’t have to read them myself😀 but also ur opinions make it better

@rolanslide8509 2 месяца назад

Even if the autobiography IS fake, writing about your actually dead children in that way is insane.

@wiktoriaostrowska3201 5 месяцев назад

I was just watching your previous videos about there books the night before and now it’s morning in Poland and u uploaded a new one. Life is good

@asparkof-light 5 месяцев назад

The way I was thinking about Verity today omg queen OWA OWA

@caseyaonso4270 5 месяцев назад

OWA OWAAAAAAAAA

@anastasiamademli5296 3 месяца назад

Well, I know that you won't read this because it's been over a month since you posted the video but I just wanted to thank you. I went on holiday with a bunch of horrible people, only because I really wanted to visit Naples and non of my other friends had the money to come, and I had an awful time there. The only thing that kept me sane that whole week were your videos ( especially the one's on Colleen). Every night at 3am, when everyone else went to sleep, I would put one of your videos on so that I can laugh and finally feel relaxed. Thank you❤❤

@arishaw8975 5 месяцев назад

the way i gasped when i saw you posted this, i'm so excited! love this series

@catticorner 5 месяцев назад

the second you called the man "jerm" all i could see him as was jerma with neon green eyes. thank you for that. also god damn the way colleen writes sex and romance makes me feel physically ill!!!!

@slutfortttt Месяц назад

She writes it with good grammar, but it’s as bad as a one direction smut fic from 2012

@aban-09 5 месяцев назад

if you haven't already, you should read the bonus chapter for Verity! it def makes people switch to team letter...

@eventually687 5 месяцев назад

Where can I read it? I thought it was the chapter with the letter under the floor?

@aban-09 5 месяцев назад

@@eventually687 i found it online. i think someone on reddit also posted it.

@slutfortttt Месяц назад

@@eventually687someone on Reddit uploaded the full chapter in two parts

@halethaden 5 месяцев назад

16:52 your video choices always send me GIRL HELP 😭

@cameronbennett5085 5 месяцев назад

"I'm sorry, this is not a Final Girl. She's cooked! And so are we" had me rolling

@feliciarussell2684 2 месяца назад

No joke, Rebecca is the best book I’ve ever read. Do yourselves a favor and read it!!

@suniyajawed5109 5 месяцев назад

You should read "Layla" as well. It's weirder than verity and basically paranormal/supernatural done in a really bad almost comical way.

@jenm3577 5 месяцев назад

NOT DOOKIE EYES 😭

@hil619 5 месяцев назад

You’re the only way I can stomach those book. Loving this book series! Thank you for powering through!

@gaminglightning4363 5 месяцев назад

What confuses me is that scene where Jeremy asks why Verity told Crew to hold his breath. Did that conversation take place? Because if it didn’t, then wouldn’t Jeremy have read it and been confused that the conversation didn’t happen leading him to the conclusion that the manuscript was fake? If it did happen then did Verity actually tell Crew to hold his breath? Because if she didn’t, where did Jeremy get the idea from? The manuscript? Did she tell both of the kids to hold their breath but only one understood? Did Jeremy not have the conversation, read that part, think “that’s weird,” and then keep reading? I’m reading way too far into a CoHo book, but this is annoying me.

@SilentProti 5 месяцев назад

Yeah I'm confused too bc I watched so many videos about this book and idk anymore. I think this didn't happen, like she tried to save harper but failed and Jeremy jumped to conclusions (and with the bonus chapter that makes a lot of sense)

@ivykaway 4 месяца назад

How I understood it was that she did tell Crew to hold his breath but only when the boat started tipping. In the manuscript she wrote that she told him before, to make it more sinister. So the conversation with Jeremy probably happened and she was telling the truth, that she told his as the boat was tipping not before. But I might be wrong.

@MinnieMay9 20 дней назад

I love this series. I'm so much more interested in you telling me about her books than to read them myself.

@powthekicker8765 2 месяца назад

I know people who are CoHo superfans. Of course, they encouraged me to pick-up her books, and somehow, they never piqued my interest. Then I stumble across your wonderful treatises on her works. Thank you, Casey. I shall remain calm and cozy in the literary fiction aisle.

@purplelily7764 5 месяцев назад

Your commentary on these books is literally so entertaining I’m very glad you are making a part 4 as well ❤