How Did Colleen Hoover Get Even Worse? 

Check out my review of the first book in the Slammed Series here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1Atr9xgomrk.html

That part with them talking about how grown the 11 yr old girl is beyond gross. My daughter just turned 11 yesterday. There is no way you would look at her and think "Wow she's such an adult". People need to stop trying to force little girls to be older than they are. That stuff ruined my childhood.

It’s horrifying that Colleen’s sense of humour goes from ‘haha what if I say butterfly instead of shit’ to ‘let’s psychologically torment these young traumatised children by making them believe they’re about to be brutalised!!’

2:00:08 A stranger in the audience, seeing a grown man talking about falling in love with a person wearing children's slippers, kicking gnomes, getting grades in school, wearing hair clips and drinking chocolate milk: "I-- is this about a child? I think we should call the police."

Theory that the reason Layken is fine without her medical history being filled out is because she doesn’t have a history at all. She’s not enough of a real character so her medical record is absolutely blank. She has no blood.

One thing I feel needs to be said regarding this disgusting book: Physically trapping a person, blocking them, or cornering them IS physical abuse. It is one of the most overlooked types of physical abuse because it doesn't leave bruises or visible damage, and the abuser can easily rephrase its abuse as protection. I.E.: "I was afraid you would hurt yourself", "You can't just run away from me, we need to talk", "You're overreacting", and other various gaslighty terms.

One of the things I DESPISED about this book is how all of the mother's last gestures before her death were about pushing her daughters into the arms of a stranger. Why did he need to be included in the jar of messages?! Why was the letter about them as a couple, and not for her daughter alone? Why did she gave her wedding band to Will? Can you imagine if they had broken up, and now all memories Lake had of her mother were tied to her ex? WEIRD, BAD MOM

If my boyfriend stole a bunch of my possessions, including those with sentimental value and then presented them to a crowd of people while reading a poem of his own creation, publicly show-and-telling the personal details of my life and our relationship, I would file a restraining order. Edit: I’m getting a kick out of imagining a normal person attending this slam poetry event and having to sit through Will’s “poem.” He’s hogging the stage for like ten minutes while everyone else prays for death.

I just don’t understand why people adore her writing so much.

So my 2 cents on the hospital/brain surgery thing. Source: I work in medicine with doctors and am an aspiring doctor myself, and I've helped care for several folks who've had brain surgery. 1) not only is putting down the wrong last name dangerous, it could be considered insurance fraud. if her name on her insurance and the name on her medical records didn't match, insurance may not have paid for any of it 2) prior to planned surgery, especially brain surgery, most people get a chlorhexidine bath to knock down your normal flora on your skin and prevent infection. I get it may have been an emergency but for God's sake, they would have gotten the mud and blood off her prior to going to the OR. At the very least, a nurse would have helped bathe her while she was in the ICU after to help preserve her dignity and keep her safe and healthy. 3) speaking of, no half decent nurse would have let a 19 year old who just had brain surgery get bathed by her SO. It's not in the patient's interest and does not preserve her dignity. The only way they might let it happen is if the patient insisted and even then with all the drains and stuff from surgery, the nurse would hopefully had guided her away from that decision. 4) most loved ones of people who had brain surgery are terrified of touching or hurting the patient. There's usually drains, lines and tubes hooked to the person post brain surgery for several weeks, they flit in and out of consciousness, moods are all over the place. People who've been married for 60+ years don't crawl into bed with their partners. Will is a weirdo (but we know that). 5) idk what that thing with the bath was. We don't have baths in patient rooms at my hospital, or most American hospitals. It's more like a tiny wet room toilet-shower combo with the sink out in the main room with the bed. I think Colleen Hoovers only experience with hospitals is maternity wards, which explains a lot.

1:50:12 So a man's heart is validated by being loved and a woman's heart is validated by loving a man? Anyone else think it's weird that the man's heart isn't required to love anyone else's heart to be valid?

Wait… there's MORE THAN ONE book in that series????? One was already too many!!!! Thank you for torturing yourself so we don't have to, Rachel!!!

Putting the grooming aside, Colleen dragging out the “will they, won’t they (shag)” on these two adults in a committed relationship is just not the plot point she thought it was. It comes across as predatory on Wills part which I did not think could be more possible

During the butterfly "poem" to the bullies all I could hear was my former bullies laughing their asses of, like I can actually hear their exact laughter, CoHo can't have any experience with being bullied if she thinks that "poem" would help, it would literally be used as fodder for more bullying.

The storyline about trying to parent the little brothers sits weird w me, bc it feels like it was included so that the main female character can show off her “maternal instincts” while also being “pure” and virginal, framing both like traits of an “ideal woman” or ideal relationship dynamic. Like she’s trying to have her cake and eat it too w her traditionalist gender-role nonsense :/

I once heard someone say this, and it stuck with me ever after: '"you're so mature for your age' is not a compliment, because you're effectively praising the trauma that forced me to be too mature for my age." In my case it was due to parentification due to an alcoholic mother. I used to take it as a positive, because I was an adult early in my life and when you're young, you always want to be older. But now that I am a legitimate adult, I feel it is a detriment because I never got to really have a childhood. The idea of the 11 year old in the story being referred to as way older than her actual age just makes me very sad for her.

The threat written by the two kids and the reaction of their pseudo-parents to it makes me scared that Colleen has gotten such a call from her son's school one day after he did the same thing and that SHE went "Teehee, how cute of my son to be announcing the end of his classmate's lifespan!" and I honestly don't know how to handle that thought ... In general, I find it baffling how unsettling she manages to write her character's reactions to certain situations while also making them as deep as a piece of cardboard. Does that count as a special talent?

His "because of you" poem sounds like it's written by someone who watched the series You and thought it was a cute romance o.O

the way they talk about kiersten in this book is horrifying. like, i was creeped on as a kid and was told it was because i looked older or i acted older, and looking back at pictures of me i was a fucking BABY. horrifying how casually she drops things like that in here. (also "in the floor" is a southernism. my kentucky friends use it, and iirc colleen's from texas.)

Omg, I can’t believe the crimes against gnomekind somehow got worse. A purge of gnomes? Glorifying the brutalizing of innocent gnomes? Someone notify The Hague to bring charges of gnomicide against Colleen Hoover.

Funny story re: swear words. When I was like 5, I got a kitten. We lovingly called her "skitunge" (literally "shit kid"). When my kindergarden teacher found out, she was flabbergasted and said I shouldn't call her that. I didn't understand! We used it as a term of endearment, like "you naughty girl". Mom said to not listen to my teacher 😉😉

I think there was a quote that was something like "the age of consent is 16, not so that adult can have sex with 16 year olds, but because 16 year olds want to have sex with each other"

As embarrassing as it is, a couple years ago I was an avid fan of Colleen Hoover. I slowly stopped reading her and then started seeing videos criticizing her. I was curious because I genuinely did not see anything wrong with her books. Looking back, it’s horrifying knowing that I wanted a relationship like the ones she wrote about. Knowing that young girls are feeling the way I did reading this book, I pray they come across your videos. They’ve helped me gain an educated perspective about abuse and how it can be easily manipulated to be seen as love. Thank you for this ❤

14:34 when Kiersten is talking about swear words as a social construct, it almost felt like Colleen was saying "grooming is just a social construct", and that people can see anything as a swear or as grooming, so it doesn't matter

I can't stop picturing Will as the teacher from glee 😭 it's just too perfect

When I was 18, I had a 26yo guy stopping by my work regularly to flirt and make it clear he wanted to go out. I didn’t ever feel pressured by him. He wasn’t at all aggressive or creepy. And he took it well when I said no after finding out his age. I told my mom about it but I think I didn’t share his name. Then one day, I walk into her office and the new guy at her work she’d been telling me about is THE guy. All of it was just super weird coincidence because I met him before he worked with my mom and neither of us knew she’d been talking about the same guy. Before she knew him, she was fine with my choice not to date him. Then once she got to know him (because he seemed genuinely nice) I was totally shocked that she questioned why I wouldn’t go out with him. I think, like CH, she had been around purity culture and the misogyny of MRS degrees far too long in her life, so finding a partner was the goal in her mind. The appropriateness and life stage of the partner wasn’t relevant if they were interested. It’s how a woman I knew ended up marrying a man 16 years older than her when she was still in university and didn’t finish her degree. I was heavily influenced by purity culture in my childhood since I grew up in the church. But I’m still proud that I let my mom know I wasn’t okay with someone 8 years older because he was in a totally different stage of life. Truthfully, I think even the guy wasn’t totally okay with it once he knew. (I was constantly clocked as being much older than I was.) Anyway, the fact that Colleen Hoover is a Texan explains so very much.

It’s honestly wild knowing that I’m around the same age as Will. Like literally just a couple hours I was telling one of my flatmates to stop hitting on 18-19 year olds because they’re too young and immature and he got defensive because it’s only three years. If he was a teacher doing that I’d be reporting him so fucking fast but people want to argue it’s alright and I hate it

I love Rachel's new long videos era. Honestly her shirt videos were great but her long videos are way better

I'm a simple woman. I see Rachel uploaded a new video, I'll click on it faster than Colleen Hoover can make her new character pregnant in an abusive relationship.

as an AMERICAN, I've had about 10 blood tests in my life and no doctor has ever told me my blood type. My parents don't know their blood types, and most of my friends don't either. The real problem for Layknn here with Will lying about her name is that now her insurance won't cover her hospital bill so she's going to be out thousands of dollars. Excited for book 3 where she will hopefully sue the shit out of this creep. Also what in the heteronormativity, married couples don't always have the same last name. Colleen's just a weirdo (I mean we been knew)

As a child abuse victim i also do NOT find "jokingly" threatening child abuse funny giggly silly. What was the author thinking.... Great video Rachel, i just came back to your channel after some time and its just as cool as i remember if not better 😊

There are so many better ideas of "oh man we should parent this but its funny" that don't include literal calculated death threats. For instance, my younger sister in 2nd grade had been listening to the Hamilton soundtrack nonstop because my parents had gone to see it recently. She especially loved, "you'll be back" which contains a few threatening-ish lines. Well, my little sister only remembered the line, "I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love." She ended up singing it to one of her peers, not realizing her peer hadn't caught the fact it was a song she was singing. Well, my mom got a call home that my sister was making "terroristic threats." Of course, my mom was appalled and asked what she said, leading her to realize my sister was singing the song. She explained the situation to the teacher, and then the student was calmed down, but my mom had to take a good ten minutes to collect herself because she was laughing at the absurdity of it-- and figuring out how to tell my sister she couldn't sing that song at school anymore. Another example being my neighbor. Our neighborhood is small, so every friday night we'd get together growing up and have pizza while the parents drank wine. It was thus called "friday night wine." Well, one day in school my neighbor got bored and decided to write "friday night wine" on her leg... in 5th grade... in permanent marker. Needless to say, that was a fun explanation that my neighbor's mom had to make. Those are instances where being torn between laughing hysterically and "ok but don't do this ever again" is understandable. Not sending death threats and meaning it.

Will is giving me Onision vibes. Sorry for bringing him up. It's like they have an issue with being called a groomer, when they are literally are grooming and abusing young girls and don't care. Thanks for the great content Rachel

I live for Rachel's: "Rude! Well at least that gnome isn't a groomer." Lolled so hard at that.

1:31:15 hard relate! My ex husband confessed to having 7 affairs over the first 5 years of our relationship, the week after our wedding which was a year after the last instance of him cheating!!!!! I only knew of 1 time and i should have left him then. I struggled so much trying to trust him again and i took 3 years of marriage and personal therapy to realize i wasnt happy and see all the abuse in that relationship. We also opened to poly right before the cheating came out, we took a break for a year, and when i started to date after the break during therapy i started to see i was also desirable outside of what he was telling me. Therapy plus the 2 healthy relationships i had really built up my confidence and i asked for a divorce one the 3rd year of therapy. Here i am a year and a half later and i am in a really great relationship that has been so healing for me, i am an entirely different person.

This man isn't just so many red flags that he could be mistaken for the Red Sea but he's straight up a horror movie villain.

Rachel all through this video: *insert Michael Jordan Stop It meme*

The german translation of the titles is: 1. Because I love Layken, 2. Because I love Will and 3. Because we love us. Insinuating that everything that happens in the books is because they love each other. I find that so sick

11:53 I'd like to think that Will only hangs out with his ex-students because his adult friendships went down the toilet when they en-masse reported him for grooming (it would not be strange for the police to fail to do something about it, sigh), but I suspect that this is his norm. 54:18 "After Will is like, 'I'm counting down the days until I can stick my penis in you, Layken' -- I may be paraphrasing...." But that would probably still manage to place in the top 10 most poetic things that Will has said in these books. 58:09 The shift from young adult to erotica is particularly weird when it's about, like, romanticizing grooming. I thought, too generously, that maybe this was a case of there being enough time between their publishing that the original readers would now be adults (which would still be a little odd since the first book would still exist for current young adults), but no, they were in fact both published on the same year. 1:04:09 "Twenty-two hours and our *war* begins" At least he's talking about his sex life in front of a bunch of minors in metaphor rather than explicitly. "Our war of *limbs* and *lips* and *hands*...." Never mind, I'm pretty sure even the 11-year-olds can figure out what he's doing here. 1:12:49 At this point, I wonder if this book was written from Will's point of view because there is no way to believe the author's intended narrative that Will was being foolish rather than duplicitous. It's barely believable when we are given his exact thoughts. AS I WROTE THIS YOU GOT TO 1:17:25 WHERE HE LITERALLY IS BEING DUPLICITOUS ABOUT HER DEAD MOM'S GIFT I'm starting to think he's an unreliable narrator who is actually deliberately doing what even Colleen Hoover would recognize as cheating and his thought process we've written here is just the story he wants to spin for Layken. 1:22:14 You talk about how these problems were artificially created by the characters not communicating like adults, and I realize to my horror that I'm only halfway through the video. My gosh, this is a terrifying realization. Your videos are great but this book is awful. 1:27:01 In Layken's case, she also expresses her feelings as "have sex with me because you had sex with her" because she is, in fact, still basically a child. Like by age she has hit the age of majority in many countries, but she has just barely left high school. The stuff you said comparing to your own experiences *did* make sense and it was useful in running through these unhealthy but natural behaviours. Most adults need a therapist to try to process this in a healthy way because we aren't taught this stuff properly. But also in this case she's still a teenager! 1:46:30 My "Will is actually fully aware of his abusiveness and he's being an unreliable narrator to hide it" theory gains more legs with breaking her car to force her to ride with him and then casually thinking about how to manipulate her into breaking her boundaries. Yuck. 1:58:47 Honestly, I, too, would be putting my hand over my mouth to gasp in shock and start crying in Layken's shoes, because I would be realizing that oh my god, I was going out with a stalker who has been collecting things to build a shrine to me or something, I'm going to get murdered in my bed tonight. 2:14:04 Thank you for not going through with your threat in pitching either your tablet or yourself off the train. I know it must have been tempting at the time. 2:15:38 I struggle to remember even my own medical information and probably couldn't manage much for my own family (though I think I know where to find most of the information around their houses), but I also couldn't produce anything I've stolen from their closets and garbage, either. 2:17:15 I hope I'm not as good at predicting Colleen Hoover as you are, because I had the sudden sinking feeling that Eddie's kid is a girl because she wants her main characters to have a boy in the way that some people think boys are better to have, and then they're going to talk about these infants maybe one day marrying each other and having their own babies to link the group together by bloodline. This is my current theory for what the third book (why does it exist) will end with. 2:17:40 "not like sex sleep, just sleep next to her." It's such a sad commentary on these books that this is actually a necessary clarification. 2:27:58 I will give Colleen Hoover this: her poem ability is a lot more appropriate for a couple of 11 year olds, especially with their nearest example of a poet being so terrible. You have more than earned your break before going into the third. Please, take all the time you need to recover. I think we all need a break from this series haha. Thanks for the hard work and great video.

This is so unrelated, and SO SORRY for girlcrushing here but, I love how beautiful your hair is every. single. time you show up! And your makeup is so amazing, and awhhhh 😭 I usually put on any analysis/review videos just for background noise sake, but with you and Alizee I cannot not look and think how stunning you guys are!

re: Giving the wrong name at the hospital -- the US system is in no way put together enough for it to matter beyond the inevitable debt collection. I have gone to the ER in the same building as my primary doctor and as far as their records are concerned I'm three different people. If you have allergies and don't have one of those medical warning bracelets, godspeed to you, unless someone is there who knows your history. I've gone to the same ER with my mother for the first 20 years of my life and we were both different people every time, again, despite our doctors being in the same system. Give 'em whatever name you want if you don't have insurance, be ungovernable etc etc etc

For some reason every time you say "Vaughn", I hear "Vorn." Which isn't really any worse of a name.

I think it might be helpful to have the cultural context of the rural/Midwest USA here- it’s extremely common and somewhat socially expected to be married in your early twenties, and it’s still very religious and conservative so part of that is because young adults are not okay with the social consequences of having premarital sex, which would be a factor between our two leads here. Definitely worth casting a critical lens at but it does unfortunately make sense in their setting!

1:56:40 Please save room in that corner for me. “Because of You” is such an impactful song for me, as I’m sure it is for you and so many others, to the point I couldn’t listen to it for years without sobbing. Put some respect on Kelly Clarkson’s name, CoHo.

Colleen Hoover’s idea of “edgy” is almost cute. I recently finished the remake of Persona 3 that came out last week. Now there’s a genuinely dark story about death that *earns* its thematic edginess.

CoHo writing an abusive male lead that gets caught cheating on his girlfriend with his ex who he didn't establish boundaries with because he's shit, attempting to win back his girlfriend (without ever explaining himself or apologizing) who's trust he's shattered: This is just sooooo romantic, this man has done nothing wrong ever CoHo writing an abused female character reacting how she should to a shitty man: believe it or not, jail* (*read: trapped in a room)

“I could care less.” “You mean, ‘couldn’t care less,’ right?” “No I meant I could care less. I just wouldn’t.”

The fact that Hoover used to be a social worker is incredibly concerning. The fact that people are actually reading this trash (RU-vidrs doing it for a video being excluded) and can actually say something positive about it boggles my mind.

TWO OF MY FAVORITE THINGS, PRETTY LITTLE LIARS AND COLEEN HOOVER HATE? SIGN ME UP

when you said that you imagined Will as Paul it fucking killed me 😭

Screaming crying throwing up passing out etc with excitement that you posted such a long video on my cleaning day 😩 I was not looking forward to it at all and was considering just laying in bed all day instead, but having your video there to keep me company and entertained while I clean turned my day around!!! ❤

ALSO to add: Having had brain surgery myself (for a cogenital condition called Chiari Malformation), I can GUARANTEE you that sitting on my bed or touching my hand would result in me screaming. It's INCREDIBLY painful and you feel every jostle when it's your head. The nurses handled me with such care that when I was forced to sit up, the shock from the pain was so intense that I passed out. Something tells me Colleen doesn't do a lot of research and just wants to wring emotion without doing any of the work.

Fun fact #1 The German word for poem comes from “compacting” because it’s supposed to be a way to say something in a compacted way chock-full of all these stylistic devices. Fun fact #2 The coho word for poem comes from “diluting” because she says even less in them than in her normal prose

Yeah, if someone tries to come onto us or one of our exes contacts us, my husband and I tell each other and laugh about it. It can be a bit awkward at first, but we didn't do anything wrong and we don't have anything to hide. Transparency and honesty is the best!

At the hospital I work at (in the US) they won’t register your name without proper identification, like a driver’s license, if you can’t identify yourself. And if your name is different than your last visit they still require a new form of identification to change it in the system, otherwise they keep your old name based on your medical record number. If you’re unconscious or otherwise incapacitated, your name goes in as a “doe” or “trauma” depending on the situation until we figure it out. That being said, she was driving so she clearly had a license and he could have easily just grabbed her wallet.. but that would’ve made too much sense.

Perspectives of Death and Dying was my favorite college course. It changed my life. Don't knock it til ya try it (the class, not dying).

Omg you should try this eyeshadow look with blue and green, i think with your hair and eyes it would make you look so mermaidy 😍

2:01:24 imagine being at a poetry event and seeing this shit go down 😂

Listening to this review, I think one of the big issues with Colleen Hoover's books (aside from the obvious... everything) is that although the books are always about relationships, none of the characters ever feel like they actually have relationships with each other. Like none of them ever have normal conversations or do things together to get to know one another better, and they don't know basic information about each other, like these two have been dating a year and he doesn't even know if she has any allergies. He doesn't even know anything about his own brother. These characters clearly don't exist when they're not on the page and it makes them so uninteresting to read about when their entire lives exist for the plot of the book and nothing else. Like, content of her books aside, it's just poor writing on a technical level.

The only thing good Matt did this whole book that was out of character was opting out of the public proposal as another form of manipulation.

Substituting mundane terms for cursing is actually a pretty good way to make sure you don’t accidentally drop the f-word in polite conversation. Plus, telling someone to go fluff themselves just sounds hilarious. I have no idea what butterfly could cover though. That whole bit is just “im14andthisisdeep” cringe

love the butterfly earrings 🩷🩷

2:15:24 To be fair, hospitals never take your word for it when it comes to your blood type. I work in a hospital laboratory in America, but I'm sure it's done much the same globally. The hospital is going to test and determine your blood type at least twice before they give you anything (except in some emergency situations), and even then they'll reconfirm your blood type every few days. This is for multiple reasons, but mostly so that 1) sample mix-ups don't lead to patients getting typed incorrectly, and 2) while your blood type won't change, your body may develop antibodies that can make some donor blood incompatible (red blood cells actually have a lot more antigens on them than just the ones that make up the ABO Rh blood type). On top of that, they'll confirm the compatibility of every single blood product they give you. Blood bank doesn't mess around 🤣 So they don't need you to tell them her blood type, but having access to her medical history is definitely a must.

yay another longer video!! I always love listening to these while painting :) scared of whatever it is colleen wrote this time though 😭

If I didn't know any better, I would think this book is about Onision's life.

Okay I’m absolutely in love with your videos and your style of snark. You are amazing! 100% a subscriber now and fully on board! So glad I found you from Fundie Fridays

4:11 I appreciate that you bring this up, because it throws me off every time I read a multi perspective book especially. I get confused and don't know who I'm reading and I don't follow the story as well and have to pause the audiobook and puzzle it out sometimes because of authors who write both perspectives in the same type of way.

excited for the video rachel!!

kyra's snores are making this book bearable hahaha. we love you, kyra!

I'm starting to feel morally obligated to at least attempt writing romance for straight women because damn they deserve better than this

For my degree, I actually have to take a class called the science of death and dying. It's a really fascinating class, and goes over the psychology and physiology of natural death, and the grieving process. The goal is to eventually become an LCSW, and learning about grief and how to help people reconcile with their own mortality is pretty important.

Always love your insightful vids, Rachel. Thanks for being awesome!

I'm 50 minutes in and that poem gives me I'm 14 and this is deep vibes.

Woohoo new video!!!!!

48:53 I’m reminded of this conversation I overheard where a newlywed was talking about his wife’s children disrespecting him. (They were all grown children.). His friends advised him to give her a black eye or smack her around in front of the kids so they know he won’t hesitate to put her in her place. This fake fight being hysterical to them reminds me of that casual approach to abuse.

Just started the video but i need to say: the makeup in the beginning?! STUNNING okay now ill get on with the video

There’s nothing I’d rather have playing than Rachel roasting Coleen Hoover while I clean my house. Honestly her name sounds like a character she wrote

I am not even kidding when I say I had a nightmare that I was giving out Colleen Hoover books from the trunk of my car 💀 another invisible me was yelling at the me handing out books. I couldn't control my body and everyone was looking at and judging me for “liking” the books. It was so dramatic Edit: an ad started in the middle of you reading Will’s poem about sex and I audibly sighed in relief…

Off topic but the entire 2.5hr video I couldn’t help but smile at the little collection of Chuck Palahniuk on ur shelf 😊 he’s my fave and you got a great selection there.

13:00 Reminds me of Bryony Claire's video about girls having to grow up faster

Really silly nitpick, but the most annoying thing (for me) about the Point of Retreat poem is the line "I'd say the score is none to none" when the wordplay of "love all" a la tennis was Right There

This legit reminded me of when I was bedridden after being hit my a car - I got a message from some random guy on facebook like “oh man, I just saw the news article about you! Are you okay?” And then right after my response he sends: “Are you still pretty?” HWAT

Thank you again for being so vulnerable and open.

your makeup is so beautiful in this video!! like a sunset :) 🌅🌆

theres a course at my uni called death and dying and its like an anthropology/sociology/relgion course that examines the different views cultures have on death but hearing that colleen wrote the same course name into her book makes me shudder

Oh my god. I'm not finished with the video yet but THANK YOU for the couldn't vs. could care less rant. This has been one of my pet peeves for years. THANK YOU. I only discovered your channel today and this instantly made me subscribe🫡❤️

I love your book and series reviews!! If you have the time and space, i would love to hear your thoughts on the bargainer series by laura thalassa. The first is rhapsodic. I was only able to push through its serious cringe because it was in audio on 2×. Its seriously problematic, but other romantasy readers love it!

When I heard the 11-year-old was going to read "butterfly me" I was worried it would be something else... for once I was relieved.

Fundie Fridays sent me! Love your channel! New sub here in North Carolina

Unrelated to the video, but your eyeshadow and the earrings are absolutely amazing once again!!!

As an american, they wouldnt know any of that information even if he put down her real name. America doesnt have a central medical database so every time we see a doctor besides our primary care, we have to give them all our medical history and medications. Every time. If you’re unconscious they just treat you best they can and hopefully you have medical jewelry for any life threatening allergies

If there isn't justice for the gnome...

Reads with Rachel just did a video about her first encounter with Coho-she was not ready for how horrible the prose, plots, characterizations, "romance" and basically everything about these books were.

I love listening to these videos while gaming and painting! Thank you for reading these so I never do. On a side note about the hospital and family, in America they don’t really let your partner in as your family, unless you are legally married. They don’t have any rights in that situation

I’m such a slow reader that I don’t have enough time to read even the books I want to read, so how Rachel finds the time to read multiple garbage books a month on top of her usual stuff astounds me.

It's interesting seeing you reference your irl relationships as examples. Where's a playlist of lore to catch up on for an occasional watcher?:D

your looks are inspiring me to be more creative with makeup :)

I've just started the video- your eyeshadow is so pretty

Rachel, you look so beautiful in that white shirt with the butterfly earrings! Your makeup is gorgeous too I'm lovin' that look 🥰

When I heard the synopsis of the first book I thought that Coleen Hoover had finally written some sort of psychological thriller, not a romance