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Slammed by Colleen Hoover

8 reviews

gaeliloveweiss's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.25

Colleen Hoover books should be banned from YA sections. I guess adults can read this shit if they want but this is sooooo much worse than Twilight ever was. At least that had an element of fantasy that pushes it away from reality. This is so toxic we were screaming for characters to stop doing literally everything they did. Horrible, groomer enabling parent. Groomer teacher. I would let my teenage children read almost anything before any of the CoHo books I’ve read. It’s a crime that this book is allowed to be categorize as a YA novel with such a toxic summary and yet not specify the awful what the “plot twist” is (it’s a high schooler getting romantically involved with their teacher.) CoHo takes toxic pornhub categories and makes them into toxic romantic novels peddled to teenagers. My real rating of this is a stone cold zero. There’s nothing redeemable here. And I’m not a pearl clutcher. My favorite book is Maeve Fly. Also, not gonna tag this as having spoilers on principle. People should know the unethical twist.

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llnonaysll's review against another edition

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challenging fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.25

Don’t u juzt love a romanticized teacher-ztudent relationzhip?!
Both characterz are dumb, bipolar and dumb. One time they’re abzolutely in love with each other and another time they’re like “awhh no we can’t be together”.

The way Will beat up a ztudent becauze he waz jealouz that the ztudent waz making out(and by that i mean azzaulting) Layken??

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stitchbooks22's review against another edition

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emotional fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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deartaylorwoods's review against another edition

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emotional funny sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Finally knocked this off of my TBR list after TEN YEARS. I didn’t expect to enjoy it this much, but I also know if I had read it 10 years ago… I’d have somehow liked it even more.

My biggest gripe was that conveniently RIGHT before everything escalates is the moment Lake recognizes the irresponsibility of their relationship. It’s written as quite a revelation, yet she throws it to the wind almost immediately after the climax.

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whosfernn's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.75

Reading a book about a student/teacher relationship was not on my itinerary for this year, but here we are. If I wanted to read wattpad, I would go on wattpad. I do not need that kind of low-effort problematic romance when I choose to read an actual book. I think my personal favourite part was when **spoilers** a nine year old boy dressed up as his mother's cancerous lungs for Halloween, and said mother willingly made the costume. If someone hadn't already bought me the rest of the series, I wouldn't touch either of the following books with a ten foot pole, but unfortunately they're on my bedroom floor so I guess I have to read them. The only thing stopping this book from being one star was the fact that it was so damn easy to read. I flew through it, and I hated every second of it.

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