CoHort, assemble: How Colleen Hoover became the world’s biggest author
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In her new release’s acknowledgements, Hoover, 42, calls Ends – the story of a young florist who finds herself in an abusive marriage – “the one book I have been adamant I would never write a sequel for”. But to get bogged down in what’s “wrong” with the book – which happens plenty on BookTok, where Hoover also has a chorus of detractors – is to miss out on the more fascinating question about It Ends with Us: what’s made it so insanely popular anyway? In Hoover’s romantic worlds, trauma is validated, healing is possible, and people – even irredeemable villains – can at least be understood The trauma-centred plot has limits. In Hoover’s romantic worlds, trauma is validated, healing is possible, and people – even irredeemable villains – can at least be understood.
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