I’ve been wondering about this. Colleen Hoover is well known as the sort of poster girl for sloppily written, baffling and aggressively mediocre books.
What was the equivalent to her in previous times? Like the Romantic or Modernist period?
During the the 1890s, what book was considered “embarassing” or super low brow to be caught with (in the same way the book community largely treats It Ends With Us)?
Judith Krantz, Danielle Steele.
Judith Michael.
I read one as a 12 year old. It included the explicit description of the rape of a 13 year old… basically child pornography.
It came up in therapy for me a few years ago.