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)?
Also I’m probably going to be down voted to hell for this and probably receive a ton of hatemail…
J. K. Rowling used one of the oldest tropes in the litteraly world. “Harry learned the power of love to defeat his enemies”
Like I’m pretty sure they used that on Saturday morning cartoons. “Bad guy D’jour is impervious to our powers. What can we do?”
a small kitten out of nowhere just comes over and nuzzles the bad guy… Bad guy suddenly keels over in pain
“look everyone, this small kitten that has wandered onto set has somehow defeated this Villan with small nuzzles! He cannot love, that’s his weakness!”