Discussion

jace people will read what they wanna read🤷‍♂️ lol

Max Edge Do you mean like at the library? Libraries can't really "stop" anyone from checking out a book. Hopefully teenagers are having conversations with each other about the content of the book and being critical readers. If anything they've at least seen the controversy online, or have seen Colleen Hoover book breakdowns in their YouTube feed.

Mandy Allowed how?

jace i mean everyone is entitled to their opinions of course but there is sooo much controversy from banning books and allowing people to read certain things versus other things. i hope this doesn’t come off in a mean way but people are going to read whatever they want to read and i think it’s a bad idea to try to control people and what they read. i get why someone wouldn’t want teenagers to read colleen hoover books but at the same time there’s so many books that people “shouldn’t read” and they’ve been banned and things like that but what does banning a book really do? people are going to find ways around it and in the end banning them is causing more problems than letting people read them in the first place.

Sarah Ortinau I don’t like CoHo, and I’m an elder millennial who remembers in high school before Twilight the struggle of finding books aimed at my age demographic. (Thank the Gods for Twilight, ya’ll need to start putting some respect on that books name). So keep that in mind when I say, the only thing that I don’t like about teenagers reading CoHo is that she writes a lot of abusive relationships and doesn’t believe in trigger warnings for her books. It bothers me because it’s marketed as a romance book, so people go in thinking it’s something it’s not and that can be triggering for some people. Other than the fact that I think that people should be able to find out information that might be triggering to them, I’m just happy that people are reading. It’s really nobody’s business, and if they can identify with what she writes and are able to seek help if they find themselves in those situations, then that’s a good thing.

Sheli Wilburn Trigger warnings would be great because they also give parents a heads up on what to expect when their kids are reading these. I can’t read every book my daughter reads but knowing which discussions to have would be great!

Annabel Joyner Their parents aren't paying attention, and that's really the whole of it. It's no one else's job to police what kids read.

Ado Kids who read a lot will always end up reading stuff they’re def too young for. (Sometimes deliberately and sometimes unintentionally.) I certainly did when I was a teen

Olive Smith Older teen here (19 is still a teen, right??) :D to answer your question, a whole lot of us (well ppl that I know) don’t read CoHo bc they see all the reviews online. But when it comes to other books that have spice. Again you can’t really control them bc sooner or later, they’re gonna read those books. I started reading spice at 13 but I was also very mature for my age (still am lmaoo). So you can’t really force ppl (especially teens) into not reading something that they want to explore and maybe read just to know what all the fuss/ fame is about

Stacy That’s up to the parents. It’s not for us to censor others.