Okay, I just saw a trailer for a new movie, “Reminders of Him” (2026), and I remember thinking to myself how the plot for the film sounds and looks really similar to films like “Regretting You” (2025) and “It Ends With Us” (2024), which are adaptations of novels previously released. And after a quick Google search, I understand why, since I learned that the new movie, “Reminders of Him,” is an adaptation of a book from the same author who authored the previous works before they were adapted for the screen. Yes, since you have read the title, I am sure you know what infamous author I am talking about, the one and only Colleen Hoover.
To introduce her is a challenge since I struggle to really call her an American author. But, if you are unfamiliar with her, all you need to know is that she is a person from the United States who happens to write in between her latest controversies, which seems to be her main occupation.
But seriously, all jokes and teasing aside, I honestly wonder why we are still reading books by Colleen Hoover? With all of the new and upcoming adaptations of her novels, she still surprisingly has an audience since there is a demand for films to be made and adapted from her source material of books, but just why? For starters, she romances and even glorifies abusive and toxic relationships throughout her books. Specifically in the novel, “It Ends With Us,” Hoover goes all in to paint domestic abuse as something a couple can overcome with enough love and just ignoring the issue altogether. Especially since Hoover’s main audience is for the young teenage demographic, Hoover’s work is especially damaging since it teaches young and impressionable readers that being in a toxic and unhealthy relationship is fine, since love can conquer anything.
I mean, really, in this day and age, I do not think we should really be giving writers attention who romanticize abusive relationships. Besides being problematic, giving such authors a platform just delivers the message that abusive relationships are fine and even normal in a relationship as long as you love your partner enough to move past it. And is that really what we want to be teaching the younger generation?
