It's because her books are the most popular romance books and get recommended to young people the most. I still remember that one girl who caught her 11 year old sister reading Ugly Love and had to sit her down and explain just how toxic and dangerous the books are.

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This is so dramatic and immature.

CoHo is not really my style at all, but that being said:

Lots of female readers enjoy her work, and people just fucking LOVE shitting all over ANYTHING women like or take pleasure in.

Anyone who's calling you "fake and uneducated" for the crime of fucking reading popular fiction can get fucked themselves. There's no reward for reading "deeper" books. Shitting all over what people enjoy in an attempt to make themselves feel important for their supposedly more "advanced" tastes is asshole behavior.

Read what you like, enjoy what you like. There's no prize at the end of any of this.

Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola

This absolutely a great read

If you like gothic books then you might like the castle of otranto. Obb if you want to read some nice sagas then Harry Potter or His Dark Materials are really good

Maybe I misinterpreted, but I thought OP acknowledged that and was asking specifically why her books get more hate than other books that do similar things and don't get called out. Ik her books have a lot of bad tropes that don't get called out in the text; the one I was talking about had it explicit within the text the "love interest" was supposed to be abusive, hence the mis-marketing, and why i thought they might get more hate. Sorry if I worded that wrong.

Did you like it?

I found it contrived and boring. Maybe I wasn't in the right headspace.

The shadow of the wind

Well, I'm gay, so I primarily read gay romances if I'm in the mood for romance. A few that I liked are:

Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake (Bisexual romance, lots of well-written characters and family themes.)

The Soldier's Scoundrel by Cat Sebastian (It's.. a lot better than the title suggests. Historical fiction with adventure and mystery!)

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry (M/F. Love interests are best friends and gradually fall in love over a decade of vacations together.)

Like you, I don't read romances that portray abusive behaviors as loving and typical, and I'm also very picky about what romances I read at all.

She had got to be the most recommended author in the world right now, so a lot of those recommendations have to be going to people who aren't the kind of person who would like her books. So it leads to a backlash.

Yes, that's the problem. Her books are not romance but are about toxic relationships. Yet her fans think it's romance and don't consider there to be anything wrong with how the male characters treat the female main character. It's baffling and I feel bad for them.

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Invisible Man by H G Wells

People consider CoHo to be a writer for people who don't read books. Her writting is pretty bad and she can't create realistic characters and dialogue for the life of her. But probably the worst thing about her is the normalisation of abuse in relationships. Bad writting is normal and common, but the way she romaticizes abuse is not. Anyone who has read better books can see this but younger people who have only started reading (and unfortunately often get recommended CoHo by her oblivious fans) might not notice that there is something wrong.

crying lot of 49

Fully understand where you're coming from. There's one exception I'm aware of, where the refusal to kill the main character is tastefully and sensibly done: >!The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris!<. His refusal to kill her fitted in entirely with the respect he developed for her over the course of the novel. It would have been a disappointment if he had gone after her.

Idrk. I haven't actually read them, but I heard someone complain about her books being kind of mis-marketed. For example, there was one about an abusive relationship (i think Nov 9) but it was heavily marketed as romance that they didn't feel came in until the end (when MC got with someone else). Idk if that has something to do with it? Or maybe ppl just need a new Twilight to channel all their frustration into.

>a notable exception being Col. Moran who just ganked his enemies.

But in an interesting and hard to immediately deduce way

Atlas Shrugged

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Animals Farm, 1984, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Crime and Punishment Great Expectations, Sherlock Holmes stories, Child 44, 12 Years a Slave, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, And Then there Were none, The Silent Patient, Oliver Twist

As I read it, it's not anything particular you can pick. The whole book paints portrait of society and life in the area. Interactions of characters are there to show and illustrate those discourses and atmosphere of the society. And people's places in social structures.

For example. In the first part, I felt the locals were main focus and how these foreign professors people can justify to themselves going with the flow and exploit people. As societal structures make it possible.

if you want something thrilling and also considered literature, I would recommend A Farewell to Arms by Hemmingway.