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The Worst Bestsellers

Episode 213 – It Ends With Us

The Worst Bestsellers

Worst Bestsellers

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.5609 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

Dear Ellen, our friend Vanessa from the podcast Hot and Bothered flew in from Plethora, Maine to discuss Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us. Millions of BookTokkers can’t be wrong…can they? Listen to this episode in Boston, where everything is better.

Content warning: Domestic abuse, child abuse, sexual assault, death of a child.

Readers advisoryHere.

Footnotes: “Bestselling writer Colleen Hoover apologizes for planned coloring book based on domestic violence novel” by Issy Ronald.

Hot and Bothered: It Ends With Us

Coming up next: Corinne by Rebecca Morrow.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about Ellen's number one fans, so you don't have to.

0:18.4

I'm Renata.

0:19.3

And I'm Kate.

0:20.7

And for this episode, we read It Ends

0:23.7

with Us by Colleen Hoover. Joining us to discuss this bewildering book talk sensation is Vanessa,

0:31.0

host of Hot and Bothered, which this season is live from Pemberley discussing Pride and Prejudice.

0:37.0

Hello, Vanessa.

0:38.5

Hi.

0:39.7

Thanks for having me to discuss this book.

0:43.6

This book.

0:44.4

Okay.

0:45.4

This book, first of all, so many content warnings, mentions of suicide, domestic

0:50.9

violence, death of a child, gun violence.

0:56.2

Attempted rape.

0:57.8

Oh, yeah, attempted rape.

1:00.6

Just everything.

1:02.4

Yeah.

1:03.2

I mean, I don't know if we need a content warning for homelessness, but I do think we need a content warning for the way that homelessness is

1:12.1

handled in this book. Yes. Yes. Content warning for carelessness. Yes. That's what it is.

1:20.5

Thank you. There we go. Ding, ding, ding. Okay, this book, by the way, to come off of Nora Roberts Month and then where Nora is so good at like creating these like three dimensional characters that you just like fully believe in these people.

1:37.5

And then to come into this world of like cartoon Wikipedia entries was like so jarring. But at the same time in the context of worst

1:47.1

best sellers it really felt to me like as if I were a skilled neurosurgeon who had just

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