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    My teenage daughter doesn’t love reading but loves rom coms and that Colleen Hoover book that was probably age inappropriate. Help with suggestions!

    She and I have been watching Nobody Wants This, the Netflix romcom series with Adam Brody and Kristen Bell. She says reading is boring but finished "It Ends with Us" in like two days. I'm sure if it's popular on Tiktok that couldn't hurt.

    by Gorp_Morley

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    3. bad_teacher46 on

      You don’t say how old your daughter actually is but I’m a life long reader and now an English teacher and that’s probably because I got to read stuff that wasn’t age appropriate for me. Let her read Colleen Hoover. She’s inspired a lot of young readers. Some of my best students now are the ones who are hiding books like those or the fantasy books like ACOTAR series but these are 16-17 year-olds.

    4. Hazel_nut1992 on

      Emily Henry has some good RomComs, I read a lot of Nora Roberts and Sophie Kinsella at that age, Kathrine Center is a current favourite.

    5. TheHappyExplosionist on

      If she’s into it, encourage her to read it! Even if it’s “age inappropriate” – it lets her test and figure out her own boundaries in a safe way. You can also use it as a chance to discuss things with her – what did you like? what did you not like? – and encourage her to stop reading if she finds something makes her uncomfortable. Or it can give her a chance to work out WHY it makes her uncomfortable. All good lessons to teach kids, I think.

      As for suggestions, she should definitely look up more Colleen Hoover if she likes it, and she might like A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (I hear the kids like it) or Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (I think the kids these days like that one too??). I recently found Danielle Vega’s The Merciless an enjoyable read in a similar vein, if she wants something a little spookier.

    6. MisterRogersCardigan on

      She might like Christina Lauren, Abby Jimenez, Jennifer Crusie (older but still funny), and Jen DeLuca.

    8. Postingatthismoment on

      There’s a whole world of trashy romances for her to read.  Encourage her to read historical romances.  When I’m teaching world history at my university (I’m a professor), I joke with my students that everything I learned about history as a teen was by reading sleazy romance novels.  

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