Bethsdoll posts book reviews ratings

Bethsdoll posted a book-review thread on X on September 8 that assigned star ratings to three novels: Ali Hazelwood’s “The Love Hypothesis,” Nick Cutter’s “The Troop,” and Colin Morgan’s “The Ballad of Ronan McCoy.” The post gave “The Love Hypothesis” four stars, “The Troop” five stars and “The Ballad of Ronan McCoy” 3.75 stars, according to a social-media briefing that identified the account as @bethsdoll and cited the specific status ID. The thread added to book discussion circulating on X on Tuesday, where user reviews and release chatter were appearing alongside posts about new titles and backlist reads, according to the same briefing. The three books in Bethsdoll’s post span romance, horror and contemporary literary fiction, placing older commercial titles next to a novel released in 2026. (x.com) ### Which books did Bethsdoll rate? “The Love Hypothesis” is a romance novel by Ali Hazelwood, published by Penguin Random House, and publisher materials describe it as a fake-dating story set around scientists. Bethsdoll’s thread rated that title at four stars. “The Troop” is a horror novel by Nick Cutter, and Simon & Schuster describes it as one of the author’s best-known books and says it is being developed for film. (x.com) Bethsdoll’s post gave that book the highest score in the thread at five stars. “The Ballad of Ronan McCoy” is a novel by Colin Morgan that HarperCollins says went on sale on June 18, 2026. Bethsdoll rated that book at 3.75 stars, the most granular score in the set. (x.com) ### Why does the 3.75-star score stand out? The 3.75-star rating stands out because the other two books were scored in whole stars. Bethsdoll’s use of a quarter-step score for “The Ballad of Ronan McCoy” suggests a more fine-grained ranking within the thread, though the post as described in the available sourcing lists ratings rather than a longer written review. (x.com) Colin Morgan’s book is also the newest of the three. HarperCollins lists “The Ballad of Ronan McCoy” as a 2026 release, while “The Love Hypothesis” and “The Troop” are earlier titles that have already built wide readerships through major publishers. ### What do the books have in common? All three titles are commercially published novels with established publisher pages, but they come from different parts of the market. (x.com) Penguin Random House lists Hazelwood’s book under contemporary romance, Simon & Schuster positions Cutter’s novel as horror, and HarperCollins describes Morgan’s book as a coming-of-age story about friendship, first love, loss and letting go. (penguinrandomhouse.com) That mix gives the thread the shape of a cross-genre reading log rather than a single-theme recommendation list. The ratings place the horror title first on score, followed by the romance title, with the 2026 literary release below both. ### Where did the post appear? The social post appeared on X under the handle @bethsdoll, according to the source briefing tied to status 2096672277375168995. (penguinrandomhouse.com) Available live retrieval of the X page did not return readable page text through the tool, but the status ID and the ratings were consistent across the supplied briefing material. September 8 is the date attached to the briefing that surfaced the thread, and the post remains identifiable through that status number on X. (x.com) Readers looking for the next step can find the ratings in bethsdoll’s thread under status 2096672277375168995, while the three books’ publisher pages provide the underlying title and release details for Hazelwood, Cutter and Morgan.