Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Verity by Colleen Hoover

2417 reviews

arychaaa's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

Verity helped me get out of my funk & back into reading. It kept me hooked right from the beginning, and I couldn’t put it down!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Child abuse, and Murder

selfbetty's review against another edition

I could not take the scenes about the abuse of the children. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Abortion, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent

cewright521's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Death of parent

savannabraylin's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Murder, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Death, Body horror, and Physical abuse

chelseapwalsh's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Child death

katie_23's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

this book is dark, definitely don’t read it if you can’t do gore or horror!! i hate the affair but the plot twist at the end made me question everything. the wife made me so mad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child death, Abortion, and Child abuse

the wife

is so freaking annoying, killing her kids because she jealous of the dad loving them more? wtf lady?

wailana94's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion and Child abuse

Moderate: Child abuse

lou_loo's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

Honestly, I have to say the story was captivating, I read it in a day. This is the only positive point in this story.
I wouldn't call this a thriller, maybe a mediocre one... The characters are all horrible and twisted.

The memoir real or not, choose to believe what you want, (I'm completely sure it was real, CoHo even said it in an interview) was dark and horrible, I mean I understand that child abuse exists and it's important to talk about it to raise awareness and stop it, but don't use it for shock value in such a terrible book, and don't add pure smut scenes in between these horrifying moments...

Overall, badly written, and had bad characters and honestly the plot wasn't even scary or mysterious honestly we could get the outline of the plot twist easily from the first 25% of the book.
I would put trigger warnings on child abuse and murder/murderous thoughts along with useless shock-value gore...
And never recommend it to anyone.
It's the 3rd and last CoHo book I'm reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child abuse, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Murder, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Gore, Abortion, and Suicide attempt

sahux's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse

gkreads18's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

what the hell was that ending

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual content, Child abuse, and Murder