Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Verity by Colleen Hoover

707 reviews

dyilmaz090's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Abortion, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Death, Violence, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Child death, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Murder, and Pregnancy

fetherfall's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Grief, Gaslighting, Violence, Toxic relationship, Murder, Miscarriage, Hate crime, and Emotional abuse

emmalindsay's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

3.75

this book is mentally ill 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

eujenia_m's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Abortion, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

madalina0_0's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Terminal illness, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Murder, Vomit, Violence, Addiction, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Death of parent, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Infertility, Medical content, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

username330's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Torture, Self harm, Murder, Child death, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Abortion, Grief, and Blood

Moderate: Miscarriage, Chronic illness, Suicide attempt, and Cursing

Minor: Medical content, Cancer, Car accident, Kidnapping, Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry, and Death of parent

mlampe's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Abortion, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Child abuse, and Grief

Minor: Vomit

meganb1352's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

I did not like this book. The pacing kept you wanting to keep reading but it was too graphic in abuse and neglect/death.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Child death, and Child abuse

mmarquis1158's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.5

I will admit that this book had me on the edge of my seat throughout the whole thing. The whole time I was just so anxious to figure out what in the world was going on. However, this was one of those books where I didn’t like a single character and found it really hard to root for anyone. Every single person had such messed up motivations. I also felt like the amount of graphic sex scenes was totally unnecessary. I feel like a writer shouldn’t have to rely on spicy scenes to keep readers engaged (especially in an thriller) and that was the vibe I got in this book. As someone who approached this book looking for an eerie thriller (which was how the book presented itself), I was rather annoyed that 70% of the content was spice. No shame to those who enjoy spice in a book, but I found it frustrating that it kind of overshadowed everything else. If it wasn’t for the fact that I was desperate to figure out what was going on and had a ton of time on my hands, I probably wouldn’t have finished it. But I’ll give CoHo some credit with the fact that the main plot drew me in enough to keep reading. Unfortunately the only reason I was so drawn to find out how it ended was because I was completely baffled by the horrible and disturbing thoughts of Verity and I wanted to see some justice. Once again, I felt like I couldn’t root for a single character 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Gaslighting, and Sexual content

Moderate: Murder

livslibraryy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

1.5

um….what….

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, Violence, Sexual violence, Vomit, Medical trauma, Death, Abortion, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, and Death of parent