Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Verity by Colleen Hoover

275 reviews

lucykae's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Child death, Gaslighting, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Car accident and Blood

hailey_brueggen's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Murder, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Ableism, Child death, Violence, and Gaslighting

Minor: Abortion and Child abuse

rosedustgirl's review against another edition

adventurous dark lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

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

1.0

Usual tropes and predictable plot, the characters are not redeemable or likeable at all, the only part I did enjoy was the ending and was wishful throughout we could have followed Verity. Alas, we had beige toast instead.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Medical content, Self harm, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, and Suicide attempt

fink1129's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Car accident, Grief, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Child death, Chronic illness, Vomit, and Child abuse

lavaly_1's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Infidelity, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Sexual violence, Death, Car accident, Gaslighting, Sexual content, and Domestic abuse

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

emwright_33's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Child abuse, Murder, Mental illness, Abortion, Medical trauma, Car accident, Chronic illness, Death, Self harm, and Sexual content

emkrob's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Child abuse, and Medical trauma

thebookaddict's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

🇳🇱: Dit boek was een ander soort thriller dan verwacht. In het begin vond ik hem erg oppervlakkig. Ik had niet het idee dat ik een thriller las. Later werd dit duidelijker. Het is niet echt een thriller vol gebeurtenissen, maar vooral de vibe is spannend. Je zit de hele tijd te wachten op actie die uitgesteld wordt. Ik had de hele tijd al het idee wat het plot zou zijn, maar het einde had ik zeker niet verwacht.  Voordat je in dit boek begint zou ik wel de trigger warnings lezen, want die kunnen vrij heftig zijn!

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    This book was a different kind of thriller than expected. At first I thought he was very superficial. I didn't feel like I was reading a thriller. This became clearer later. It is not really a thriller full of events, but the vibe is especially exciting. You spend the whole time waiting for action to be postponed. I had an idea all along what the plot would be, but I certainly didn't expect the ending. Before you start this book, I would read the trigger warnings, because they can be quite intense!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical trauma, Medical content, Alcohol, Child abuse, Death, Grief, Miscarriage, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Abandonment, Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Cursing, Sexual content, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Murder, Self harm, and Violence

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