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Verity by Colleen Hoover

331 reviews

cjfooks's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Psychological thriller/drama/erotica. 

This book made me thoroughly enjoy being uncomfortable. There’s so many dark elements to it but the overall plot is fascinating and leaves you unsure what will happen at any given moment. 

It’s one of those books where you’re not sure if you can trust hard facts and then proves you right at the end.

Lots of sex that’s written in an excruciatingly uncomfortable but somehow still sexy way. 

It also falls into a weird category of I-don’t-like-the-main-character-but-I’m-still-routing-for-her, even though usually I can’t stand books like that. 

Honestly, I think it’s my favourite Colleen Hoover book so far. I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s better, but the horror undertones and overall uneasy plot appeals to the horror movie fan in me massively. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Child death, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content

ank3's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Abandonment, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Violence, Ableism, Death of parent, Abortion, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Grief, Murder, Torture, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Vomit

Minor: Cursing, Animal death, and Alcohol

shwoffy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Miscarriage, Abortion, and Car accident

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Self harm, Chronic illness, Murder, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Grief, and Gore

lizkdsb's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Murder, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Violence, Ableism, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Dysphoria, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Confinement, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

tish12's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I want to give it a 5 but something is stopping me and I don't know what. I don't know if it's the tense story stuff or a fault in a character or two. But overall I did love it if it wasn't for real life distractions I would have easily read in a day. 
Please read the warnings though. It's intense. I'm shocked how this went. Overall another great read from colleen hoover. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Death, Grief, Abandonment, Chronic illness, Bullying, Pregnancy, Cursing, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Blood, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Child death, and Mental illness

ballousclues's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

 

⭐️⭐️⭐️ - okay book. will not recommend to just anyone 

I just finished The Housemaid and saw lots of folks compare the book to Verity. So, it made sense to me for Verity to be my next read while The Housemaid was still fresh in my mind. That being said, take this review with a grain of salt. 

Verity was okay but the whole time I was waiting for it to be great. Colleen Hoover's books are all over Booktok, so I had high hopes. The writing was okay. The plot fell a bit flat for me and definitely relied heavily on shock factor. The characters were predictable. I found the main character - Lowen - to be insufferable sometimes. 

I want to try to read another one of Colleen Hoover's books to see if it's any better. I can't say this was a great first impression. I can appreciate that the book wants its reader to dive a bit deeper beneath the surface and question the reality that we are perceiving. 

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SPOILERS 

I can't say that I saw the twist coming at the end where Verity claims the manuscript was "fake," but the twist didn't offer the shock factor that I wish that it did. At that point, the book was so close to being finished that I didn't particularly care whether or not Verity did all the horrible things she claimed that she did. It frustrated me that the book ultimately ended with a happy ending for Lowen and Jeremy. It felt like the resolution of Verity's death/murder was rushed and that Hoover could have leaned more into the Letter to Jeremy at the end. It felt to me that things were wrapped up a little too neatly for them and their growing family.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Grief, Child death, Infidelity, Death of parent, Abortion, Sexual content, and Mental illness

Minor: Pregnancy, Chronic illness, and Suicide attempt

haley_mil_reads'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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Abortion, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Blood, Car accident, Murder, Infidelity, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Violence, Suicide attempt, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

justluck's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Child death, and Body horror

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Vomit

charliebites's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, Death, Child abuse, Abortion, Grief, Pregnancy, Murder, Violence, Car accident, and Child death

Moderate: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Confinement, Terminal illness, and Vomit

hiddeninfantasy's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Chronic illness, Suicide attempt, Fatphobia, Cancer, Murder, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Child abuse, Child death, Car accident, Blood, Violence, Abandonment, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Death of parent, Sexual content, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Ableism, Vomit, Body shaming, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy