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Verity by Colleen Hoover

117 reviews

hailsatan's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Car accident, Abortion, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Sexual content, and Vomit

gmbooks11_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Abortion, Medical trauma, Medical content, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Death, Murder, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, Self harm, Body horror, Blood, Car accident, Abandonment, Body shaming, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, and Violence

jellyhavana's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Sexual content, Child death, Abortion, Vomit, and Child abuse

Moderate: Grief, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Murder, Miscarriage, Infidelity, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Fatphobia, Death of parent, and Car accident

coolkid's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

2.75

This was one of two Colleen Hoover books I read at the same time. I will give her this, her reading style is soo easy to consume. I can't believe how fast I got through these given how bad they are. This one is much better than Nov 9. Hoover's writing style is still for actual toddlers, but she does decent with darkness. If she didn't try to make it romantic, it might even be worth 3 stars. 

As is, though, this book is average at best. Lowen is very unlikable. Verity was a much more interesting character - and, as always, Hoover's shaming of motherly women who like sex remains a constant.

Also what's the weird deal with Lowan's drug addiction? Why was that never like... followed up on? And why did Crew eat a knife? Like? Hello?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Self harm, Death, Child death, Pregnancy, Murder, Mental illness, Child abuse, Misogyny, Infidelity, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Car accident, Suicide, Body shaming, and Vomit

Moderate: Drug abuse and Addiction

planetshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Colleen Hoover used trigger warnings as a checklist and over-explained things too much to maintain the ‘suspense’ aspect of this suspense novel, but I found myself enjoying it and looking forward to reading further.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Violence, Vomit, Death, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Child death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Abortion, Cursing, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death of parent, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Fatphobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, and Body shaming

Minor: Rape, Alcohol, and Drug use

dev921's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Blood, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Vomit, Ableism, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Pregnancy

lindasoderlundd's review against another edition

challenging 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? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Child death, Cursing, Murder, Body shaming, Infidelity, Vomit, Child abuse, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Grief, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Car accident, and Confinement

Minor: Terminal illness, Animal death, Alcohol, Cancer, and Suicide attempt

tatimarie8284's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-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

kept me hooked from the beginning. i loved the switching povs from lowen and verity. so many twists and turns yet i did not expect the ending.

i’m definitely team manuscript though

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Infidelity, Murder, Abortion, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, Child abuse, Child death, Gaslighting, and Sexual content

Moderate: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Stalking, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Self harm, Vomit, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, and Cursing

sweater_swetha's review against another edition

• 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

2.0

First of all, wtf was that opening scene? It was so graphic and gory, but for what? Literally nothing would have changed if it had been deleted replaced with  a coffee-spilling meet-cute. I literally forgot it happened by the end because of how irrelevant it was. 

This book tried so hard to do an unreliable narrator thing by having the main character be a sleepwalker and taking a couple Xanax. That’s it. There was no subtlety in anything, which I would argue is the single most important thing when writing an unreliable narrator. This book also overrides any of the thriller aspects with garbage smut scenes and a romance that adds next to nothing to the book. The ending “twist” (it wasn’t much of a twist) was really really stupid and made no sense. It just added so many unnecessary plot holes, and kind of just felt like the author just wanted to slap it on so that we could pretend there was a mystery this whole time. There isn’t. Nothing thrilling actually happens in the actual plot. It’s honestly a little sad though, because the premise is really interesting, and with a better thriller/mystery writer, could have been so much more interesting and thought provoking. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Gore, Murder, Car accident, and Child death

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Drug use, and Suicide

Minor: Mental illness and Body shaming

sldibened's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Murder, Abandonment, Chronic illness, Cursing, Body shaming, Car accident, Violence, Abortion, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Mental illness, Fatphobia, Gore, Pregnancy, Self harm, and Sexual content