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Verity: Gerçeğin Diğer Kıyısı by Colleen Hoover

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bizknitsbooks's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Okay, I don't know how to feel about this book. Did I like it? I think so? Could I put it down? No f'ing way. Of course the writing was phennomenal, and I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see what happened, both in the manuscript and also between the main characters. I hated Verity (the character) which was obviously the point, and felt so much for Jeremy and his little family. But that ending, holy shit. This might be up there in terms of biggest plots twists I've read in a while. Wowzers. Well done 👏

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honey_bee_reads's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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poisebooks's review against another edition

4.5

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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ninaevan's review against another edition

3.5

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

For me personally, writing styles like Colleen Hoover’s usually cap at a 3.5/3.75, but for the majority of this book I was ready for that expectation to be exceeded. Great concept, great set up, great mystery/suspense. Tho there’s a good touch of cheesy, it’s not too much to make it unenjoyable. So much potential and it all weighed on a great gut punching reveal… that, imo, was not delivered. You never wanna leave a mystery novel thinking that you can imagine a better twist. That said, I can’t pretend I wasn’t on the edge of my seat, eating it up, for 90% of the book and for that I feel some credit is due. Solid 3.75, as expected.

Tho, warning to any audio readers: I did not at all like the voice actors in this audiobook so I think it would be a better experience to read the text.

My scoring:
5 | =everyone in the world must read this book
4.75 | =between 4.5 and 5
4.5 | =dessert island book
4.25 | =between 4 and 4.5
4 | =great, solid, reccomendable book
3.75 | =may not be a 4, but I had a good time
3.5 | = rough patches but not bad
3.25 | =between 3 and 3.5
3 | =meh
2 | =not good
1 | =bad

My options on the ending:

Loved the happy ending fake out and the ominous note the story was left on, but it needed to go a bit darker. The whole book, I was waiting for the story to turn on its head and reveal Jeremy to be behind everything- and while I would have predicted it, I think that would have turn the book up a notch for me. That or something else more sinister… idk I felt like I needed a bit more of a kick. Also, maybe it was the fault of bad audio acting but Jeremy was so limp. Outside of the sex scenes, I couldn’t help picturing him as some frail older man, like the type to speak with whistle tones. And then when there were sex scenes, I was basically imagining a whole different person, not really related to Jeremy’s character. Just felt like Hoover was shoe horning a steamy love interest into a story that didn’t have one? Idk. The fact that he was down to have sex in that proximity to his living wife with out knowing if she can hear..? Ew. April def already had that talk w him he just didn’t care? Also the fact that Jeremy had read the manuscript before (and the whole having an affair thing) was a plot hole. Woulda made much more sense if he was the villain.

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emmamortjones_5's review against another edition

4.25

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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kaylaboevers's review against another edition

4.5

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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kelseyr713's review against another edition

2.0

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

As you can see by the dates read, this is definitely written in a compelling way. I had to know what happened next, so I’ve been on my couch all day. I was really hoping to love this one since it’s so hyped up everywhere I turn. But ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

1) The sex scenes are repetitive and not even particularly well-written. At least they’re not purple prose, but yeesh.
2) There is one HUGE plot hole that makes everything fall apart.
3) The characters do not feel real or developed. I didn’t care about anything that was happening to them because they’re so two-dimensional. Why does Lowen love Jeremy so much??? He is BORING!!!!! And vis versa!!!!!
4) WHY DOES IT TAKE HER SO LONG TO READ THE MANUSCRIPT??? Each chapter is so short! She could have whipped through it in a day and showed it to Jeremy immediately. It’s padded out for plot reasons.
5) The ending feels like a complete and utter cop-out and/or the author ran out of steam and couldn’t decide what to do.

Content warning: MASSIVE amounts of child abuse.

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