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Verity: Gerçeğin Diğer Kıyısı by Colleen Hoover

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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

I was really enjoying this the whole way through but I have pretty mixed feelings about the ending . It was super fast paced, super dark in a very intriguing way and every character was kinda suss. But the ending, the letter, was just way too far fetched for me to have any kind of reaction to it other than 'wait seriously, thats the twist?'. I get its kinda up to interpretation but it did feel like it just kinda came out of nowhere.

It didn't even need to have a twist, not all thrillers need to have a twist to be great story. But the entire way through it felt like little hints were being given about other characters being suss that very much felt like they were leading up to some big twist, but instead they led nowhere and a random, unbelievable twist instead. Idk, I know the twist works for a lot of people who love this book, but I can't help but kinda just feel cheated by the ending.

That said, the rest of the book I really enjoyed and thought it was brilliantly done. 

Okay third edit (credit for it making you think haha): very mild spoilers btw
Lowen kinda sucked, which fair enough, but honestly mostly she was just kinda dumb, frustratingly so and looking back, deliberately so. It was very convenient to the plot and to make the reveals more shocking that Lowen just showed no common sense the whole way through, which I kinda get, but also again seems kinda cheap. <spoilers>  that said, the more I think about it the more like into it I feel, so just from the amount there is to discuss and debate about it, 4 stars


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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

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dark emotional 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

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challenging dark emotional 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

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dark mysterious 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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dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

'the woman was too stunned to speak' pretty represents my state reading this....

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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: Complicated

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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dark emotional mysterious reflective 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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dark emotional 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

I'll start off by saying this book was extremely well written. The plot toyed with you just enough that you always wanted to know more. I did read it in about three days. 

With this particular story, I gave it a slightly lower rating not because of the book itself, but because of my own preferences - at the end of the day, I do not think this book was written for me..

I appreciate the bold, dark and twisted turns this novel takes. It explores area's that are not often spoken of or explored and I do believe that starting those conversations is an important role to be had.

[[ Below contains slight spoiler. No direct events are mentioned, though it does hint at the tone of the final outcome of this novel, which could still spoil the reveal for some. It has been appropriately marked/covered]] 

At the end of the day, however, I prefer my stories to be a little bit happier.
Even the conclusion of this novel is left with a bit of a dark, bitter implication behind it.
Which, ad previously stated, is not inherently bad, however it is not my cup of tea. 

Still an excellent novel and will be a fast read for anyone who is looking for such things.

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