Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Verity by Colleen Hoover

2374 reviews

wailana94's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion and Child abuse

Moderate: Child abuse

lou_loo's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.0

Honestly, I have to say the story was captivating, I read it in a day. This is the only positive point in this story.
I wouldn't call this a thriller, maybe a mediocre one... The characters are all horrible and twisted.

The memoir real or not, choose to believe what you want, (I'm completely sure it was real, CoHo even said it in an interview) was dark and horrible, I mean I understand that child abuse exists and it's important to talk about it to raise awareness and stop it, but don't use it for shock value in such a terrible book, and don't add pure smut scenes in between these horrifying moments...

Overall, badly written, and had bad characters and honestly the plot wasn't even scary or mysterious honestly we could get the outline of the plot twist easily from the first 25% of the book.
I would put trigger warnings on child abuse and murder/murderous thoughts along with useless shock-value gore...
And never recommend it to anyone.
It's the 3rd and last CoHo book I'm reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child abuse, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Murder, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Gore, Abortion, and Suicide attempt

sahux's review against another edition

mysterious 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? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse

gkreads18'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

3.5

what the hell was that ending

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual content, Child abuse, and Murder

mariapfarr's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

kaylarooker's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.75

My medical degree gave away the plot twist before it was even suspected by the FMC

@ the ending: i don’t even know which is the truth and that low key pisses me off because if you’ve going to deceive me the whole time at least tell me if you actually did or not. 

I’m choosing to believe the manuscript. Psychos for the win.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Murder, Sexual content, Child death, and Grief

Moderate: Blood, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Abortion

zoe_333's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Child abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Death, Toxic relationship, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Infidelity

sk_thrillerreads's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

Epitome of psychological thriller. So many thoughts. Wild ride. Head scratcher. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Child death

sarabeth_27's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Grief, and Abortion

Just be cautious reading the manuscript chapters

soapfaced's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Blood and Child death