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Verity by Colleen Hoover

55 reviews

holleymarie95's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Child abuse, Drug use, Child death, Vomit, Death, Murder, and Suicide attempt

witcheslovingwitches's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Violence, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Child death

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Murder, Vomit, and Pregnancy

Minor: Miscarriage, Gore, Car accident, Alcohol, Abortion, and Drug use

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

mimmixoxo's review against another edition

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? Yes

0.5

This book made me legit angry in the worst way possible. I don’t know how it ended up with 4 stars on here. Such immature writing and a terrible thriller piece, if I didn’t know any better I would say it was written by a 16 year old on wattpad. To all the people who think this is genuinely good thriller please read an actual thriller like Rebecca or anything by Shirley Jackson or Riley Sager. Or anything would be better than this honestly. (Gave it a .5 bc I got at least one emotion from reading this) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Gore, Ableism, Misogyny, Infidelity, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Blood, Violence, and Sexual content

Minor: Car accident and Drug use

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

worldofv33's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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, Murder, Gore, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Child abuse, Cursing, Violence, Mental illness, Abortion, Pregnancy, Blood, Car accident, Gaslighting, Grief, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer, Kidnapping, Drug use, and Rape

lindseyc's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Drug use, Child death, Pregnancy, Murder, Child abuse, and Car accident

squidknees's review against another edition

dark funny 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

3.25

Quick and fun. Thrilling!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Vomit, Child abuse, Suicide, Medical trauma, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Abortion, Alcohol, Violence, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Self harm, Medical content, Murder, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Infidelity, Body horror, Child death, Death of parent, Ableism, Torture, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Classism, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Drug use, and Dysphoria

Minor: Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, and Animal cruelty

ashjhenn's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Abortion, and Murder

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Alcohol, Drug use, and Vomit