Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Verity by Colleen Hoover

20 reviews

yourlocalredpanda's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Decent thriller. For my first (and probably last) CoHo book, I enjoyed reading it for the mess it was, even if the writing or characters weren't very good... Literally 50% of this book was sexual content, which I was NOT expecting going into it and kind of made it a pain to have to skip through every few chapters, and why did it have to be a main part of the manuscript too?? I don't understand, Colleen...

That twist at the end... why? Just why? (In case anyone wanted to know, I'm team letter because if that was really the truth, then the whole situation is actually insane and mind boggling to think about... like why is everyone unstable and probably unhinged??). 

Also, someone needs to take Cruise out of this mess of a family so a nice, stable family can adopt him and he can grow up in a non-traumatic environment - this poor child went through it :')

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Blood, and Sexual content

Moderate: Violence, Abortion, and Car accident

Minor: Misogyny

trishrva's review against another edition

I had to double check that this book wasn’t actually written by a man. I put the book down when I read the line “The mistake women make when they choose their clothes […], is that they don’t think about them from a man’s perspective.” Disgusting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Minor: Misogyny

madalina0_0's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Terminal illness, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Murder, Vomit, Violence, Addiction, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Death of parent, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Infertility, Medical content, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

revolutiondeathsquad's review against another edition

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

0.5

i went into this knowing i was gonna hate this, but as a hate-read it was incredibly entertaining. just not any good. please look at the content warnings before you read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Miscarriage, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Child abuse, Child death, Suicide attempt, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Misogyny

ladylucy22's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Ableism, Blood, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, Cursing, and Death

pam_'s review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

The best Colleen Hoover novel I’ve ever read. The twist at the end was actually good (though yes, there was a lengthy explanation). Parts of this book were horrifying. I was constantly trying to guess how it would end and I could not stop reading (finished this in four days). This reminded me of “Flowers in the Attic” by VC Andrews for some reason.

The only negative: the main character is annoying and downright unlikeable by the end (but it works with the ending imo).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Abortion, Blood, Child abuse, and Death

Minor: Ableism, Grief, Pregnancy, Violence, Medical content, Misogyny, Fatphobia, and Infidelity

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

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

giannaa01's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

this book was INSANE. i’ve never read a book like this but i loved it. 

the ending was absolutely INSANE. team manuscript or team letter?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Abortion, Death, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual content, and Child abuse

Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Car accident

Minor: Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Misogyny, and Suicide attempt

tanm's review against another edition

funny medium-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? It's complicated

2.0

🙄

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion and Sexual content

Moderate: Murder and Misogyny