Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Verity by Colleen Hoover

44 reviews

mochikochicken's review against another edition

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Blood, Body horror, Mental illness, Gore, Miscarriage, Abortion, Self harm, and Torture

artistic_nightsky's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Violence, Abortion, Body shaming, Child death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Torture, and Vomit

cass_booktok's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This book is messed up and in a very good way, left me chills down my spine and unexpectedly, made my stomach turn!!! Just make sure you check the triggers 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Child death, Murder, and Torture

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

stephee1984's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Abortion, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, and Torture

haleygreenmiley's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Murder, Torture, and Emotional abuse

darkclouds's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

1.0

Predictability, you say?

Unless I'm a genius, then this book was up to it's eyeballs in it. I think we can safely establish that I'm not a genius. Was I played like a fool? Yes. When it came to giving into the hype for this book.

A common mistake I seem to repeatedly encounter, is giving the benefit of the doubt. You know the term 'disappointed, but not surprised'? I admit I'm always a little surprised. Notably when it comes to Hoover's works. Some. Not all, I should mention. Some are just plain disastrous and there's no amount of divine intervention that could save those.

Verity. Verity. Verity.

It's a romance. Let's get that straight. A truly messed up one, yes, but a romance nonetheless. If you hate the miscommunication trope - ABORT MISSION. Don't give yourself to the soul sucking drainage you experience from reading this story.

If Lowen made you wish to gauge out your own eyes, please say aye. Irritable is not the term I'd use, but the author tried to gaslight us into believing she's a victim. She'll know when she's doing something wrong, or what would be most shameful... but she'll do it later anyway and act all Hail Mary. She was a ghost of a reminder of Layken from Slammed. Which made me want to slam my head against the door.

There was potential. As I kept reading I told myself this could be redeemed. End it right, prove me wrong. Tell me I'm over thinking things. For a brief moment, I appreciated the twist we get slapped with. We have bits of creepy thrills. This could get better.

Reader, don't do it. Don't give yourself false hope. That's all I can say.

Final words?

Stupid. Absolutely doggone ridiculous. 

TRIGGER WARNINGS TAGGED.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Torture, and Abortion

claireisagrisha's review against another edition

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? Yes

4.25

TEAM MANUSCRIPT!!!!!!!!!!

For the Team Letter people out there, how could you think Verity didn’t do kill her daughter? Like she admitted to attempting to kill her daughter in the womb!! And she only wrote the letter when Lowen read the manuscript. 

I don’t personally like Jeremy and Lowen together. I guess Jeremy likes crazy girls. Lol. Jeremy doesn’t seem fully trustworthy either tho … he did immediately try to kill Verity when he read the manuscript. 

Colleen Hoover could somehow convince me that Verity killed her daughter and Jeremy tried to kill her. Therefore meaning parts of letter and manuscript are real. For Lowen’s sake, I hope not. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Toxic relationship, Child death, Torture, Vomit, Child abuse, and Car accident

Moderate: Alcoholism and Grief

theqwerty's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Vomit, Abortion, Child abuse, Child death, Grief, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual content, Death, and Gaslighting

carol_c26's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

1.5

meh didn't really like the book and it was very predictable. I feel like a lot of the appeal comes from the scandal of it all but it's just poorly written and I’m not super interested in this sensationalism. feels like it's just a bunch of sad and dark stuff thrown in together for a sad and dark soup 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Body horror, Child death, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Ableism, Addiction, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Torture, Abortion, Infertility, Infidelity, Medical content, and Self harm