Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Verity by Colleen Hoover

732 reviews

thespinnychair's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Blood, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Infertility, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Suicide, and Sexual content

forgedopulence's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

Every single character in this was a villain. I'm giving it 2 stars because I genuinely enjoyed the suspense, but if I believed in book burning, this would be one of the first victims. 

Verity makes me feel physically ill. Team manuscript. 
Lowen is spineless, invasive, clingy, and a homewrecker. 
Jeremy is also spineless, also a homewrecker, and somehow blinded to psychopathy with abundant fellatio. 

Something about the way this was written, just thinking about one mother writing another mother's perspective in this way, that makes my skin crawl.
Verity solidifies for me that I find nothing redeemable or admirable about CoHo's writing. This was my last attempt. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Infidelity, Abortion, Child death, Pregnancy, Self harm, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Grief, Blood, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Medical content, Excrement, and Violence

fictionalized_bliss's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Abortion, Body horror, Grief, Violence, Vomit, Self harm, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Car accident, Child abuse, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent and Cancer

Minor: Blood, Ableism, and Fatphobia

alansoranges's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Blood, Abortion, Sexual content, Violence, Child abuse, Death, Infidelity, Child death, Vomit, Grief, and Murder

tealightfultomes's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.5

I have never hated a set of characters so completely. And that ending made me internally scream. I'm not okay.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Child death, Child abuse, Sexual content, Murder, Abortion, Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

ank3's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Abandonment, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Violence, Ableism, Death of parent, Abortion, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Grief, Murder, Torture, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Vomit

Minor: Cursing, Animal death, and Alcohol

17nhammad's review against another edition

dark 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

3.0

the plot did not justify being forced to read all the atrocities and mediocre smut in this book. the ending felt like a cop out and left me wishing hoover had taken the horror route instead. the characters aside from verity herself felt extremely two-dimensional and the relationship between lowen and jeremy was forced at best.

the bland writing made this book extremely digestible and easy to read. i was able to finish it in two sittings, but i’m not sure that’s a good thing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Sexual content, Murder, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, and Car accident

shaira213's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Death, Child death, Blood, and Murder

shwoffy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Miscarriage, Abortion, and Car accident

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Self harm, Chronic illness, Murder, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Grief, and Gore

wookie42's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Blood, Murder, Death, and Death of parent