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Verity by Colleen Hoover

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savannabraylin's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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laurak483's review against another edition

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challenging 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

2.75

I feel like the author was trying so hard from the literal first sentence to scream "this book is dark and edgy" that it took away from the build of suspense and creepiness later in the book. I'm not sure I even really liked the book, but it definitely gripped me and I finished it in basically 2 days, the bulk being the second day where I meant to go to bed almost 2 hours earlier than I did because I needed to know what was going to happen. I didn't find any of the characters really redeemable or likable and I'm also one of the least maternal people ever and will never be having kids (currently 32 and child-free by choice and plan to stay that way), but I still found the parts about pregnancy and motherhood kind of disturbing at times. Which is what the author was going for anyway so she did her job but maybe too well.

My biggest struggle is every character but the "villain" just seemed so boring and had almost no personality. And don't even get me started on the bonus chapter. I wish I had never read the bonus chapter because it just seems like it invalidates a lot of the book and makes it feel like even the author doesn't know who is actually in the wrong and who is responsible of what misdeeds by the end of her story. That and just how cringy and "millennial-white-woman-trying-to-be-unique" almost all the character's names were. Lowen, Chastin, Crew, wtf is this and why do they sound like lipstick shade names or names for furniture pieces at some high-end store?

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katie_23's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.5

this book is dark, definitely don’t read it if you can’t do gore or horror!! i hate the affair but the plot twist at the end made me question everything. the wife made me so mad.

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lou_loo's review against another edition

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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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gkreads18's review

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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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kaylarooker's review against another edition

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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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