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Verity by Colleen Hoover

1041 reviews

nneka23's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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 and Infertility

Moderate: Child abuse and Car accident

Minor: Pregnancy

ninjam_13's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

3.5

This book was suspenseful enough for me to keep on reading, and keep me on the edge of my seat. But, I felt like it could’ve reached the plot twist way sooner instead of rushing it at the end. While the plot twist wasn’t what I thought and somewhat unexpected, it was underwhelming. Some details were totally irrelevant and the spicy scenes were waaay to explicit and unnecessarily descriptive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Child death, Child abuse, Sexual content, and Abortion

Moderate: Infidelity and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Car accident

el_wheel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I actually, rather grudgingly, have to give this a good rating. It's ridiculous, it's batshit crazy. It made me laugh at moments it shouldn't have *because* it was batshit crazy. But it did have me invested and the ending did actually get me. I wasn't expecting that. And the writing was good barring the profound amount of sex and absurdity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Sexual content, Grief, Cancer, Gaslighting, Child death, Death, Medical content, Car accident, Vomit, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Child abuse, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Infidelity, and Gore

Moderate: Ableism, Abortion, and Death of parent

samantha914's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Vomit, Sexual content, and Murder

Minor: Car accident, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Pregnancy, and Child abuse

shansometimes's review against another edition

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Grief, and Sexual content

Moderate: Medical content and Pregnancy

Minor: Vomit

laurenellisx's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Medical content, Abortion, and Gaslighting

xmel99'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

5.0

From the first page I did not want to put this book down! It was thrilling and mysterious with a lot of plot twists. The ending was completely shocking and I cannot stop thinking about it! Loved this book and would 10/10 recommend. 

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Content Warnings

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

lilawsahar's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

What a unique plot. I have never read or heard of a story similar to this one. 

I loved how this was staged. A ghost writer who thinks the original writer is faking her paralysis. A manuscript that makes the original writer sound like a psychopath. A rocky past. I can’t decide if the original author is just really good at writing or a psychopath. I feel like she’s a psychopath, but I don’t know. I wish the ending was slower. I don’t like how Jeremy just kills Verity on spot. It was so quick. I get that the letter is supposed to 180 a-ha moment but I wish the turn around time between the two was slower or written differently.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Infidelity, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, Pregnancy, Murder, Death, Blood, and Child death

Minor: Car accident and Vomit

vaehangel's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Abortion

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Murder

jillianm713's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

2.0

This book pissed me off. I started skimming it just because I wanted to know what happened, but not because it was a gripping thriller but because I was annoyed and just wanted it to be done. The insertions of Verity’s unpublished manuscript were the parts that I found most interesting (don’t know what that says about me as a person)

so once it was revealed that those parts were just a writing exercise and she wasn’t actually that horrible of a mother just made me mad and reduces all the stakes down to nothing.

I was interested in what was happening, hence the additional star, but it ultimately left me annoyed and angry. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Child death, Child abuse, Abortion, Car accident, and Medical trauma