Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Verity by Colleen Hoover

196 reviews

sarahl0726's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Blood, Abortion, Gore, and Death of parent

hon3y's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.25

look at the tws before

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Car accident, Murder, Body horror, Body shaming, Gore, Child death, Death, Violence, Self harm, and Toxic relationship

hannaheatsbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Child abuse, Child death, and Toxic relationship

l_myers'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? Yes

1.0

Meh. This sucked, by the 3rd chapter I knew basically exactly happened. The writing was poor and the general story sucked. Save yourself sometime and find a real thriller with a real plot. Please read content warnings you do to read this. I'm pretty sure I checked almost exactly half of the boxes.
 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Child abuse, Sexual content, Mental illness, Abortion, Violence, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

Moderate: Car accident, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Blood

weaverca's review against another edition

dark 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

2.0

Most of the time if I don't like a book, I'm quick to say it's a DNF. This book, however, is the first one where even though I was not enjoying it, I still finished it to see just how bad it was as a whole. A "hate read" if you will. First off, Colleen Hoover's writing is pretty bare bones which unfortunately leaves a lot of room for lacking depth or exploration.

Like I thought the skull-crushing car accident at the beginning would be important to the story later, but then it was just... not mentioned again until one short sentence at the end?

Disappointing. That also made it hard to like the characters, and if there's one thing I hate when it comes to books, it's when they have unlikeable "protagonists." Second, I've read better smut on Wattpad for fuck's sake. All of it was so tasteless and repetitive, almost catering to the male gaze instead of the women the book supposedly gears itself towards. Last, even though I somewhat enjoyed the Gone-Girl-flipped-on-its-head ending of it all, I saw it coming from a mile away.

Verity using the "autobiography" as a writing exercise feels like the contemporary equivalent of when we used to write "Then I woke up and realized it was all a dream" to end the stories we wrote when we were children.

All in all, I was not impressed- and often bored in fact- by this book, and I can't say I plan on reading any of Colleen's other garbage fires.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Gore, Grief, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, and Infidelity

Moderate: Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Kidnapping and Gaslighting

lostreader_101's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I couldn't put this book down I mean the characters were all so interesting and at the end I still don't know what to think. This book is creepy, thrilling, and very tense and dark. It's definitely a psychological thriller. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Violence, Cursing, Medical content, Grief, Child abuse, Infertility, Chronic illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Murder, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Gore, Gaslighting, and Child death

abooklikeyou's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, Cursing, and Sexual content

Moderate: Blood, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Gore, Medical trauma, and Murder

mac96's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

I did not like this book at all. I didn’t care about it, it wasn’t interesting, it was poorly written, and it was gross for shock value.  The only reason I did not DNF it immediately was that I read it for a book club that my MIL is part of and for her I will do anything 🫡 even push through the worst book I have ever read. 

The end twist was like an after-thought that didn’t make sense. I don’t even care if the letter was real or fake, the book was just bad and that little bit of mystery was not going to save it. All of the characters sucked and their motivations always fell flat. Also the names were stupid.

All in all it was a waste of time and there are a million better thrillers to spend money on. If you absolutely must read this book to see what the hype is about, get it from your library or other ways that don’t give this author any more money. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Child abuse, Sexual content, Child death, and Gore

Minor: Ableism

honeybunchesofoats06's review against another edition

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Child death, Death, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Abortion, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Miscarriage, Vomit, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Child abuse, Death of parent, Mental illness, Grief, Alcohol, and Cancer

justjay_xx's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Blood, Violence, Body horror, Abortion, Sexual content, Child abuse, and Murder