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Verity by Colleen Hoover

109 reviews

amanda_hoog's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Child abuse, Child death, Grief, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Pregnancy

Minor: Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

allena_inwonderland's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

Rating this a 4 ✨

Started with a banger and I loved that it grabbed my attention quickly. I think Colleen Hoover has a very simple writing style that makes it easy to devour.
I really enjoyed Verity’s manuscript. Definitely some creep factors and disturbing parts. 
Please look up TW!

Now for the reason it isn’t a 5 star -
Lowen annoyed tf out of me hahah. Definitely a pick me girl
I think because of loving thrillers and suspense books it made the twist easier for me to predict. I was left some what underwhelmed 😩

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Abortion, Murder, and Abandonment

meghancraft's review against another edition

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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

victoriaachuu's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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 abuse, Blood, Abortion, and Abandonment

Minor: Body horror and Car accident

jen1804's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

This was an interesting novel. Much darker than Hoover’s other novels I’ve read with more focus on the plot and it’s twists than the romance this time. I knew the book was a thriller and would likely have a plot twist coming and as such spent the whole book feeling suspicious of every character I was introduced to. Overall there were parts of the writing that I admired and other parts I didn’t really care much for. Overall a good read and one which makes you question what you know as the reader.
Satisfactory ending? Yes and also no.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Car accident and Death of parent

mollyquinn's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Terminal illness, and Abortion

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Car accident, Abortion, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

nxclx'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? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Holy shit. 5/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse

Minor: Excrement

thosebookishpages's review against another edition

dark 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? No

1.0

getting straight to the point- if you've read Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and then read Verity, you know exactly what im gonna talk about in this review.
I feel like Colleen Hoover read Rebecca and decided that she wants to write Rebecca Fanfiction, and thats how this book was born. so many of the plot points, character arcs and plot twists have been picked up from Rebecca and just directly thrown into this book, so i made a list of those :)

Rebecca and Verity:
- Title is the wife’s names (Rebecca and Verity)
- Nameless character-character with more than one name (lack of identity)
- Older man falling in love dynamic
- Wife dead/can’t move around by her self so incapable of doing things
- The house’s description, the driveway, everything
- Trusted maid/nurse who judges the main character and doesn’t like her (Mrs. Danvers and April)
- Verity’s office- Rebecca’s morning room
- The conflict of not being as good as Verity/Rebecca
- Landscape surrounding the house
- Husband killing the wife and getting away with it

i honestly tried so hard to like this book but it just wasn't for me. the main reason for this was the fact that the author's originality was lost amongst all the points she took from Rebecca. even the writing just wasn't doing it for me. i feel like it lacked nuance and wasn't refined.
SO MANY of the things in this book were disturbing to an extent that it was physically hard for me to continue reading. the way in which the things were described was so traumatic and unnecessary, i feel like this shouldn't have been the case and it shouldn't have been written in the first place. (please read the trigger warnings before reading the book)

i don't know what else to say about this apart from the fact that i didn't like this book.
the only good critique is that Colleen Hoover is fairly good at writing horror/supernatural elements and i would've enjoyed this book much more if i got to see more of that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Minor: Body horror, Cancer, Vomit, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

kathelijn's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, Abortion, Murder, and Abandonment

rachh55's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Omg I loved this book. I read it in two days because I just couldn’t put it down without thinking about it. Currently in a reading slump due to this book because I wanted more and I loved the characters. Such crazy twists and turns. The book was nothing like I expected it to be and I love when that happens. Colleen Hoover PLEASE GIVE US MORE THRILLERS!!!!!! Book tok wasn’t lying, pick this book up and now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Abortion and Abandonment