Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Verity by Colleen Hoover

122 reviews

marmander's review

dark emotional sad 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

3.5

I couldn’t put it down, but this book is an insane wild ride. It’s not the best written book to be honest? But there’s lots of twists and turns that make you want to finish it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Self harm, Violence, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

bella613's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

4.0

This was... definitely something. 

I liked it until chapter 23. The last few chapters felt boring, rushed, and lazy after all the build up. 
But actually I don't know if "I liked it" is quite the right way to put it. Reading this book gave me the same feeling as when you overhear a juicy piece of gossip about something horrible. It makes you dislike the person who did the thing, the people who are gossiping about it, and kinda also yourself for listening in. Every character in this book is so incredibly terrible (except maybe the children but they weren't well developed) and it felt more like I had to read it than wanted to. 
The writing isn't great but Hoover definitely does a great job at making you love to hate her characters. Maybe the hype around her is hate-bonding, like when students group together in class because you hate the professor and the material and then after you leave and look back, it looks like a positive experience because of the community made within the hate. 
Anyway, this was difficult to rate and I might change it later once I've had time to think about it. It's better than what I expected because I heard a lot of fuss over the author and wasn't interested because of that. A colleague suggested this book to me and I took a long time to actually pick it up. I don't think I'd necessarily recommend it but I am going to read more by the author (mostly because of the movie coming out lol) 
Also can I just say: Colleen Hoover was marketed to me as a romance author. Unless the other books she writes are drastically different than this, she definitely is quite the opposite of a romance style writer...?? This is not romance (although not decisively thriller, either?) I would probably call it horror but tbh it doesn't fit great there either. Idk what to call it but there is zero romance whatsoever. Sex scenes, yes, and some weirdly obsessive lust from all the characters but not romance. Maybe the people hating on her and judging the authors morals based on her fiction books are just classifying this incorrectly 😂

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

leticiasmugala's review

dark mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, and Murder

aimeefranks'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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

peachie_pie's review

dark mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.75

OMG. I LOVE the twisty nature of this book. Whilst a little slow to start you’ll want to clear up your calendar for the second half of this book. Oh my. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Grief, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Car accident, Abortion, and Death of parent

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

Moderate: Cancer and Death of parent

Minor: Ableism, Fatphobia, and Blood

lizkdsb's review

challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

charliebites's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• 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, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Confinement, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

dyilmaz090's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

whatchareadingheather'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? It's complicated

2.5

Did I think this was a perfect plot? No, and I feel like I've seen a few movies that do this same thing. BUT, I will say that I can see how people can get hooked by Hoover's writing because I found myself really wanting to just drop everything to read this book. If I had a day to do absolutely nothing, I 1000% would've devoured this in one go.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Confinement, Infertility, Infidelity, Blood, Car accident, and Abortion