Reviews tagging 'Death'

Verity by Colleen Hoover

1636 reviews

dkenn's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

WTF — I don’t even know what to say w/ this one.  It was good, really good, but also — really twisted. 
I’m also biased on why CH didn’t include a trigger warning page. This book truly needs one!
Otherwise, I’d recommend you read it at least once. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Abortion, and Murder

tammyhai's review

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? No

3.75

I really enjoyed the journey of the book--at first. Verity was intense, psychotic, and a creepy little villain. I kept waiting for the big twist and I was really disappointed by the end. What a letdown! I think I'm in the minority with my disappointment but honestly when it comes to Colleen Hoover, I don't agree with the rest of the world. While everyone else was swooning over "It Ends with Us," I was underwhelmed. My original criticism of Hoover stands. She's not that great of a writer. Her skills are probably where mine are at. We can write passable YA material but we'll never win pulitzers. But I also think Hoover has exciting ideas that she struggles to execute. 

I do wonder if her flimsy descriptions of our leads are purposeful. We know Jeremy is hot, his looks give our female lead the tingles in every which way. But our female lead suffers from Bella Swan syndrome, she's a fuzzy image that the reader is probably supposed to paste their faces onto. Which may be tantalizing and fun for some readers but not what I'm looking for in a book. 

If you're looking for a dark and twisted thriller, you may need to look elsewhere. The ending is tepid and I really wish the "twist" packed a bigger punch. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Violence, and Car accident

shmear's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Murder

alisiakae's review

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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, and Car accident

brideal's review

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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 Death

Moderate: Infidelity, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Vomit and Death of parent

illeling05's review

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

It really is a good story and I love the ending. Such a beautifully made plot leaving you with goosebumps. 

There has been moments where I've felt disgust, sadness, anger and awe to the stories. 

The only thing I wish, is that I was aware of how graphic and sexual some of the content was... Which made me skip some lines here and there.

Eitherway, it's an amazing story which I recommend. The plot is well made and at the end you won't know what is true and what is not.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual content, Abortion, and Murder

Moderate: Death and Violence

Minor: Cursing and Pregnancy

casaphaletook's review

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Blood, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Self harm and Vomit

sapuri123's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, and Death

matthewmclane's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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 death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Abortion, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Body horror, Domestic abuse, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Miscarriage

mmx_sa21's review

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

4.0

I still don’t know after reading this book which one is telling the truth. The book was great and I really liked how it followed Verity throughher life in a manuscript. The ending was surprising as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Grief