Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Verity by Colleen Hoover

310 reviews

ksilvio's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

butcherlibrary's review against another edition

dark sad 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? Yes

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

lou_loo's review

dark fast-paced

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

2.0

Honestly, I have to say the story was captivating, I read it in a day. This is the only positive point in this story.
I wouldn't call this a thriller, maybe a mediocre one... The characters are all horrible and twisted.

The memoir real or not, choose to believe what you want, (I'm completely sure it was real, CoHo even said it in an interview) was dark and horrible, I mean I understand that child abuse exists and it's important to talk about it to raise awareness and stop it, but don't use it for shock value in such a terrible book, and don't add pure smut scenes in between these horrifying moments...

Overall, badly written, and had bad characters and honestly the plot wasn't even scary or mysterious honestly we could get the outline of the plot twist easily from the first 25% of the book.
I would put trigger warnings on child abuse and murder/murderous thoughts along with useless shock-value gore...
And never recommend it to anyone.
It's the 3rd and last CoHo book I'm reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Grief, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Sexual harassment

ninjam_13's review

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

Moderate: Infidelity and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Car accident

applegeorge's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• 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, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Abortion, and Murder

el_wheel's review

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

Moderate: Ableism, Abortion, and Death of parent

amberlynnnnn's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

thespinnychair's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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? Yes

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

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

kendrashea's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Abortion, and Suicide attempt