Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

Verity by Colleen Hoover

140 reviews

aleen_elizabeth's review against another edition

emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Miscarriage, Murder, Ableism, Death of parent, Car accident, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Abortion, Torture, Child abuse, Child death, Infidelity, Suicide attempt, Self harm, and Sexual content

frances_frances's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

1.0

I don't even know where to begin...But much of what I have to say has already been expressed by other reviewers so I'll keep this brief.

This book is not a thriller. The amount of detailed sex scenes was truly wild, almost comical. I ended up skipping through them as the book went on. It's fine for a book to be sexy, but it should been marketed as erotica (ie not a thriller!). But also I'm incredibly bored with, not to mention creeped out by, the "sexy thriller" genre. It usually ends up blurring the line between sex/desire and violence. Power is achieved through both sex and violence. This is rape culture!

The characters were flat and uninteresting. Jeremy was perfect to the point that it was annoyingly unrealistic. Verity was unknowable in a way that wasn't mysterious or clever, just poorly written. Lowen is also a nothing person. Nothing about the way she was written made me actually believe she herself was a writer. And her sleepwalking trauma was weird. I don't get what Hoover was trying to do there. Just felt lazy. Overall, the way trauma was written about came off as trauma porn. The characters are all defined by their trauma and Hoover revels in it.

Plot holes galore and an unsatisfying ending.

I could go on but it's all been said. This was my first and last Colleen Hoover book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Child abuse

Moderate: Ableism and Death

deathbybooks4482's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Ok this book is only getting 4 stars because of the ending. And the fact that the suspense was so well done.

BUT

I also couldn’t ignore how this book hinges on ableism. I wish the author had chosen a different trope or maybe tackled it in a more creative way to avoid its inherent ableism. Even addressing her characters’ ableism would have been great. But without any pushback within the text, it feels like the author just doesn’t have a great understanding of disability.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Infidelity, Child abuse, Sexual content, and Murder

Moderate: Abortion, Child death, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy

Minor: Suicide

rory_john14's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Abortion, Child death, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Grief

Moderate: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Car accident, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Kidnapping, Ableism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Confinement, and Forced institutionalization

kyraelisabeth's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Car accident, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Grief, Sexual violence, Self harm, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Ableism, Child death, Mental illness, and Murder

siennakt30's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Abandonment, Child death, Grief, Car accident, Death, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Ableism, Alcohol, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Cursing, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse

jellyhavana's review against another edition

challenging 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? Yes

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Sexual content, Child death, Abortion, Vomit, and Child abuse

Moderate: Grief, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Murder, Miscarriage, Infidelity, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Fatphobia, Death of parent, and Car accident

dev921's review against another edition

dark emotional 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: Abortion, Blood, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Vomit, Ableism, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Pregnancy

john_pascoe's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.0

 Honestly a bit creepy but Jeremy is such a romantic. I hate the last line so MUCH. This deviates so far from Colleen Hoover's usual writing style. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Suicide, Child death, Child abuse, Murder, Ableism, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Suicide attempt

mimmixoxo's review against another edition

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? Yes

0.5

This book made me legit angry in the worst way possible. I don’t know how it ended up with 4 stars on here. Such immature writing and a terrible thriller piece, if I didn’t know any better I would say it was written by a 16 year old on wattpad. To all the people who think this is genuinely good thriller please read an actual thriller like Rebecca or anything by Shirley Jackson or Riley Sager. Or anything would be better than this honestly. (Gave it a .5 bc I got at least one emotion from reading this) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Gore, Ableism, Misogyny, Infidelity, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Blood, Violence, and Sexual content

Minor: Car accident and Drug use