Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Verity by Colleen Hoover

136 reviews

sam_rm94's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Fatphobia, Sexual content, and Body shaming

aratwood's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Wow wow wow. So different from her other books but so so good

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Pregnancy, Death, Murder, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Child death, Grief, Violence, Sexual content, Abortion, and Child abuse

Minor: Blood

lvriot13's review against another edition

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? Yes

0.5

Where to even start. This book is a tire fire. Colleen Hoover INSISTS on over-explaining every detail of this story again and again to an insulting degree. It makes reading it beyond frustrating. Colleen desperately needs someone, ANYONE, to tell her to show and not tell. She could also stand to trust her audience literally even a little tiny bit. 

To be perfectly honest, this book is offensive and grotesque. It’s WILDLY ableist. There’s a bunch of bizarre fatphobia and graphic depictions of

child abuse

that simply don’t need to be there. It wallows in its own shock value while providing no depth. 

I’m a connoisseur of fucked up books. Dark, disturbing, freaky, etc. I don’t dislike this book because it’s fucked up. I dislike this book because it’s poorly written. I finished this book and could not help but wonder what the fucking point was. 

And the final twist? Is the most half-baked bullshit I’ve ever read. It makes so little sense. It didn’t do a thing for me or the book for that matter. 

Go Colleen! Give us nothing, girl! 

Literally go read any book by Gillian Flynn instead of this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Sexual content, Child abuse, Child death, Fatphobia, and Abortion

chandlerwood's review against another edition

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? Yes

1.25

Compulsively readable but one of the worst mystery reveals I’ve ever read in my entire life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Ableism, Abortion, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Vomit

Moderate: Cancer, Car accident, and Cursing

selmbry's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Grief, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Abortion, and Gaslighting

Minor: Fatphobia, Ableism, Body shaming, and Car accident

alliebee333's review against another edition

This book was just worst. Characters were unredeemable. The author attempts to make the reader believe something that is then heavily suggested to be a lie on several occasions. Lying to your readers isn’t a plot device or tool; it’s just lying. Totally illogical, but also incredibly predictable. 

There’s a whole page dedicated to a description of Verity’s mother and her “expanding waist line“ and a description of disordered eating/workout behaviors to avoid Verity experiencing the same fate, so reader beware. These are terrible characters, all written terribly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Blood, Car accident, Confinement, Eating disorder, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Child death, Grief, Infidelity, Murder, and Physical abuse

oliviahamilton's review against another edition

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

2.0

I had a good time reading this book --- I like having a book that I can fly through every once in a while. So horny, my god. I found several typos and found the plot overall unsatisfying and underbaked, but I respect Hoover for her ability to write a book that brings non-readers back to books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Violence

Moderate: Fatphobia

gemin1reader's review against another edition

dark

2.0

I know Colleen Hoover isn’t really for me but I had to read this for book club. I straight up hated it. It was dark and depressing and uncomfortably tense to read (and I like thrillers). It built to this incredible climax and then the final ‘twist’ kind of ruined it for me. 

Lower was an incredibly flat, not-like-other-girls heroine and even though she had an interesting backstory it barely seemed to count for anything plot wise? 

And god knows why everyone was falling over themselves for Jeremy (which, no offence, is an incredibly unsexy name). 

Do yourself a favour and check trigger warnings before if you’re sensitive about anything because there is a lot of miserable content here! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abortion, Vomit, Child death, Grief, Mental illness, Confinement, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Blood

nahae's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

Worth the quick read. Disturbing af. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Child death, Miscarriage, Murder, and Sexual content

sophiahumber's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Child death

Moderate: Terminal illness, Fatphobia, Vomit, and Ableism