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Verity by Colleen Hoover

138 reviews

bethy_joy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, and Cultural appropriation

mamawantsbooks'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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Minor: Animal death

ennui_09's review against another edition

mysterious medium-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Car accident, and Abortion

Minor: Body shaming and Fatphobia

johannslauren15's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.75

This book is..... Uhhhh something.....
I guess if you want to question everything you known about life is a lie! If you want to be traumatized, than highly recommend to read.
The only reason this isn't a 5, just because I literally don't know what I just read!

I honestly didn't even care about the romance in the book but Jeremy just deserved better! I also I guess I'm team Manuscript but I'm literally more team both like I feel both were flawed and both had half-truths. But just in general we cannot trust Verity! So inconsistent!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Vomit, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Body horror, Fatphobia, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Grief

grace_lynn08's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

lilithreads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Abortion, and Murder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cursing, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Excrement, Medical content, Car accident, and Alcohol

vaguely_pink's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• 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

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Grief, Abortion, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Cancer, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Medical content, Death of parent, and Alcohol

loanedliterature's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gore, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

sweettartdemon's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

1.0

Spoilers ahead: I didn’t like this book. I didn’t like any of the characters and listen, I love deeply flawed and selfish characters but the characters here were not it. They’re all assholes with no redeeming qualities. I can’t stop thinking about the scene where the mc (who is in her mid 30’s!) calls a 4-year old an asshole because he didn’t let her, a stranger who he’d never met before, into his house. The smut was… definitely something (derogatory). Honestly if you’re reading it for the smut I promise you, you’ll find better if you log onto ao3 so save yourself. 

The suspense didn’t feel genuine and just felt like a result from the “guilt” she felt for wanting to fuck verity’s husband while the man was married w a disabled wife. Every detail and description that we are supposed to be given to feel the suspense was just the main character telling us how to feel or what to think which is just terrible writing. Colleen Hoover’s internalized misogyny, pro-life opinions, and how the only valid way to have sex is through “vanilla sex” otherwise you are a slut permeates the book and its really infuriating to read. Especially considering how popular she is among teenagers because they are really just romanticizing abusive relationships. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Infidelity, Blood, Medical content, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

monsieur_tunin's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent