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Verity by Colleen Hoover

118 reviews

boatjo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Grief, Body shaming, and Abortion

Moderate: Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Car accident, and Medical trauma

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

Minor: Animal death

saeruh's review against another edition

dark mysterious

3.5

   It was so interesting to see through the eyes of such unlikable characters. Lowen mostly because she’s so bland and doesn’t have much going for her character at all except for how much she DESPERATELY wants to live in the life of the woman she’s writing for, to the point where she’s willing to do immoral things to get there. Verity (through the autobiography) as a such a cold person who is only obsessed with sex rather than emotional part of a relationship and who

is willing to kill/attempt to kill her kid to get more attention from her husband

. There was just a bit too many plots holes for me

like if Jeremy was also in the car crash with Verity, why didn’t he have any injuries bc even if he did have a seat belt, you’re still gonna be dealing with broken ribs, bruises, etc. Also why did he suddenly decide he needed to kill Verity when Lowen showed him the manuscript even though he had already seen it?? Also so fucked up how Lowen made sure she got pregnant so she could be the perfect wife/mother that Jeremy never got to experience. Lowen couldn’t even look after Crew (ex. the time she let him play with knife until he bit it and needed stitches)

. I don’t think the kid needed to be attempted to made seen ‘evil’ like he was just a little kid who had gone through trauma. I don’t think Jeremy is the perfect man everyone made him out to be, there’s something fucked up there that everyone is missing. Why didn’t the nurse taking care of Verity suspect that she was faking it?

What the hell type of writing process is where you have to write the opposite of what you want to???

Also there was way too much sex for what there needed to be but I get Hoover was trying to show how obsessed Verity was with Jeremy.
     Overall, the book kept me well entertained during a slow work day. Not very creepy or jumpscary to me but could be to some. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Vomit, Abortion, Blood, Child death, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Grief, Murder, and Sexual content

Minor: Body shaming and Car accident

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, Abortion, and Car accident

Minor: Body shaming and Fatphobia

psyched_np's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Death, Medical content, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Car accident, Abortion, Body horror, and Body shaming

lexslillibrary's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

I quite literally read this book in 3 hours. I think this thriller/suspense with a sprinkling of romance might be where Hoover thrives. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, and Abortion

Moderate: Medical content, Gore, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Minor: Body shaming, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, and Drug use

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

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

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

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

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

liviamello's review against another edition

dark 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Child death, Death, Ableism, Child abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Moderate: Body shaming, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer