Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

De waarheid by Colleen Hoover

243 reviews

daytonhaugen's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

5.0

✨ BOOK REVIEW ✨

Verity- @colleenhoover 
Thriller
314 Pages

My fav line in book •

“But there is no light where we’re going. This is your final warning. 
  Darkness ahead.”

Or

“I can’t have him in real life, but I can learn what he’s like in bed to aid in all my fantasies I’m probably going to have about him.”

My Review •

Slow burn…but in a thriller. Like this was intense, and gave the feeling of someone watching you behind your shoulder. Just a general uncomfortably reading the book the entire time. Something was just off, or wrong, and I fucking LOVED it. 

CHAPTER 5 OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY MADE ME SKIN CRAWL. Being a parent I could not imagine being in that sort of headspace and being able to do that. What an upsetting chapter to read wow. 

Page 268. Wow. First time in the book I genuinely had to pick my jaw up as I was reading with my mouth open completely shocked. The rest of the book has been devastating, eerie, haunting, and horribly sad…but this was evil. 

Page 292. the absolute GASP that left my mouth. This book is only becoming more and more unhinged. I mean 291 was unhinged…but a single sentence on page 292 had me SHOOK. 

Hahahaha what…I’m sorry WHAT? So I finished the book. And I am absolutely and utterly confused ( in the best way ) I really thought I knew how this was going to end. It felt like the entire book was pointing towards one ending. I got half of it right…but that’s the obvious part of the ending. The other half was beyond unpredictable and let me tell you…this is an exhilarating thriller. This is my first Colleen Hoover book..and will not be my last. I am easily rating this 5/5⭐️ this was a clusterfuck of “what’s real”. I also read this while working an overnight shift…so overnight loopy brain + a book where it’s hard to tell what reality = AMAZING thriller. 

My Rating •
5/5⭐️
2/5🌶️
3/5🩸 ( some big triggers so check TW’s, but no gore )

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Miscarriage, Child abuse, and Chronic illness

ksilvio's review against another edition

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

aimeefranks's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Death, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Child death, Death of parent, Medical content, Violence, Dementia, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Confinement, Murder, Abortion, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Pregnancy

selfbetty's review against another edition

I could not take the scenes about the abuse of the children. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Abortion, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent

hyperbunny's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Good read, very quick.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Abortion, Car accident, Child death, Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Sexual content

el_wheel's review against another edition

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

Moderate: Ableism, Abortion, and Death of parent

lexibug's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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

4.0

This was a solid 3.5 star read until the ending. I love the ending a lot. It's one thing to have a plot twist, but this is of a whole other world. I am speechless; highly recommend this one!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Abortion, Murder, and Sexual content

Moderate: Grief, Terminal illness, Gaslighting, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Chronic illness, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Abandonment, Miscarriage, Blood, Pregnancy, and Infidelity

disguisedposer's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Child abuse, Child death, Toxic relationship, Death, Sexual content, Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Mental illness, Murder, and Pregnancy

forgedopulence's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

2.0

Every single character in this was a villain. I'm giving it 2 stars because I genuinely enjoyed the suspense, but if I believed in book burning, this would be one of the first victims. 

Verity makes me feel physically ill. Team manuscript. 
Lowen is spineless, invasive, clingy, and a homewrecker. 
Jeremy is also spineless, also a homewrecker, and somehow blinded to psychopathy with abundant fellatio. 

Something about the way this was written, just thinking about one mother writing another mother's perspective in this way, that makes my skin crawl.
Verity solidifies for me that I find nothing redeemable or admirable about CoHo's writing. This was my last attempt. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Infidelity, Abortion, Child death, Pregnancy, Self harm, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Grief, Blood, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Medical content, Excrement, and Violence

a_l's review against another edition

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? No

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, and Murder