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3.6 AVERAGE
3.6 AVERAGE
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book made me fall back in love with reading for myself again. Not kids books, not textbooks. Just enjoying a book for myself. I wanted to read this book as my first feel of CH’s books instead of reading her more popular pieces. Which, I felt that was a good thing. Not many people liked this book, but I feel that comes from a deep misunderstanding of mental illness and being a people pleaser at the same time. Merit is incredibly misunderstood by readers. I felt a connection to her as a character. I also felt that the combination of mental health issues, family issues, and love with additional drama absolutely 100% makes sense. It feels more real than what people are asking for.
wrote this review as i was reading the book but i kept some of the assumptions i was making throughout the book yk keeping it authentic. this was a three day experience i regret. still cant believe hoover is still trying to frame merit as "the nice one" after calling moby an almost bastard to his face. there are age-appropriate ways to teach 4 yr olds things without making them cry.
almost 100 pages in and the only useful thing ive learned about merit is that shes soooo not like the other girls. yeah you hate angela for allowing "the attention from guys to value her worth" when 9/10 thoughts in ur head have been about luck or sagan like girl look inward. exactly 67% of my issue with this book is merit. wow this girl annoying. the other 33% is the writing. ya allah. ya rabi. i know this is part of the fanfic-to-bestelling novel pipeline but i swear on my life i have read better bakugou fanfic than this.
when reading i always take note of what the author does w my personal writing strength (dialogue) and personal writing weakness (sentence variation). hoover is bad at both those things and i can say this because 1. i have eyes and am literate and 2. i took one creative writing class with the whitest woman on planet earth. the dialogue is so stiff!!! book dialogue doesnt have to be 100% accurate to reality but there should be some level of truth to it. it's straightforward to the point and so boring. banter is in places where banter shouldnt be and it breaks the flow of the prose and it angers me to no end. there is little to no sentence variation and instead of prose that flows well it FEELS like BULLET POINTS of FACTS the WHOLE book.
ON A SIMILAR VEIN. LETS TALK ABOUT MERITS INTERNAL MONOLOGUE. its such mcu ass information. "did that SERIOUSLY just happen?" girl please have complex thoughts. i am aware this is a usual point of contention among modern-setting novels about teenagers but i hate colleen hoover so much that this is one extra negative point towards her: the texts are also so annoying like girl that is not how teenagers talk. literally look thru a teenagers messages. its very simple for one we do not use proper punctuation.
honor feels like a copy-and-pasted character from a john green novel. sagan is so off putting i greatly dislike this man. lucky pisses me off he feels like a faerie and i know how i feel about those after acotar. merit feels like alina shadow and bone AND YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT ALINA SHADOW AND BONE. utah sucks. dad sucks. both victorias suck. moby doesnt suck because he's four. the "twist" with utah and luck.......genuinely we are better than this, colleen.
merit's thoughts in general and merit's rant both feel like a tumblr "ive had ENOUGH" rant. its so bad
almost 100 pages in and the only useful thing ive learned about merit is that shes soooo not like the other girls. yeah you hate angela for allowing "the attention from guys to value her worth" when 9/10 thoughts in ur head have been about luck or sagan like girl look inward. exactly 67% of my issue with this book is merit. wow this girl annoying. the other 33% is the writing. ya allah. ya rabi. i know this is part of the fanfic-to-bestelling novel pipeline but i swear on my life i have read better bakugou fanfic than this.
when reading i always take note of what the author does w my personal writing strength (dialogue) and personal writing weakness (sentence variation). hoover is bad at both those things and i can say this because 1. i have eyes and am literate and 2. i took one creative writing class with the whitest woman on planet earth. the dialogue is so stiff!!! book dialogue doesnt have to be 100% accurate to reality but there should be some level of truth to it. it's straightforward to the point and so boring. banter is in places where banter shouldnt be and it breaks the flow of the prose and it angers me to no end. there is little to no sentence variation and instead of prose that flows well it FEELS like BULLET POINTS of FACTS the WHOLE book.
ON A SIMILAR VEIN. LETS TALK ABOUT MERITS INTERNAL MONOLOGUE. its such mcu ass information. "did that SERIOUSLY just happen?" girl please have complex thoughts. i am aware this is a usual point of contention among modern-setting novels about teenagers but i hate colleen hoover so much that this is one extra negative point towards her: the texts are also so annoying like girl that is not how teenagers talk. literally look thru a teenagers messages. its very simple for one we do not use proper punctuation.
honor feels like a copy-and-pasted character from a john green novel. sagan is so off putting i greatly dislike this man. lucky pisses me off he feels like a faerie and i know how i feel about those after acotar. merit feels like alina shadow and bone AND YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT ALINA SHADOW AND BONE. utah sucks. dad sucks. both victorias suck. moby doesnt suck because he's four. the "twist" with utah and luck.......genuinely we are better than this, colleen.
merit's thoughts in general and merit's rant both feel like a tumblr "ive had ENOUGH" rant. its so bad
So I am jumping into another Colleen books, I was super excited like I always am with her books! They get me all the time, she has this type of writing that just sucks me in and I cant stop!
I didn't know what Without Merit was going to be about, I tried to not read all the talk about it. I wanted to go in with a fresh mind. Well i sure went in blind, I felt the start was a little slow and I just didn't get where it was going why I was not connecting with the book. Well that all changed when I go a little more into the book and started to figure out the message behind it. And when I was all done and closed the book I have to say IT'S a MUST read!!!!!! To watch ( that's what I do when I read lol ) this story of a young girl struggle through some real life issues was sad, it was real and something I think a lot of us have or are dealing with.
Merit sure has a crazy family, like most people but her's was a little extra. This young seventeen year old girl has a lot to deal with or a lot of secrets she and everyone in her family seem to be hiding. She is looking for some acceptance someone to pay attention to her because she doesn't think anyone is. Or are they, do they have their own things going on and maybe her family just needs to come together to get to know each other again to be there for each other to just love one another. She struggles through many things through out the book and in the will she figure out what is going on with her self and why she feel so alone and lost?
Merit was my favorite one in the book but I did love that Voss family, each one has something you just have to love. Sagan, he sure fits right in to this not normal family! But he will play a very vital role and that is all you are getting from me but rocks so read !! HEHE
In the end all I could think of was REAL LIFE and how the struggle of dealing with family, yourself, growing up and just trying to fit in can be crazy and consume you. But I love the end and I love the support Merit got. If you need something to make you FEEL and want a book to just sink into then read it, I promise you will love it!
I didn't know what Without Merit was going to be about, I tried to not read all the talk about it. I wanted to go in with a fresh mind. Well i sure went in blind, I felt the start was a little slow and I just didn't get where it was going why I was not connecting with the book. Well that all changed when I go a little more into the book and started to figure out the message behind it. And when I was all done and closed the book I have to say IT'S a MUST read!!!!!! To watch ( that's what I do when I read lol ) this story of a young girl struggle through some real life issues was sad, it was real and something I think a lot of us have or are dealing with.
Merit sure has a crazy family, like most people but her's was a little extra. This young seventeen year old girl has a lot to deal with or a lot of secrets she and everyone in her family seem to be hiding. She is looking for some acceptance someone to pay attention to her because she doesn't think anyone is. Or are they, do they have their own things going on and maybe her family just needs to come together to get to know each other again to be there for each other to just love one another. She struggles through many things through out the book and in the will she figure out what is going on with her self and why she feel so alone and lost?
Merit was my favorite one in the book but I did love that Voss family, each one has something you just have to love. Sagan, he sure fits right in to this not normal family! But he will play a very vital role and that is all you are getting from me but rocks so read !! HEHE
In the end all I could think of was REAL LIFE and how the struggle of dealing with family, yourself, growing up and just trying to fit in can be crazy and consume you. But I love the end and I love the support Merit got. If you need something to make you FEEL and want a book to just sink into then read it, I promise you will love it!
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Sale un nuevo libro de la reina Colleen y naturalmente lo tengo que leer enseguida porque no me aguanto la intriga. Es bueno, es divertido y triste y emocionante, pero… no es mi favorito. Colleen avisó luego de su último libro que este iba a ser mas “liviano”, al menos comparado con It Ends With Us, pero esto a mi no me afectaba realmente porque no tengo una preferencia específica por los libros que tienen mucho drama, me gustan de las dos maneras. De cualquier manera no es la razón por la que Without Merit no terminó de convencerme, eso se debe a que sentí que, si bien había mucho desarrollo de personajes, sobre todo del principal, no paso nada más fuera de ello. Y ya se, pueden decirme que esa era la idea del libro, pero me quedé con esa sensación de que faltó algo al terminar.
“Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness.” ― Colleen Hoover
De todas maneras, es Colleen Hoover, su estilo de escritura es maravilloso, su uso de todos los recursos literarios a su alcance es fuera de este mundo y dejar de leer uno de sus libros o aburrirse con ellos es imposible. Si bien tengo que decir que no fue mi favorito, igual fue una amena lectura que me hizo sentir todos los sentimientos posibles. Si, en un momento lloré, y mucho.
Más en:
https://librosyte.wordpress.com/2017/10/09/resena-without-merit-%e2%80%a2-colleen-hoover/
“Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness.” ― Colleen Hoover
De todas maneras, es Colleen Hoover, su estilo de escritura es maravilloso, su uso de todos los recursos literarios a su alcance es fuera de este mundo y dejar de leer uno de sus libros o aburrirse con ellos es imposible. Si bien tengo que decir que no fue mi favorito, igual fue una amena lectura que me hizo sentir todos los sentimientos posibles. Si, en un momento lloré, y mucho.
Más en:
https://librosyte.wordpress.com/2017/10/09/resena-without-merit-%e2%80%a2-colleen-hoover/
It just really hit home for me. I felt the depth of the characters, the emotions, and just seeing everything through Merit’s perspective and how she viewed her life was enlightening in itself because Hoover shows you how one sided everything can be when you try to keep/understand everything by yourself.
By far my favorite novel of Colleen Hoover’s.
By far my favorite novel of Colleen Hoover’s.
challenging
dark
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I adore Colleen Hoovers books. I haven't read one I didn't like. I instantly loved this one as soon as I read the first chapter and couldn't put it down. It was funny, it was sad, it was serious. Loved!
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
I listened to a YouTuber read and review this book, @Alizee. Alizee was the only reason this book was remotely entertaining.