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A review by emmashemko
Verity by Colleen Hoover
1.0
I’m so angry and disgusted with Colleen Hoover right now. I can say with confidence right now that I’ll never be reading one of her books ever again.
TW: sexual assault
I don’t understand how authors can get away with using r/sa as a plot device without consequence. Especially Colleen Hoover who not only used it to advance her plot but consistently glorified and romanticized r/sa in this book. JAIL.
Verity r/sa Jeremy twice by waking him up with sex. Never in the book does Jeremy consent to this happening to him. When Lowen reads about this happening to Jeremy instead of acknowledging the situation as r/sa she gets jealous of his sex life. r/sa is NOT sexy or romantic. It’s disgusting.
Then later in the book Jeremy and Lowen have unprotected sex and Jeremy NEVER asks for consent to c*m inside Lowen he just goes ahead and does it. That’s straight up r*pe.
And on top of all this Colleen Hoover promotes unsafe sex. The first time Lowen and Jeremy have sex he doesn’t have a condom and she isn’t on birth control and they agree the best course of action is to pull out. I’m sorry but there are SO many young people reading Colleen Hoover’s books and I’m disgusted that she’s promoting this to her readers. Especially considering that abortions are not legal everywhere. FU Hoover.
If you’re going to romanticize r/sa the least you could have done is provide trigger warnings in one of the first pages of this book. Do better Colleen Hoover.
TW: sexual assault
I don’t understand how authors can get away with using r/sa as a plot device without consequence. Especially Colleen Hoover who not only used it to advance her plot but consistently glorified and romanticized r/sa in this book. JAIL.
Verity r/sa Jeremy twice by waking him up with sex. Never in the book does Jeremy consent to this happening to him. When Lowen reads about this happening to Jeremy instead of acknowledging the situation as r/sa she gets jealous of his sex life. r/sa is NOT sexy or romantic. It’s disgusting.
Then later in the book Jeremy and Lowen have unprotected sex and Jeremy NEVER asks for consent to c*m inside Lowen he just goes ahead and does it. That’s straight up r*pe.
And on top of all this Colleen Hoover promotes unsafe sex. The first time Lowen and Jeremy have sex he doesn’t have a condom and she isn’t on birth control and they agree the best course of action is to pull out. I’m sorry but there are SO many young people reading Colleen Hoover’s books and I’m disgusted that she’s promoting this to her readers. Especially considering that abortions are not legal everywhere. FU Hoover.
If you’re going to romanticize r/sa the least you could have done is provide trigger warnings in one of the first pages of this book. Do better Colleen Hoover.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Murder, Sexual content, Rape, Child abuse, Child death, Abortion, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, and Blood