A review by lvriot13
Verity by Colleen Hoover

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

0.5

Where to even start. This book is a tire fire. Colleen Hoover INSISTS on over-explaining every detail of this story again and again to an insulting degree. It makes reading it beyond frustrating. Colleen desperately needs someone, ANYONE, to tell her to show and not tell. She could also stand to trust her audience literally even a little tiny bit. 

To be perfectly honest, this book is offensive and grotesque. It’s WILDLY ableist. There’s a bunch of bizarre fatphobia and graphic depictions of
child abuse
that simply don’t need to be there. It wallows in its own shock value while providing no depth. 

I’m a connoisseur of fucked up books. Dark, disturbing, freaky, etc. I don’t dislike this book because it’s fucked up. I dislike this book because it’s poorly written. I finished this book and could not help but wonder what the fucking point was. 

And the final twist? Is the most half-baked bullshit I’ve ever read. It makes so little sense. It didn’t do a thing for me or the book for that matter. 

Go Colleen! Give us nothing, girl! 

Literally go read any book by Gillian Flynn instead of this one. 
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