A review by sweettartdemon
Verity by Colleen Hoover

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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