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Verity by Colleen Hoover

658 reviews

gmbooks11_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Abortion, Medical trauma, Medical content, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Death, Murder, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, Self harm, Body horror, Blood, Car accident, Abandonment, Body shaming, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, and Violence

esme_sims1's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

void_uwulucinda's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Violence

blue_mercury's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

HOLY CRAP!!! Be prepared when reading this book to never know what direction the book is going in, especially when you think you know what’s going to happen next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Minor: Vomit

hasinashah's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Alcohol, Abortion, Child death, Murder, Child abuse, Medical content, and Violence

lizf's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

This book intrigued me from the start and I wanted to keep reading to find out more about the mind of verity. I feel like the spicy parts could have either been omitted or written better. Now as for the last pages of the book I’m not impressed. The ending! Ugh. Awful. I felt like it was rushed and did not follow the same intensity of the book. I have so many questions. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Child death

Kinda spicy. Spoilers

mauradv's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Murder, Abortion, Death, and Violence

planetshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Colleen Hoover used trigger warnings as a checklist and over-explained things too much to maintain the ‘suspense’ aspect of this suspense novel, but I found myself enjoying it and looking forward to reading further.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Violence, Vomit, Death, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Child death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Abortion, Cursing, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death of parent, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Fatphobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, and Body shaming

Minor: Rape, Alcohol, and Drug use

geneav21's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Mind blowing ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Blood, Fatphobia, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, and Vomit

ommageden's review against another edition

mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.0

Overall the book was ok. To be fair I just saw it was popular so I figured I'd try it out. The story was ok, somewhat creepy at times, but it kind of fizzled to nothing. 

Spoiler

the twist at the end was rather predictable , and really didn't have a very strong punch in my opinion. And for the majority of the book it just feels like your reading about Verity sucking dick

Overall it wasn't bad, it was a good, simple short read that I'm sure nearly anyone can pickup and enjoy, I just felt it could have done more with what it had.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Vomit