Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Without Merit by Colleen Hoover

58 reviews

m_clarke's review against another edition

sad slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, and Incest

ellabella2's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.25

it’s different from colleen’s book in that it focuses more on conflict within a family rather than a relationship between just two people. there is only one sex scene but it doesn’t actually happen it the characters end it making it so the book rarely has any physical forms of kissing in it. the love between the merit and sagan slowly form throughout the book but very slowly that it’s literally painful and in the end their connection/love isn’t how I expected her to write her books. no sex scenes just pure and innocent love

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Homophobia

daydaybookbay's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

I had a tough time relating to Merit since I was on the outside looking in. This wasn't a twisty book, but when all the secrets were revealed, I had to finish reading. I would be interested in more YA novels by CoHo.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Vomit, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Drug use, Incest, Car accident, and Outing

Minor: Child death and Death

sueee573's review against another edition

sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

denijaaa_s's review against another edition

funny fast-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? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest

Moderate: Animal death, Homophobia, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Mental illness

thor's review against another edition

1.0

i cannot provide a short and sweet summary of how much was wrong with this book. a deeply patronising surface level look at depression but everything is tied up with an incredibly neat bow at the end. the narrator is deeply misogynistic, homophobic, biphobic, and ableist, and she does not apologise or realise the error of her ways for all of these things. she is deeply, deeply horrible to everybody else in her family and life and blames THEM for her being so horrible to them. also there is a truly alarming amount of incest in this book, including one of the final couples being incestuous (well, step-incest). 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Biphobia, Homophobia, Incest, and Misogyny

issybartlett_'s review against another edition

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? Yes

2.0

okay the only reason it got two stars is because this book was so INSANE. i truly did not know where it would go (and not in the good way) I keep trying to give CoHo a chance, but she keeps letting me down with her lazy writing and boring characters, but it is at least an entertaining and easy read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Cancer, Incest, and Vomit

cwatson1234's review against another edition

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Mental illness

kat_rowlen's review against another edition

challenging emotional lighthearted sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Would make for a good beach read! Will this book win any literary awards? Probably not. Will it keep you entertained? Definitely! The chapters were too long, but I didn’t mind it as much as I normally would because I’d get so lost in the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Incest, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

kamrynkoble's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

This one was definitely on the YA end of the CoHo spectrum. I think I would’ve liked it more as a teenager myself. 

I struggled between being annoyed with the main character and wanting to give her a hug. A lot of the commentary in this one is too heavy handed, which is often one of my complaints with CoHo books. Maybe teenagers need it. 

It’s somehow both extremely quirky and truly sad. I don’t really feel affection toward any of the characters, and the entire plot was them working through their own issues. But it was interesting at the end of the day. Hard to describe how I feel about this one.

If you’re thinking about reading, look up the content warning list. The “steamy” scenes were extremely mild but there’s quite a bit about suicide and depression, amongst other things.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Animal death