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Verity by Colleen Hoover

1109 reviews

lulubellabooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

5.0

Oh my god

First of all, this book NEEDS to have trigger warnings, for example, murder, child endangerment, graphic violence, Sexual Content, psychological and emotional distress - like at a minimum im sure there could be more.

Ignoring this, though, I couldn't put this book down. I feel like people either love or hate Colleen hoover books, and I really get along well with the writing style. The content can sometimes be questionable, but it makes for interesting annotations!

The ending of the book fully had me questioning everything. I just had to sit there, and I stared into space for a few minutes to try and process everything.

I loved it. I really, truly enjoyed this book, even if it was a little disturbing.

Just please look up the trigger warnings on Google. People have posted some on reddit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

laura__maclean's review against another edition

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

mchristie's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Murder, and Pregnancy

marmander's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I couldn’t put it down, but this book is an insane wild ride. It’s not the best written book to be honest? But there’s lots of twists and turns that make you want to finish it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Self harm, Violence, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

bella613's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

4.0

This was... definitely something. 

I liked it until chapter 23. The last few chapters felt boring, rushed, and lazy after all the build up. 
But actually I don't know if "I liked it" is quite the right way to put it. Reading this book gave me the same feeling as when you overhear a juicy piece of gossip about something horrible. It makes you dislike the person who did the thing, the people who are gossiping about it, and kinda also yourself for listening in. Every character in this book is so incredibly terrible (except maybe the children but they weren't well developed) and it felt more like I had to read it than wanted to. 
The writing isn't great but Hoover definitely does a great job at making you love to hate her characters. Maybe the hype around her is hate-bonding, like when students group together in class because you hate the professor and the material and then after you leave and look back, it looks like a positive experience because of the community made within the hate. 
Anyway, this was difficult to rate and I might change it later once I've had time to think about it. It's better than what I expected because I heard a lot of fuss over the author and wasn't interested because of that. A colleague suggested this book to me and I took a long time to actually pick it up. I don't think I'd necessarily recommend it but I am going to read more by the author (mostly because of the movie coming out lol) 
Also can I just say: Colleen Hoover was marketed to me as a romance author. Unless the other books she writes are drastically different than this, she definitely is quite the opposite of a romance style writer...?? This is not romance (although not decisively thriller, either?) I would probably call it horror but tbh it doesn't fit great there either. Idk what to call it but there is zero romance whatsoever. Sex scenes, yes, and some weirdly obsessive lust from all the characters but not romance. Maybe the people hating on her and judging the authors morals based on her fiction books are just classifying this incorrectly 😂

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

klabardee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Sexual content, Grief, Abortion, Murder, and Pregnancy

claudia_moreira's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, and Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Vomit, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

sarahmmichael's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Abortion, and Murder

Minor: Cancer, Miscarriage, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

amris's review against another edition

mysterious tense

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Murder, and Pregnancy

ravenousrose's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? No

3.0

I will say I blew through the 2nd quarter of the book. It definitely had me hooked plot-wise. Even despite the “legendary author hires a budding author and then

reveals a dark secret

trope.

Unfortunately, I do better with books where I can attach to at least one character and I couldn’t do that with anyone.

This was a double-twist type story. Loved the first twist. The second one irritated me.

Mainly because I hate it when twists render the entire plot essentially worthless

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Definitely liked this one better than “It Ends With Us” but I’m thinking this author is just not my style. I’m glad so many people enjoy her. I guess I’m just not one of them, unfortunately.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Abortion, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Car accident