Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

Verity, by Colleen Hoover

100 reviews

polyglotperla's review

dark fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Ableism, Child abuse, and Vomit

Moderate: Vomit, Sexual assault, and Murder

gothmiku's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Grief, Car accident, Miscarriage, Abortion, Child abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Blood, Suicide attempt, Ableism, Gaslighting, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Body horror, Fatphobia, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal cruelty, Kidnapping, Chronic illness, Animal death, and Cancer

nancydrew's review

dark tense slow-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

0.5

Spoiler alert for plot spoilers and also for spoiling reputation of this book: What an absolute piece of crap.  Setting aside the now overused misleading diary, which is telegraphed  early, this is repetitive lengthy poorly written drivel.  The novel’s start, where the protagonist witnesses a pedestrian getting his skull smashed by a car and the hardened New Yorkers just pass by is absurd. Has this Texan idiot ever been to New York City? Even in the big apple, people stop for tragedy.  The author then goes to Southport, NC to a house on the beach. Again, has she been there? The is no beach — the ocean front houses are across the street from the beach! You have to go to Oak Island for the beach! Also , the protagonist at one point says she’s going to stop reading the diary because it’s filled with too many repetitive explicit sex scenes….um this has to be intended as irony because this novel is replete with poorly written sex scenes where not one but two woman are so delighted my their partner that they can’t help but bite the top of the headboard during orgasm….the second woman even endeavors to put her bite mark in the same place as the prior biters?  Finally, the idiotic mystery twist is so inplausible!!! The reason for the diary is absurd! Really the high ratings on this book cause me to question our collective ethos.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

chaotically_katie's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

Pretty decent book, liked the plot twist towards the end, but the writing is somehow both convoluted and simplistic. 

One of the best pieces of writing advice is to trust your audience. And while I appreciate the spoon-feeding to a certain extent, there comes a point where it’s a bit excessive.

Overall, I recommend reading it. Just not at the top of your reading list.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Infidelity, Injury/injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Alcohol, Blood, Child death, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Body shaming, Car accident, Violence, and Vomit

sophiaxsingh's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Ableism

ravenclaw_percabeth's review

dark mysterious tense 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? Yes

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Murder, Sexual content, Vomit, Misogyny, Ableism, and Car accident

Moderate: Abortion, Cancer, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Blood, and Domestic abuse

bears_book_cave's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh
I have so many thoughts that I can’t even fathom. My brain was trying to figure it out the whole time, which kept me hooked and I typically don’t like Colleen Hoover’s writing style. 
I didn’t care for a lot of the spice in the middle of the book because it just wasn’t written well, but overall loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Pregnancy, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Infidelity, and Fatphobia

mac96's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

I did not like this book at all. I didn’t care about it, it wasn’t interesting, it was poorly written, and it was gross for shock value.  The only reason I did not DNF it immediately was that I read it for a book club that my MIL is part of and for her I will do anything 🫡 even push through the worst book I have ever read. 

Spoiler

The end twist was like an after-thought that didn’t make sense. I don’t even care if the letter was real or fake, the book was just bad and that little bit of mystery was not going to save it. All of the characters sucked and their motivations always fell flat. Also the names were stupid.

All in all it was a waste of time and there are a million better thrillers to spend money on. If you absolutely must read this book to see what the hype is about, get it from your library or other ways that don’t give this author any more money. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Child abuse, Sexual content, Child death, and Gore

Minor: Ableism

dashleyp's review

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

1.0

It's a no on CoHo for me. Maybe I'm just not a fan of erotic play-by-plays in like, every chapter. Maybe I just don't like chaotic storylines. 

I'm giving this a one because it had a beginning, middle, and end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Ableism, and Child abuse

chandlerwood's review against another edition

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

1.25

Compulsively readable but one of the worst mystery reveals I’ve ever read in my entire life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Ableism, Abortion, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Vomit

Moderate: Cancer, Car accident, and Cursing