Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Verity, by Colleen Hoover

197 reviews

jeenieweenie27's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Grief, Infidelity, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Murder, and Physical abuse

kayleejanes's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Abortion, Death, Grief, Blood, Mental illness, Murder, and Pregnancy

hanwan17's review

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Murder

girl_in_the_books's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Abortion, Death of parent, Alcohol, Body horror, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Alcoholism, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Dysphoria, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Miscarriage

jfield351's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.75

Read in one sitting. Wow. That was intense.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Murder, Vomit, Blood, Sexual content, Chronic illness, and Child death

Moderate: Mental illness, Medical trauma, Injury/injury detail, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, Body horror, Blood, Abortion, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Vomit, Grief, Cursing, and Car accident

Minor: Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Cancer

caity_'s review

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

2.0

The neverending, unchanging sex scenes were unnecessary. The writing wasn't very creative and where I felt compelled to continue to read hoping for a gripping twist I was left disappointed as it never hit as much as it alluded it may. The continuous sex scenes eventually became so repetitive it got boring because the tension was eventually lost because it became expected of every chapter.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Child death, Grief, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Infidelity

Moderate: Violence, Abortion, and Murder

Minor: Suicide attempt

momofrank's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

2.5

cannot believe readers are giving this 5 stars. what is this book and writing style?! what kind of characters are these? feels like colleen wrote this book in hopes of it becoming a crappy lifetime movie. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Abortion, Death of parent, and Murder

kayleigh_bruno's review

challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

I have a difficult time when it comes to Colleen Hoover, very love-hate. 
I did enjoy this book though, far more then It Ends With Us, mostly cause I wasn’t blindsided this time by the dark themes in the book (which also do not seem to have any trigger warnings mentioned in the beginning- seems to be recurring problem with her books).
That being said, if you like dark, suspenseful reads with a bit of romance, this is a great book for you. One of the better books of hers that I’ve read for sure.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Sexual content, and Infidelity

Minor: Car accident, Fatphobia, Domestic abuse, Vomit, and Death of parent

varlot's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Sexual content, Violence, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Blood, and Cursing

chumpapagwa's review

dark sad 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

2.0

Dark in a shock value sort of way, not in a mysterious way. Started out with a really intriguing premise and quickly devolved into detailed descriptions of

Spoiler

graphic bad sex, child abuse, child murder

and a predictable and boring "twist" at the end that basically felt like the author assumed the reader was a complete idiot and needed everything explained in mundane detail. You know what they say about jokes? Same goes for suspenseful plot twists. If you have to explain it, it's probably not very good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Child death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Car accident, Chronic illness, Death, and Gaslighting