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Verity, by Colleen Hoover

29 reviews

scxrlett_mxguire's review

dark mysterious medium-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: Child death, Car accident, Murder, Abortion, and Child abuse

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, and Blood

Minor: Gaslighting, Pregnancy, and Domestic abuse

emilybelger's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness, Addiction, Murder, Alcohol, Car accident, Child death, Death, Grief, Pregnancy, and Drug use

jaimet's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Sexual content, Car accident, Addiction, Abortion, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Murder, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Death of parent, Child death, and Child abuse

serenemoonn's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Vomit and Chronic illness

Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Miscarriage, and Self harm

marlihe's review

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.0

A fun book, spooky, thrilling and mysterious. I enjoyed the twist at the end

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Child death, Car accident, and Death

Moderate: Addiction, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, Grief, and Violence

Minor: Vomit

txmelessreads's review

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

 I don’t understand the hype.. don’t get me wrong, I still enjoyed reading it as I finished it in 3.5 days when it usually takes me 2 weeks to finish a book. I heard that the twists in the book are so unexpected, and I was anticipating them, but I figured them out after 100 pages into the story. I was expecting the ending to be more impactful, it felt rather abrupt and unmemorable.

*my idea of a better ending is below. please do not read it if you haven't finished the book*
 

Spoiler

I feel the ending would have been better if the author continued emphasizing the whole “verity writing from a villain’s pov” idea. It would have been amazing if the entire story was literally from Verity’s book and if she used both Lowen and Jeremy to write it. All the events are real, but some parts are exaggerated, reflecting how twisted and disturbing the villain is when they are obsessed with someone. Except, the letter Lowen found was planted by them and reveals how everything was set up, from the moment she met Jeremy to Jeremy attempting to kill Verity. Verity is still alive because she was faking it again and they basically used Lowen to help her get out of writer's block and finish her book series. However, after Lowen realized that she's in danger she tries to call the police, but they kill her to keep everything a secret. They moved out of that house and lived in another state with Crew to start over. Years later, Verity regained popularity when she recovered from her “injury” and released the remaining books in her series. They became super popular because of how realistic it felt, as if she was writing from a real experience. The secret here is that what she wrote in all her books is real and the villain lives happily ever after both on paper and in real life. Then the last sentence at the end of the story is a line from her very last book on the very last page, “No one ever believes the villain, but when they do, all they see is Verity.”

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Abortion, Sexual content, Death, Grief, Murder, Self harm, Mental illness, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Addiction, Body shaming, Miscarriage, Death of parent, and Blood

Minor: Car accident, Vomit, Cursing, and Infidelity

bkmckown's review

5.0

That was such a crazy book! You weren’t sure who to trust, everyone was crazy in one way or another. Verity’s chapter were SO hard to read. As a parent, I felt physical pain reading them. If I were in Jeremy’s shoes, I would’ve done the same. This book has lots of trigger warnings: abortion, child death, suicide, violence. It is not the usual Colleen Hoover book but it was a fantastic, edge of your seat thriller. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Death, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Car accident, Child death, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Blood, Injury/injury detail, Murder, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Violence, Abortion, Addiction, Death of parent, and Mental illness

grace_lynn08's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

Graphic: Abortion, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Injury/injury detail, Medical content, Miscarriage, Addiction, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Vomit, and Violence

carol_c26's review

dark emotional mysterious 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

1.5

meh didn't really like the book and it was very predictable. I feel like a lot of the appeal comes from the scandal of it all but it's just poorly written and I’m not super interested in this sensationalism. feels like it's just a bunch of sad and dark stuff thrown in together for a sad and dark soup 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Body horror, Child death, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Ableism, Addiction, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Torture, Abortion, Infertility, Infidelity, Medical content, and Self harm

book_becca's review

challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Injury/injury detail, Grief, Car accident, Addiction, Abandonment, Murder, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Abortion, Child abuse, Child death, Vomit, Sexual content, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Body shaming, Body horror, Gore, Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, and Chronic illness