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Verity by Colleen Hoover

47 reviews

iliketoreadxoxo's review

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Body shaming

0liviamarie's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Blood, Body shaming, Cancer, Car accident, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Grief, Self harm, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Abortion, Domestic abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

john_pascoe's review

dark medium-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

3.0

 Honestly a bit creepy but Jeremy is such a romantic. I hate the last line so MUCH. This deviates so far from Colleen Hoover's usual writing style. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Suicide, Child death, Child abuse, Murder, Ableism, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Suicide attempt

giannaa01's review

dark emotional mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

this book was INSANE. i’ve never read a book like this but i loved it. 

Spoiler

the ending was absolutely INSANE. team manuscript or team letter?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Abortion, Death, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual content, and Child abuse

Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Car accident

Minor: Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Misogyny, and Suicide attempt

rumfordsam's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Grief, Infidelity, Violence, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, and Gore

tfeighny's review

dark mysterious sad tense fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Eating disorder, Child death, and Child abuse

ankiaisreading'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? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Grief, Murder, Car accident, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Mental illness, Self harm, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Violence, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Abortion, Blood, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, and Eating disorder

m4rtt4's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

Better than I expected! I decided to read Verity after reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, and while there definitely were many similarities, Verity also gladly had so much originality in it that I wouldn't call them the same. The mystery and suspense were rather well built, though the plot was overall very predictable and thus didn't manage to surprise me as much; it also relied too much on shock value when I would have preferred subtlety and reading between the lines.

I definitely prefer this book to Hoover's other books that focus more on the romance, though also in this one I hated the romance the most — I wouldn't call it unnecessary, but definitely unnecessarily detailed and too sex-focused, at least to my (dis)liking. Also are there any CoHo books that are not problematic at all? Just wondering, as Verity also very much lacked in the discussion and presence of consent and protection in sexual acts... also blaming women's clothes for men's uncontrollable arousal (and eventually rape) is soooo last century — could you please stop upkeeping rape culture, especially as a fellow woman?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Murder, Abortion, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

Moderate: Medical content, Abandonment, Body shaming, Car accident, Eating disorder, Excrement, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Miscarriage, and Vomit

basicallyki's review

1.0

if this is actually colleen hoovers best book she should not write again. it is so problematic and simply disgusting. maybe i’m missing the point but i really think that even if i am some how, it is because her writing was just that bad. 

what was the point? that’s what i asked myself after every potential plot point was never discussed again. the sleep walking, the obsession from three separate characters, the “is the husband a creep”, the “is the child a psycho” and everything else that was mentioned once and never again. 

the twist was decent but the reaction to it and what came of it ruined it. jeremy and lowen are terrible people throughout the entire book and not once was a rooting for them individually or as a couple. every single character needs therapy and i fully believe the the author does too. her exploitation of trauma is weird, the anti choice throughout the book is excessive and impossible to ignore.  

honestly i could rant forever and i’ve missed a lot of points i wanted to make in this review but i’m sure there are better ones out there that can explain it more thoroughly than i can because i want to put my phone down and forget everything about this awful experience. 

over all if felt like a waste of my time. i’ve read one other book by her and after reading them both i won’t be picking up another. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death of parent, Sexual content, Infidelity, Mental illness, Murder, Abortion, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Grief, Pregnancy, and Misogyny

Moderate: Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, and Miscarriage

Minor: Vomit

ayla_smith's review

mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Abortion, and Child death

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Eating disorder