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Verity, by Colleen Hoover

106 reviews

eggfartz's review

challenging 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Vomit, Gore, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Alcohol, Death of parent, Grief, Cursing, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Physical abuse

cassidysreads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I never wrote a review with my initial read, but holy crap. This book is all kinds of messed up. It truthfully messes with your head in such a horrific way, but it's also incredibly hard to put down. It's like it's so horrifying you can't look away even though you want to.

Truth be told, I was blessed in that I forgot the majority of the details of this book. Hopefully the same can be said for the second time around as I do not wish to remember this horrible book.

Was the writing good? Yes. Was it thrilling? Yes. But did it absolutely horrify me, disgust me, and make me never want to touch it again? Yes, yes, YES. I leave this as a warning to my future self: do NOT read it again.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Pregnancy and Abortion

Minor: Blood, Cursing, Car accident, and Alcohol

ciwanski's review

challenging dark sad 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

2.5

BEFORE ANYONE SAYS ANYTHING!!!! I read this book because coho is my best friend’s favorite author rn and I’ve always been anti coho but I told her I’d read one of her books to form an opinion on her writing by myself. Hopefully the rating and this review proves that I am still anti. 

Obviously I’m biased coming into reading, but I tried to remain objective. I’ll start with compliments! Colleen Hoover definitely writes in a way that makes her book very digestible . Not necessarily talking about subject matter, but just the language she uses is easy to read making her books very quick reads. She also definitely knows how to add tension and thrill! Her twist at the end does make you question things which is kind of fun! That’s about all I have as far as compliments go lmao 

Now my complaints…. I won’t be TOO heavy handed here but Jesus. This book was published in 2018 but I felt like I was reading something from 2013 wattpad most of the time. I hated literally every single character. The characterization was shallow and the relationships were shallow. The timeline didn’t make sense. Colleen told us so many things instead of opting to show us. Many details were brought up that could’ve added to the story but ultimately very much did not. Spoiler but

Spoiler

pregnancy trope

AND THE WORST THING!!! NO ONE HAS CHARTREUSE EYES COLLEEN WTF IF YOURE GOING TO USE A COLOR DESCRIPTOR AT LEAST LOOK UP THE FUCKING COLOR 

so yeah sorry to my best friend but this was not a good book. It was an engaging book. It was not good. I remain a coho hater.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Murder, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Cancer, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

infjkiki's review

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, Vomit, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Death, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Child abuse, Child death, Murder, Blood, and Infidelity

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Cancer, Confinement, and Addiction

squidknees's review

dark funny 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

3.25

Quick and fun. Thrilling!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Vomit, Child abuse, Suicide, Medical trauma, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Abortion, Alcohol, Violence, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Self harm, Medical content, Murder, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Infidelity, Body horror, Child death, Death of parent, Ableism, Torture, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Classism, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Drug use, and Dysphoria

Minor: Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, and Animal cruelty

sleepylit's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Abortion, Body horror, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Gore, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Minor: Vomit, Kidnapping, Terminal illness, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

ashjhenn's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Abortion, and Murder

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Alcohol, Drug use, and Vomit

charlie6's review against another edition

dark 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, Drug use, and Vomit

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

lauren717's review

dark tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Blood, Pregnancy, Grief, Abortion, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, and Sexual content

Minor: Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Death, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Abortion, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Blood, Cancer, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Murder, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Car accident, and Child abuse