One Star Reviews 7/8/2024

Ashley French
2 min readJul 8, 2024
Photo by Mike Kilcoyne on Unsplash

A couple of weeks ago, I started an instagram page called one star book reviews. There’s not much on there right now because I’ve been on vacation plus I’m not good at keeping up with that kind of thing even though I want to. I’m light of all that, I think it’d be cool to start a new series on here called one star reviews. Right now I’ll do books but maybe I’ll expand to movies and music. We’ll see. I’ll start with a couple of books today and I’ll play around with it to find a good fit.

Verity by Colleen Hoover

Verity was published in 2021 by Grand Central Publishing. It has 4.6 stars out of 5 on Amazon and won the Goodreads choice award and the British book awards for page turner. Some have pinned it as the most “suspenseful book I have ever read.” Other people disagree:

  • “A deeply unpleasant and distasteful attempt at domestic suspense…” — Goodreads reviewer
  • “The unseasoned, Wal-Mart brand version of Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier.” — Goodreads Reviewer
  • “Never going to get my brain cells back reading this” — Goodreads reviewer

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Considered by many as the Great American Read, Gone With the Wind follows rich, spoiled plantation daughter Scarlett O’Hara as she navigates…

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