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Without Merit
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Candace Thaxton
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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Summary
From Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us, comes a moving and haunting novel of family, love, and the power of the truth.
Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness.
The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s former nurse, the little half-brother isn’t allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. Then, there’s Merit.
Merit Voss collects trophies she hasn’t earned and secrets her family forces her to keep. While browsing the local antiques shop for her next trophy, she finds Sagan. His wit and unapologetic idealism disarm and spark renewed life into her—until she discovers that he’s completely unavailable. Merit retreats deeper into herself, watching her family from the sidelines, when she learns a secret that no trophy in the world can fix.
Fed up with the lies, Merit decides to shatter the happy family illusion that she’s never been a part of before leaving them behind for good. When her escape plan fails, Merit is forced to deal with the staggering consequences of telling the truth and losing the one boy she loves.
Poignant and powerful, Without Merit explores the layers of lies that tie a family together and the power of love and truth.
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- Julie Mooney
- 21-10-21
Totally absorbing
Loved the characters and the complexity and adorability of Merit. The dynamics of the family and the ongoing communication problems made it a beautiful’ listen ‘ as it all unravelled, and they realised how the gravity of their misunderstandings had impacted on their family life. The narrator captures the characters beautifully. Loved it .
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- Kat Jones
- 05-08-24
Good characters but not a strong story
It was an ok listen but not like any of her others and a little flat at the end.
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- Maria Bates
- 23-01-24
Recommend
Great characters. A story of a family finding truths about each other. I would recommend.
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- Paula Puddephatt
- 30-03-24
Loved it
Dysfunctional families make for great fiction. This was definitely Colleen Hoover at her best. Highly recommended.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-12-18
Random...
The first Colleen Hoover book I haven’t really enjoyed. It was a very quirky story but for me that wasn’t a positive. A little too random for my taste.
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- jovita rakauskaite
- 26-10-23
Nice book
Tooked me a while to get in to this book, but it was so worth it
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- Amazon Customer
- 18-08-23
Dull. Storyless. Not Colleen's finest...
I love this author and always read/listen to her books, but what a waste of credit and 8 or so hours I won't get back. I appreciate that not every single book by an author can be gold standard, but this was just awful.
I don't fully understand the point of the story. it led you to believe there would be these big dark secrets revealed and the fact it revolved around a 17 year old girl whose voice was cast by an old woman made it really hard to picture the main character. Huge Colleen fan, but this was definitely not her finest hour.
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