Weekend Highlight: Without Merit by Colleen Hoover
It’s time for our weekly highlight. Yes, that book that UTC is dying for everyone to read this week. It’s our recommendation and we are giving you a chance to win it!
Colleen Hoover
Now let’s hear it from Francesca!
Book Info
Released: October 3 2017
Genre: Young Adult
Published by Atria Books
Pages: 384
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us and November 9 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.
About Colleen Hoover
Colleen Hoover is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of fourteen novels and five novellas. Hoover’s novels fall into the New Adult and Young Adult contemporary romance categories.
Hoover published her first novel, Slammed, in January 2012. It debuted at #5 on the New York Times. Since then, all her eligible works have become New York Times best sellers.
Colleen Hoover is published by Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. Colleen also has several self-published titles.
In 2013, Colleen’s third novel, Hopeless, was the first self-published novel to reach #1 on The New York Times, where it remained for several weeks. Hopeless went on to become one of the top 20 bestselling ebooks of 2013.
In 2015, Colleen’s novel CONFESS won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance. That was followed up in 2016 with her latest title, It Ends With Us, also winning the Choice Award for Best Romance. In 2017, her title WITHOUT MERIT won best romance.
Her novel CONFESS has been filmed as a series by Awestruck and is available on Go90.com. Katie Leclerc and Ryan Cooper star in the series.
Colleen founded The Bookworm Box, a charity subscription service and bookstore, with her family in 2015. The Bookworm Box is a subscription service that provides readers with an exciting opportunity to receive signed novels in the mail each month from authors all over the world. All profits from the subscription service are donated to various charities each month. To date, The Bookworm Box has donated over $1,000,000 to help those in need.
Colleen’s next release is All Your Perfects, a contemporary romance novel due to release through Atria Books in July, 2018
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I get easily distracted by pictures of sexy guys and have tons of book boyfriends.I keep all my alpha males chained to my basement and guard them fiercely.*Back off bitches*I like to see Jason Momoa as a lot of those boyfriends, because ….. mmmmmmm JASON.MOMOA!
I’m a part time graphic designer (yes, everything you see on UTC has been done by me), run my husband's business from home and on a good day I’m a self appointed superwoman (she who can do it all).I love blogging with my girls and I couldn’t do it any other way!My first love is everything paranormal, but in the past few years I’ve re-learned to love contemporary romance.Every once in a while I like to mix things up with a historical romance, a steampunk or an LGBT book.Because I need variety to avoid book slumps.I don’t always need an HEA although I prefer one, and I love authors that can rip my heart out and make me ugly cry.
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Great Youtube review Francesca! Colleen is a hit or miss for me, I will read this book when I am in the mood for it.
Thank you for the review! <3
This book sounds so good! Thanks for sharing! 😀
Nice review! Colleen is my favorite author. I love all her books. I haven’t read this one yet but definitely going to!
Excited about this book,looking forward to read!
Thanks for the great review Francesca 🙂
Great review Francesca!! On my tbr gr list!! Shared on all my socials!!
Great review! I’ve been looking forward to reading Without Merit!
I need to check out this one!
This sounds very interesting….thanks
Thank you for sharing hun ! I think this sounds like a awesome read .
Colleen is my favorite, and most consistent, author. She never lets me down and I love the characters she creates. Thanks for the chance!
Thank you!
I borrowed this from my library and read on Friday, it was a 5 star read for me.
So happy to hear that!
Thank you for the awesome giveaway! <3
Great review!
Thank you so much for the opportunity xo
Thanks for this chance!
Thanks so much for the giveaway!
Looking forward to reading it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts Francesca
Thanks for the chance <3 love her books <3
Thanks for the giveaway. I’m currently reading Without Merit and all I can say is WOW.
Love the review! I can’t wait to have a physical copy of this book(hopefully a signed one as that’d be my first signed CoHo book ?).
Thank you for the chance. ?
Nice review! Colleen is my favorite author. I love all her books. I haven’t read this one yet but definitely going to!
Excited about this book,looking forward to read!
Thanks for the great review Francesca 🙂
Thank you for the review! <3
This book sounds so good! Thanks for sharing! 😀
Great Youtube review Francesca! Colleen is a hit or miss for me, I will read this book when I am in the mood for it.
Great review! I’ve been looking forward to reading Without Merit!
I need to check out this one!
This sounds very interesting….thanks
Great review Francesca!! On my tbr gr list!! Shared on all my socials!!
Thank you for the awesome giveaway! <3
Thank you!
Colleen is my favorite, and most consistent, author. She never lets me down and I love the characters she creates. Thanks for the chance!
Thanks for this chance!
Thank you so much for the opportunity xo
Thank you for sharing hun ! I think this sounds like a awesome read .
I borrowed this from my library and read on Friday, it was a 5 star read for me.
So happy to hear that!
Great review!
Looking forward to reading it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts Francesca
Thanks for the giveaway. I’m currently reading Without Merit and all I can say is WOW.
Thanks for the chance <3 love her books <3
Love the review! I can’t wait to have a physical copy of this book(hopefully a signed one as that’d be my first signed CoHo book 💚).
Thank you for the chance. 😊
Thanks so much for the giveaway!