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Without Merit

Written by: Colleen Hoover
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton
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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.

©2017 Colleen Hoover (P)2017 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Family drama with a twist

Digs under the surface to discover misperceptions can pull a family apart and honest communication can bring them back together.

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Underwhelming

The idea of the story is there and it’s understandable why the author wrote it, but it’s just super underwhelming. The main character although I have so much compassion for her is irritating at points. This audio also cut out a few times which was frustrating.

Not a terrible read but also wouldn’t have missed out if I didn’t read it.

The author has a lot of other amazing books though!

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Super boring

This story was really boring and disappointing. The entire book nothing significant happened and the narrating didn’t match the character

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