Without Merit

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Wtf is this water in my eyes ? Is there an onion near me? Am I crying AGAIN? God damn, my emotions are everywhere. En conclusión: Without Merit es una historia de drama adolescente, que nos deja ver de una forma realista, triste y complicada lo que es vivir con una enfermedad mental.

I like that there was a specific focus on family and mental health rather than just sex and boy-drama. It made for a nice change.Listen, I couldn’t contain myself. It had to be done. I have no regrets. Okay, I lied. I totally regret screaming for 5 minutes straight. My throat didn't deserve this cruelty. In all honesty, I apologize if you're reading this entire review like, "omg this is such a hot mess". Well, I'll be kind enough to provide y'all a an excuse translation for this whole thing. I love that every character had a purpose, and every character had a hand in helping Merit to start her journey in treating her depression. I love that these secrets she keeps, and watching her confront them, isn't glossed over. That each one is hard, and painful, and we see her work through them anyways. I love that she isn't miraculously "cured" in the end... but truly starting her journey with the help of a professional. Antes vivían al lado de una iglesia, pero como a su padre le molestaba que el perro del pastor ladrara mucho, cuando tuvo la oportunidad de comprarla, la compró. Ahora viven en la iglesia reformada y a pesar de que es ateo dejaron la estatua de Jesucristo tamaño gigante en uno de los pasillos. No one would be able to determine any of that from inside our house, either. We’re good at keeping secrets in this family. This character driven book definitely takes you on a rollercoaster of emotion and it is absolutely a ride I am thrilled I took! Highly recommend two fans of this author and anyone else who enjoys a book with amazing characters young or old!

wasted on the cover like *slow claps*, talk about aesthetics. I feel like whoever designed this, quite literally, went into my brain and took out everything I ever wanted for this cover. No amount of words will be able to describe the eternal love I've developed for this book. I want to scream. I want to cry. Okay, why not both???? Like I said, ever since this book, I've been one tall glass of emotion. Without Merit, is going to be stored somewhere deep inside my heart. It's not like I had a choice. This book demanded to move inside my heart and was like, "yo i'm just gonna live here". A haunting novel about family, love, and the power of the truth showing that not every mistake deserves a consequence... and that sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness. In terms of the characters, Sagan was too much of an angelic, can-do-no-wrong person, IMO. He was the "good one" in a field of more complex characters, and it irked me.

I'm not sure how to properly phrase this in a way that won't make people want to rip my head off, so I'm just going to go for it. If this paragraph doesn't make sense, you don't agree, or you think I an idiot, that's cool, please just move on. Basically, I feel a little bit cheated with this book. Everyone has genres that they like, yes? Well this is a CoHo book, who is known for her monumental, everlasting, earth shattering love stories. Without Merit is very vague, between both the cover and blurb so you don't have a good sense of what you're going in to. But between the author (come on, we all know what we're getting when you hear the name Colleen Hoover) and the opening chapter -- OMG MY HEART -- well, I expected one of those monumental, everlasting, earth shattering love stories. And I didn't get it. I feel like I was lead on or something because that seemed to be the way the book was heading, until it wasn't. I was rooting for Sagan and Merit so hard until, well, it became a story that I didn't want it to. And frankly, who cares what I want, I get that, but when you're expecting one thing, hoping for one thing, and you don't get it... Well, it's a little disappointing. Even Goodreads has Romance tagged as one of the genres but yet, here we are. I think my favorite part of this story was Sagan reminding Merit that we all have different stress levels for the things we're going through. I think that's just such an important reminder, so I wanted to end this the way I began it, with a quote: First, I want everyone to know that this is not a romance novel, just in case you thought it would be. There’s a touch of romance, but nothing swoon worthy. That wasn’t a problem for me – I just had to adjust my mindset, but that only took me ten minutes, max. It’s more of a story about acceptance and understanding – finding yourself, so to speak. Just like many other Colleen Hoover books, there is an important message written in the words. I'm not even sure home is a word that can be used to describe where I live. It's just a house filled with people who are counting down the days until they don't have to live with each other anymore." Ella es cínica, sarcástica, y vive en su propio mundo, donde ve las cosas a su manera sin tomarse el tiempo de pensar en los demás, trata muy mal a todos, la parte en la que más la odie fue cuando le dijo al pobre de Moby que casi fue un bastardo.