My Killer Vacation is an insta-love story, but it's cute nonetheless.

Taylor is a second-grade teacher who babies her little brother for no apparent reason, and when they stumble upon a murder scene on their vacation. Taylor instantly thinks she can solve the case because she's listened to like four crime podcasts. Because that's what makes a good detective, right?

Myles..... is interesting, but in such a dull way. He's a bounty hunter who took on this detective job because he owed a favor. He becomes quickly obsessed with Taylor ('s body) but constantly thinks that he is wrong for wanting her. It gives me weird vibes that he's lusting over her, but it's a romance story, so I guess it needs something.

They literally fall in love and become obsessed with each other over the span of 5 days. Insta-love stories always fall kind of short for me, but the murder mystery aspect of the book pulled it back up to the four-star rating.

Let's start with the trigger warnings, shall we?
- Descriptions of self-harm
- Mentions of suicide
- Mentions of sexual abuse
- Murder (obviously)

I knocked a whole ass star off this review because of the descriptions of self-harm. It was unnecessary and did nothing for the storyline or the character. Alright, if the author felt it was necessary to have it in the plot, at least don't describe how she did it! Mentioning self-harm scars, either fresh or healed, is more than enough to display her feelings and hurt.

I liked the multiple POVs and loved that it always reminded us whose POV we were reading about. "Jules, the bride," "Hannah, the plus one," because I have a terrible memory and would've forgotten who was who if the POVs just had the names.

I did call who got murdered right from the start but found myself quite annoyed that the murder occurred at the end, plus who got arrested for the murder. I like having the needed backstories for every character and getting to know their relationships on a deeper level, but I would've liked the murder to happen maybe 3/4 of the story or even halfway.

A massive shout-out to the content warning at the start of the book! I've never seen that before, and I absolutely love it. Including content warnings is essential, especially because the book contains heavier topics.

I relate to Hani more than I would like, as when I came out as bisexual a couple of years ago, everyone treated it as a stepping stone before coming out as gay. It's infuriating. Why can't we be who we want to be without all the stigmas around it?

I really loved the book. It was heartwarming and cute, although it dealt with a few heavier topics that I didn't understand fully. I am a white woman living in a primarily white community, my mum supports me through almost everything, and I know she wouldn't disown me for anything short of mur*er. However, the concept of parental abandonment is so foreign to me, and I can't fathom how a parent lets go of their own flesh and blood like that.


Overall, the book is fantastic, and I recommend it to absolutely everyone and their mother. I couldn't understand everything in the book, but I suppose that it would've been easy enough to translate it.

I have a question, though! In the book, they talk about Ishu's hair being on the shorter side, but both of the characters on my copy have longer hair. I see the edition listed here on Goodreads has Ishu with shorter, shoulder-length hair but yeah. It doesn't even matter, I just found it funny when I realized.

“Stop,” I whisper. I don’t want to hear him defend what just happened. “Just finish, Miles.”
[……..]
“Just finish, Miles,” I say to him through my tears. “Just finish.”

Everything that I need to say in order to justify the 2 stars to be honest. Completely describes their relationship.
He over her. His needs over hers. His sex drive over her feelings.

1,5 stars. Dnf at 54%

I couldn’t care less about these characters. There is NO plot as it is extremely character driven book, and since I just genuinely hate them with every fiber of my being,- I won’t torture myself any longer. Thank you

Dnf at like 80% but still felt worthy of 3 stars

This is the first adult book that I've read by Hoover. I was a bit nervous because I've read Ugly Love and November 9th and hated both of them. However, I did like It Ends With Us, so I wanted to give Verity a fair shot.

I am so glad that I decided to read this book! It is so different from her other books and really pulled me in from the start... I mean, talk about an eye-catching first page...

I definitely am team manuscript, but I would actually love to debate the whole thing with someone that's team letter.

"I will write a review tomorrow and give it a rating. I just need to sit with it a while." I said on October 27th, 2022... I still can not wrap my head around this beautiful, messy, disgusting, astonishing piece of literature.

The writing is beautiful.
The story is horrifying.
This book made me want to throw up multiple times, yet I somehow only managed to shed ONE tear?! This book makes people suicidal, and yet somehow, I had a singular tear on my cheek.

I hate the book.
I love the book.
I want to burn the book.

Trigger warnings for literally everything you can ever imagine.
I do not recommend it to anyone, ever.
I recommend it to everyone.

Do not tab the moments you relate to Jude. You will hate your life more than you already do.
It makes you sick.
Do not do it.
You will need approximately 15 packs of blue tabs if you are tabbing sad moments.

Give me a minute here, I need to rant.

Books one and two in this series are honestly so good, not perfect by any means but 4 - 4,5 stars.

HOWEVER, this third and final book is a train wreck, to say the least. 2 stars out of five is GENEROUS. I have a few reasons for this judgement.

- The whole story revolves around a miscommunication between the main characters. Okay sure, sometimes we misunderstand each other and situations, but this miscommunication leads to a 11 year long drift and they don’t trust each other because of this miscommunication. Definitely one of my least favorite tropes!

- They go from almost enemies to friends to lovers in such a short time, even though they don’t trust each other for shit in the first half.

- Brendan (the brother and main character in book two) is SO annoying. Stop mf meddling! He butts his ass into everything, and is PROUD of it!! Okay I get setting your friends up with someone, with their permission. However, setting up some stranger you’ve known for like 2 weeks??

- The whole Ski scene drove me mad. Okay so they are in some unknown territory where they haven’t defined what they are to each other and that is confusing. But the possessiveness between them is infuriating.

Overall, a huge letdown. What the fuck.