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Without Merit

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Without Merit

By: Colleen Hoover
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton
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 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reminders of Him and 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. Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Psychological Romance Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction
About the Creator - Colleen Hoover

About the Creator

Colleen Hoover is the #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon bestselling author of more than 23 novels, including It Ends with Us, All Your Perfects, Ugly Love, and Verity. In 2015, Colleen and her family founded a nonprofit called The Bookworm Box, a bookstore and monthly book subscription service that has donated over $1,000,000 to various charities to date. Colleen lives in Texas with her husband and their three boys. For more information, please visit ColleenHoover.com.
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Enjoyed this ! Wasn’t sure I would ! However great story and enjoyable . Captivated throughout - found myself finding tasks to do so I could listen

Captivating and great message

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randomly stumbled into this book and loved it! Narrator isn’t my favourite but story was better then expected

Amazing surprise

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Loved the message of everyone cares even if we don’t think so! Pulled at the heart strings

Great story

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I have had this book in my library for a while now and decided now was the time to delve back into the world of Colleen Hoover’s storytelling. I love her unique stories which are always full of feels happy and sad.

Without Merit did not disappoint. I was so invested in the lives of the Voss family who were the most dysfunctional family I have ever come across.

The story revolves around Merit and the family drama that surrounds and affects her. It was powerful and there were so many layers to it, depressions, love, grief and sexuality.

This was an emotional read full of feels and characters that were real with their struggles.

I loved this story and below are two of my favourite highlights.

"Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness."

“Don’t make your presence known. Make your absence felt.”

5*Dysfunctional Family Stars

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I loved this story and the narration. I actually thought the narrator really got the vibe right. great message. I listened to this over a couple of days

great story, great narrator

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