Without Merit

A Novel

De: Colleen Hoover

Narrado por: Candace Thaxton

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.

Soooooo gooooooood!!! Ms.Hoover never disappoints

Absolutely well written, i could not put it down. i am a total fan!!! really good, its a coming of age story, it felt relatable

Without Merit is beyond amazing

I’m beginning to wonder if Colleen Hoover has sold her soul to the devil in order to make her one of the most incredible writers of our time. I’m so in love with this book. The storyline covers so many important subjects for teens and adults. It covers the struggle of most all family’s in the world. Listening to this book just made it come to life even more. Such an important read for everyone who thinks their family is “strange”, or teens suffering from depression, suicidal thoughts, kids of divorce, worrying about their sexuality and the list goes on and on. Probably should be on every high school mandatory reading list and every Book Club, no matter what your age is (I’m 54.) I can’t praise this book or its writer enough. Just listen to it. You’ll be glad you did.

The dog

Kind of boring, no very boring. I usually love Colleen Hoover’s book’s but this one I will not recommend

Loved this narrator!

I’m shocked that others didn’t like this narrator. I thought she did an excellent job. She was also hilarious in her tone of voice. I’m pretty sure I laughed out loud with this book a lot simply because of her tone of voice. The storyline was just ok. First C. Hoover book I’ve read. Not sure if I’ll try another. Too much unstated author opinions for me.

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Some people complained about the narrator’s voice, but although it was different from other Colleen Hoover’s audibles, I find the voice very fitting for the character.
I loved the story and enjoyed listening to it. I’ve yet to find a Colleen Hoover book I haven’t enjoyed and I only have two books left to listen to 🤩
Thank you Colleen