“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.
Colleen Hoover is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Slammed, Point of Retreat, This Girl, Hopeless, Losing Hope, Finding Cinderella, Maybe Someday, Maybe Not, Ugly Love, Confess, November 9, and It Ends with Us. Colleen has won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance twice—for Confess in 2015 and It Ends with Us in 2016. Confess was adapted into a seven-episode online series. In 2015, Colleen and her family founded The Bookworm Box, a bookstore and monthly subscription service offering signed novels donated by authors. All profits are given to various charities each month to help those in need. Colleen lives in Texas with her husband and their three boys. Visit ColleenHoover.com.
Releasing October 3rd, 2017
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I love this book! Totally not my first choice in genre of book, just one I grabbed off the library recommended shelf before going on Christmas break (in a rush) and I was so pleased I did! What I really liked about it, was the whole perspective angle and that it really made you kind of evaluate yourself too. No book I’ve ever read has made me do this, these characters will stick with me for a long time! Thanks for writing such a great book. Also, as an insomniac, I read the whole book in a night and wasn’t even remotely bothered by the fact that I’d not slept at all that night, because I enjoyed it so much!
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I have devoured your books and Without Merit was a one sitting read for me and a favorite. Thank you for writing such excellent books!!
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I loved this book!!! Honestly I wanted more! Maybe a sequel? I was so sad for it to end. Amazing author Colleen Hoover! Thank you!!
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Every time I read the end of it I always cry! ugh I have depression and it sucks, but its so like what you wrote in the book. it just crepes up on me. ugh I love your style of writing.
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