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A review by nikkihrose
Verity by Colleen Hoover
5.0
Wow.
I have a few choice expletives to shout after finishing this book, but I'll refrain. For now.
Instead, I'll share with you the reasons for my reaction:
This book is incredible. It is a psychological romance thriller that will keep you wanting more while also making you disgusted at just how horrific the human population can be.
Lowen Ashleigh is a young, struggling author. But she's being hired to "co-write" the remaining three books to a famous series because the original author is incapable of finishing it herself. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Verity Crawford, the original writer, is not only incapable of writing, she cannot move on her own due to a car accident that happened only days after the death of one of her daughters, which was six months after the death of the other daughter.
Two deaths and one immobile mother. Jeremy Crawford, Verity's husband and the one who ultimately hires Lowen, describes their family as "chronics" - because they are chronically expected to have one bad tragedy after the next.
Lowen moves into the Crawford's estate in order to decipher Verity's plans for the next three books while also attempting to get inside her mind in order to pull off this contracted writing obligation. What she doesn't expect is to fall for Jeremy - or to start seeing Verity moving when she supposedly cannot.
Thinking she's going crazy, Lowen keeps what she sees to herself at first, but even when she tells Jeremy, he doesn't believe her. But Jeremy doesn't know the entire truth - not the way Lowen does, because Lowen has found Verity's unpublished autobiographical manuscript outlining every horrific thought and action the woman has done since the day she married Jeremy. And Lowen has to decide whether or not to let the man she's falling for maintain his pleasant memories of his wife, or reveal the truth to him.
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I could not put down this book. And even as I approached the end and thought I had every truth figured out, Colleen Hoover manages to flip everything upside down, reveal a potentially even bigger truth, but ultimately leave you wondering what that truth truly is.
Definitely pick up this book if you have a chance. You won't be disappointed. But be prepared for graphic and horrific examples of what one mother is capable of.
I have a few choice expletives to shout after finishing this book, but I'll refrain. For now.
Instead, I'll share with you the reasons for my reaction:
This book is incredible. It is a psychological romance thriller that will keep you wanting more while also making you disgusted at just how horrific the human population can be.
Lowen Ashleigh is a young, struggling author. But she's being hired to "co-write" the remaining three books to a famous series because the original author is incapable of finishing it herself. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Verity Crawford, the original writer, is not only incapable of writing, she cannot move on her own due to a car accident that happened only days after the death of one of her daughters, which was six months after the death of the other daughter.
Two deaths and one immobile mother. Jeremy Crawford, Verity's husband and the one who ultimately hires Lowen, describes their family as "chronics" - because they are chronically expected to have one bad tragedy after the next.
Lowen moves into the Crawford's estate in order to decipher Verity's plans for the next three books while also attempting to get inside her mind in order to pull off this contracted writing obligation. What she doesn't expect is to fall for Jeremy - or to start seeing Verity moving when she supposedly cannot.
Thinking she's going crazy, Lowen keeps what she sees to herself at first, but even when she tells Jeremy, he doesn't believe her. But Jeremy doesn't know the entire truth - not the way Lowen does, because Lowen has found Verity's unpublished autobiographical manuscript outlining every horrific thought and action the woman has done since the day she married Jeremy. And Lowen has to decide whether or not to let the man she's falling for maintain his pleasant memories of his wife, or reveal the truth to him.
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I could not put down this book. And even as I approached the end and thought I had every truth figured out, Colleen Hoover manages to flip everything upside down, reveal a potentially even bigger truth, but ultimately leave you wondering what that truth truly is.
Definitely pick up this book if you have a chance. You won't be disappointed. But be prepared for graphic and horrific examples of what one mother is capable of.