Verity: Book Review

Colleen Hoover's Verity is an emotional rollercoaster ride with so many unsettling plot twists you may get motion sickness. This book is an excellent delve into twisty, messy humans and will keep you guessing until the end.

Verity by Colleen Hoover

3.5 stars

This book is intense, and not in the high-stakes thriller kind of way. Verity, by Coleen Hoover, will at once intrigue, captivate, infuriate, horrify, and unsettle you. It is simultaneously unsatisfying and fully engrossing. It has a plot-twisting what-the-hell is going to happen next kind of intensity that will draw you in from the get-go.

Maturity warning: This book is not for children and not in a 50 shades type of way, but in a you may never sleep again and you might never trust another human being after reading this book.

Synopsis:

Lowen Ashleigh is a novelist given the opportunity to ghostwrite the final three novels in Verity Crawford’s bestselling series. Verity is bedridden and unresponsive after an accident. Lowen moves into Verity’s remote mansion with Verity’s husband and child to sort through notes about the series and begin the project. The stay takes a turn when Lowen begins to uncover unsettling facts about Verity’s history and begins to question her own sanity and safety within the house.

The creep factor for this novel is intense and the strangeness with which the novel begins only increases. Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, Hoover pulls a fast one and leaves you with your jaw on the floor.

This novel grapples with the type of mature topics that leave you questioning humanity and wondering if you should even finish the book now that you’ve started. Parts of this book made me want to throw it against the wall and walk away. Maybe, bury it in my backyard and never look for it again. Yet, the same things that make you want to hurl the book at a brick wall are also the things that intrigue you, draw you in for more and make you keep reading.

The writing is at times awkward. Yet, how Hoover weaves the story and twists the events to keep the reader engaged and make them question what they know is spectacular. I enjoyed the book and devoured it in days.

There was writing that felt shaky, but overall this is a really good book and worth the time to read. That is, if you are willing to undergo the emotional roller coaster you will certainly be on while reading it and maybe question the world when you are done.

Read at your own risk, but you won’t regret it.

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