A review by lalalauren20
Verity by Colleen Hoover

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I’m going to say this first. I’ve only read one other Hoover book. This story sucks you in & leaves you underwhelmed.

I’m not sure how each thing played out, but Jeremy was behind all of it. I think it’s easy to get to the end & point fingers at Verity or Lowen(main character), but Colleen is playing women knowing that women hate women and it’ll be easy for the audience to hate either Lowen our untrustworthy narrator or Verity our terrible mother figure. But somehow, there’s a perfectly written man in this book…come on come on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Abortion

Jeremy needed a reason to get rid of his wife. He’s the one who set up the whole thing. I mean even from the beginning this man was waiting for her at that cross walk. He’s the one who read her book, he knew that Löwen was a nobody and didn’t like fame and fortune so she was the perfect quiet naïve writer. Also Lowen has some mental issues so it just like perfect for Lowen to be like “idk what’s going on.” He literally made himself the perfect husband so that when he got to kill Verity he could. Jeremy wrote it & put a bunch of sex in there so it would trigger Lowen & make her hate Verity too. Jeremy set this all up because he blamed his wife for the death of the twins & he slipped away with a new wife who is now pregnant…