A review by saeruh
Verity by Colleen Hoover

dark mysterious

3.5

   It was so interesting to see through the eyes of such unlikable characters. Lowen mostly because she’s so bland and doesn’t have much going for her character at all except for how much she DESPERATELY wants to live in the life of the woman she’s writing for, to the point where she’s willing to do immoral things to get there. Verity (through the autobiography) as a such a cold person who is only obsessed with sex rather than emotional part of a relationship and who
is willing to kill/attempt to kill her kid to get more attention from her husband
. There was just a bit too many plots holes for me
like if Jeremy was also in the car crash with Verity, why didn’t he have any injuries bc even if he did have a seat belt, you’re still gonna be dealing with broken ribs, bruises, etc. Also why did he suddenly decide he needed to kill Verity when Lowen showed him the manuscript even though he had already seen it?? Also so fucked up how Lowen made sure she got pregnant so she could be the perfect wife/mother that Jeremy never got to experience. Lowen couldn’t even look after Crew (ex. the time she let him play with knife until he bit it and needed stitches)
. I don’t think the kid needed to be attempted to made seen ‘evil’ like he was just a little kid who had gone through trauma. I don’t think Jeremy is the perfect man everyone made him out to be, there’s something fucked up there that everyone is missing. Why didn’t the nurse taking care of Verity suspect that she was faking it?
What the hell type of writing process is where you have to write the opposite of what you want to???
Also there was way too much sex for what there needed to be but I get Hoover was trying to show how obsessed Verity was with Jeremy.
     Overall, the book kept me well entertained during a slow work day. Not very creepy or jumpscary to me but could be to some. 
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