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A review by aish_dols
Verity by Colleen Hoover
4.0
'Verity Crawford' – An extremely successful author, was involved in an accident and unable to complete her series, 'The Noble Virtues'. Six parts have been published and the remaining three parts are left hanging until Pantem Press want another author, who later happens to be Lowen, a young woman who is on the brink of financial ruin, to complete the other books since she writes in the same genre as Verity. This contract is worth half a million dollars.
Lowen takes the job and is invited to Verity's home, courtesy of Jeremy, to come check out his wife's luxury but messy office for ideas that may help her finish the series since Verity left a lot of notes lying about.
In Jeremy's words..."The world was her manuscript. No surface was safe."
While working, Lowen finds an autobiography of Verity that was never meant to be found nor read. In it she discovers dark and disturbing secrets Things the well loved author did to her own children, her questionable obsession with Jeremy and the real truth behind her other daughter, Harper's death, months after one of them, Chastin died.
In this autobiography, I found Verity to be vicious, callous, psychotic. It all made sense, how she was able to write six books from the villain's point of view. Lowen, however revels in it somehow, content that the brilliant Verity is a monster, because why not? She is falling in love with Jeremy and it helps to know the woman he cares for so greatly is actually a demon. Some hope for her, yes?
Colleen Hoover did a good job of twisting my mind so I will twist this review for fun. The hideous things Verity wrote in her autobiography included, trying to abort her own children with a wire hanger in the bathroom because Jeremy seemed to love the twins growing in her belly more than her, Putting off the baby monitor and leaving the twins to cry after they were born so she could attend to her writing, Choking Harper and nearly suffocating her to death for disconnected reasons. These things were dark but not as dark as what really happened when Harper drowned.
The author did a fine job of giving the characters their own lives. It wasn't rushed, I saw their personalities vividly but the book got me at the end with a letter and all I'd do is leave a fragment of it that Verity herself wrote while pretending to be sick to save herself from the rage and madness of her husband, to save her life because Jeremy had tried to murder her twice before Lowen even walked into their lives.
The ending left me unsettled. I doff my hat for Colleen Hoover's weaving powers. She's a master in her art.
I'll end this review with a fragment from the letter that ends the book, that throws we the readers into turmoil.
"I can’t explain the mind of a writer to you, Jeremy. Especially the mind of a writer who has been through more devastation than most writers combined. We’re able to separate our reality from fiction in such a way that it feels as if we live in both worlds, but never both worlds at once." – Verity.
Maybe Verity is crazy. Maybe Jeremy is insane. Maybe, just maybe, Lowen herself is the psychotic one who wants this story the way she wants it. Anything for love. Several truth were manipulated here. What truth is yours?
Lowen takes the job and is invited to Verity's home, courtesy of Jeremy, to come check out his wife's luxury but messy office for ideas that may help her finish the series since Verity left a lot of notes lying about.
In Jeremy's words..."The world was her manuscript. No surface was safe."
While working, Lowen finds an autobiography of Verity that was never meant to be found nor read. In it she discovers dark and disturbing secrets Things the well loved author did to her own children, her questionable obsession with Jeremy and the real truth behind her other daughter, Harper's death, months after one of them, Chastin died.
In this autobiography, I found Verity to be vicious, callous, psychotic. It all made sense, how she was able to write six books from the villain's point of view. Lowen, however revels in it somehow, content that the brilliant Verity is a monster, because why not? She is falling in love with Jeremy and it helps to know the woman he cares for so greatly is actually a demon. Some hope for her, yes?
Colleen Hoover did a good job of twisting my mind so I will twist this review for fun. The hideous things Verity wrote in her autobiography included, trying to abort her own children with a wire hanger in the bathroom because Jeremy seemed to love the twins growing in her belly more than her, Putting off the baby monitor and leaving the twins to cry after they were born so she could attend to her writing, Choking Harper and nearly suffocating her to death for disconnected reasons. These things were dark but not as dark as what really happened when Harper drowned.
The author did a fine job of giving the characters their own lives. It wasn't rushed, I saw their personalities vividly but the book got me at the end with a letter and all I'd do is leave a fragment of it that Verity herself wrote while pretending to be sick to save herself from the rage and madness of her husband, to save her life because Jeremy had tried to murder her twice before Lowen even walked into their lives.
The ending left me unsettled. I doff my hat for Colleen Hoover's weaving powers. She's a master in her art.
I'll end this review with a fragment from the letter that ends the book, that throws we the readers into turmoil.
"I can’t explain the mind of a writer to you, Jeremy. Especially the mind of a writer who has been through more devastation than most writers combined. We’re able to separate our reality from fiction in such a way that it feels as if we live in both worlds, but never both worlds at once." – Verity.
Maybe Verity is crazy. Maybe Jeremy is insane. Maybe, just maybe, Lowen herself is the psychotic one who wants this story the way she wants it. Anything for love. Several truth were manipulated here. What truth is yours?