Verity - Colleen Hoover

So I've been apprehensive about reading anything about Hoover for a long time now.

I've heard some really mixed opinions about her writing style and the stories themselves so naturally I never picked one up even after being recommended multiple times by one of my closest friends.

After some persuasions from her, I decided to by the book secondhand, in case I really did end up not liking it but man was I wrong.

Basically 80 pages into the book I released I would be shattered by the end and have a new favorite read of 2022.

Verity follows Lowen Ashleigh a struggling writer who gets a job offer she can not say no to. Soon she realizes that something is up with the people that hired her but she's to involved to just leave.

Ok so Spoilers Ahead.

So Lowen our main protagonist meet Jeremy Crawford, the person who ends up hiring her, only 3 pages in as Lowen gets involved with an nasty car accident.

We learn a lot about her on the first few pages.

She's someone that likes to be overlooked, not being paid attention to, someone that blends in.

Her first Novel, Open Ended, lands her the job that would later change her in more than one way.

Jeremy is the husband of famous writer Verity Crawford.

Her series , The Noble Virtues, just short of the 3 last remaining books, that she is. unable to write herself after being left in car accident that left her in an vegetative state, needs a new writer.

After being told that Verity liked her book and their writing styles being similar, she accepts the offer with the conditions of half a million dollars and no press.

Lowen ends up staying at the Crawford residence Jeremy, their son Crew and Verity, who is attended to by a personal nurse.

While going through Verity's office looking for a guid or draft for the last three books, Lowen discovers a manuscript written by Verity.

Ridden by curiosity Lowen begins reading and soon realizes that Verity was hiding a dark secret.

From then on Lowen is deeply fascinated with Verity's life as described in the pages.

From her meeting Jeremy to them involuntarily started a family of 4 and the dark ending that impacted the family.

Pretty early on we hear Jeremy use the word "Chronics", meaning their family prone to chronic tragedy,

While reading the autobiography, that sentence makes sense.

The first daughter Chastin dies while at an sleepover due to an allergic reaction to peanuts.

Verity who never quite connected with her children suspects Harper, who she had a dream about, that she would, later in life harm Chastin.

Verity goes on about how much resents Harper and decides she has enough and ends up causing a boating accident that kills Harper six months after Chastin.

Jeremy gets suspicious due to the circumstances regarding the accident and ends up finding the manuscript that Verity was very determined for him not to find.

He looses control and stages a car accident that, as we know, leave Verity with serious injuries.

The further down Lowen gets into the story, the more she resents Verity. She can't believe she would do such things to her kids and her husband.

During the course of the book suspicious behavior regarding Verity takes place and Lowen starts suspecting she is faking be unresponsive.

After an incident that makes Lowen see Verity moves out of the bed by her self, Lowen has enough and decides to give the manuscript to Jeremy who in blind rage ends up killing Verity once for all after realizing she's been faking her impairment all this time.

A few months go by Jeremy and Lowen, who spark up a romance during the course of the book, start a new life.

While gathering things from Verity's, now empty bedroom, Lowen finds a Letter addressed to Jeremy.

In said letter Verity explains and apologizes to him.

She says the manuscript was a writing exercise practicing writing like a villain, as that what her book series is about.

She explains that she never intended him to read it as it makes a look like a heartless monster and Jeremy has no clue how a writers mind works and she won't explain in to him.

She pleades with him and mentiones how sad she was he would truly believe she woukd be capable of such things as described in the manuscript.

Lowen shocked and startled gets rid of the letter and we are left deciding for ourselves what version of Verity was truly her.

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This book had so many shocking moments that gave me goosebumps. I kept feeling watched like things were happening behind my back when I wasn't looking.

Personally I'm Team Manuscript. There is just now way Verity was able to write these horrific things about her kids and it not being true.

It seems like Verity wanted to use the Letter to manipulate Jeremy not to involve the police.

So in conclusion I loved this book a whole lot more than I'd ever imagine and I'll probably come back to I'm in the future.

Rating

Character : 4,5/5

Writing:4,5/5

Plot:5/5

Overall:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️