Book Review: Verity

 

Verity 

Colleen Hoover

4/5

When Verity, the author of a very popular mystery series, is incapacitated and unable to finish her books, Lowen is hired to step in and finish it out. She goes to stay with Verity's husband, Jeremy, and their son in order to get the information necessary. Lowen finds Verity's autobiography and from that point on it's just one weird thing after another with the truth being far from obvious. 

If you like liking the characters in a book, like you like rooting for them, this probably isn't the book for you. If you like psychological thrillers that have you questioning the truth the entire time, this would be the perfect read. The first fourth was boring but it really started picking up towards the middle and all the way through the end. The things that were written were constantly surprising me, superseding every previous event and just getting more bizarre and aggravating. Without spoiling anything all I can say is that it'll keep you on the edge of your seat. 

The dialogue was a bit stilted at points. I think that the interactions between the living characters were cut in favor of the flashbacks to the past. It was that same thing where way too much was revealed in dialogue in the first interaction just because one protagonist knew exactly the right questions to ask the other protagonist. 

Still though, would definitely recommend for fans of mysteries and thrillers. You may not be completely satisfied at the end but you'll definitely enjoy all the twists and turns that you hit along the way.