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A review by yas_sezer
Verity by Colleen Hoover
2.75
2.75/5 i don’t think i was the target audience for this book, however it isn’t BAD, just not impactful for me.
for people new to thriller, i’d definitely recommend this book since the writing is very easy and the storyline is easy to get into and understand. there’s a small cast of characters with few locations, so there’s nothing too crazy to pay attention to. the plot twist and plot line itself are relatively simple, and not too crazy, which isn’t necessarily bad, just not for me.
the characters are all unlikeable, but this was honestly a good thing. verity carried the story with her completely manipulative, gaslighting, absurd, over the top behaviour, where i really just sat there trying to understand how on earth a woman - a PERSON- could feel that way. i have always been very understanding when it comes to mothers and fears of birth and not wanting children because i find it relatable. but honey… that is not verity at all. the extent she went to (attempted unaliving in the womb after her husband said he LOVED his kids, attempted suffocation, and outright DROWNING are to name the main actions. but this isn’t including her lack of love and care for them in general - remember her unplugging the baby monitors and blocking her ears deliberately). absolutely chaotic, but she kept it interesting.
jeremy, meh. i read the bonus chapter and to be honest, oh well. it didn’t do much for me, i still don’t hate him. i absolutely do not respect him, nor do i LIKE him, he just happens to be there. i cannot stand for cheating whatsoever in any way (magnolia parks is an exception, those characters broke my heart), so jeremy and lowen were not a couple i could support at all. he cheated the second he thought of lowen in a romantic/lustful manner. i am sorry, but you are a married man, “in sickness and in health” and according to his knowledge, his WIFE is sick at home. and he has the audacity to invite a woman he is clearly interested in, ask her to stay longer, and sleep with her under verity’s roof while she is home… i honestly can’t understand that. he was a good dad, and he was sweet, but he is a cheat and a little psychotic in his own way.
lowen, gosh i was so sick of the book being from her pov. realistically, are you seriously going to drag out this extremely dramatic and terrifying manuscript across weeks or are you going to devour it in a day? she was so insufferable with her insecurities, her constant comparisons, her justifications for frothing over jeremy and accepting him frothing over her. absolutely not. nothing about this character is able to redeem her. don’t even want to waste my time writing too long about this lady because i didn’t enjoy her point of view at all. homewrecker.
the plot twist wasn’t a twist for me. verity being alive and well was something i hoped for to begin with. i expected jeremy to have a ‘bad’ role although now think that would’ve been a little too predictable. if anything, this ending is fine, the execution is just not for me. it isn’t complex or as dramatic as i would’ve hoped and it fell flat. also, manuscript vs letter isn’t even a competition for me. team manuscript all the way. that letter is just another desperate attempt at redemption from an obsessed psychopathic lady who has dug herself a deep grave, trying to reach for any olive branch possible. i don’t see how anyone can believe a word from that letter. it was written after jeremy was clearly infatuated by lowen, slept with her, losing care for verity, lowen has the manuscript and has most likely read the entire thing and it’s only a matter of time before jeremy knows, and lowen caught her staring at her multiple times. of course she’s going to try and twist it around to save her ass. pls, it’s not even a question.
overall, felt like a typical colleen read. not bad, not good. just meh. i had a fun experience while reading but am probably going to forget about this book and never think about it unless others want to discuss it. onto the next!
for people new to thriller, i’d definitely recommend this book since the writing is very easy and the storyline is easy to get into and understand. there’s a small cast of characters with few locations, so there’s nothing too crazy to pay attention to. the plot twist and plot line itself are relatively simple, and not too crazy, which isn’t necessarily bad, just not for me.
the characters are all unlikeable, but this was honestly a good thing. verity carried the story with her completely manipulative, gaslighting, absurd, over the top behaviour, where i really just sat there trying to understand how on earth a woman - a PERSON- could feel that way. i have always been very understanding when it comes to mothers and fears of birth and not wanting children because i find it relatable. but honey… that is not verity at all. the extent she went to (attempted unaliving in the womb after her husband said he LOVED his kids, attempted suffocation, and outright DROWNING are to name the main actions. but this isn’t including her lack of love and care for them in general - remember her unplugging the baby monitors and blocking her ears deliberately). absolutely chaotic, but she kept it interesting.
jeremy, meh. i read the bonus chapter and to be honest, oh well. it didn’t do much for me, i still don’t hate him. i absolutely do not respect him, nor do i LIKE him, he just happens to be there. i cannot stand for cheating whatsoever in any way (magnolia parks is an exception, those characters broke my heart), so jeremy and lowen were not a couple i could support at all. he cheated the second he thought of lowen in a romantic/lustful manner. i am sorry, but you are a married man, “in sickness and in health” and according to his knowledge, his WIFE is sick at home. and he has the audacity to invite a woman he is clearly interested in, ask her to stay longer, and sleep with her under verity’s roof while she is home… i honestly can’t understand that. he was a good dad, and he was sweet, but he is a cheat and a little psychotic in his own way.
lowen, gosh i was so sick of the book being from her pov. realistically, are you seriously going to drag out this extremely dramatic and terrifying manuscript across weeks or are you going to devour it in a day? she was so insufferable with her insecurities, her constant comparisons, her justifications for frothing over jeremy and accepting him frothing over her. absolutely not. nothing about this character is able to redeem her. don’t even want to waste my time writing too long about this lady because i didn’t enjoy her point of view at all. homewrecker.
the plot twist wasn’t a twist for me. verity being alive and well was something i hoped for to begin with. i expected jeremy to have a ‘bad’ role although now think that would’ve been a little too predictable. if anything, this ending is fine, the execution is just not for me. it isn’t complex or as dramatic as i would’ve hoped and it fell flat. also, manuscript vs letter isn’t even a competition for me. team manuscript all the way. that letter is just another desperate attempt at redemption from an obsessed psychopathic lady who has dug herself a deep grave, trying to reach for any olive branch possible. i don’t see how anyone can believe a word from that letter. it was written after jeremy was clearly infatuated by lowen, slept with her, losing care for verity, lowen has the manuscript and has most likely read the entire thing and it’s only a matter of time before jeremy knows, and lowen caught her staring at her multiple times. of course she’s going to try and twist it around to save her ass. pls, it’s not even a question.
overall, felt like a typical colleen read. not bad, not good. just meh. i had a fun experience while reading but am probably going to forget about this book and never think about it unless others want to discuss it. onto the next!