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Whose truth is the lie? Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Too Late and It Ends With Us.
#1 New York Times Bestseller · USA Today Bestseller · Globe and Mail Bestseller · Publishers Weekly Bestseller
Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.
Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity’s recollection of the night her family was forever altered.
Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.
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Kathleen Foxx –
A mind boggling that comes with an artful twist.
Minute by minute gets u grooved to the novel ❤️.Definitely would recommend it to others .
Marlene Rico –
“Verity” is a book that grabs you from the first page and doesn’t let go. You are hooked right from the start! 📖
We first meet Lowen, a struggling writer who gets an unexpected break when Jeremy hires her to finish his wife Verity’s book series. Verity, a successful author, is now bedridden after a tragic accident, and Jeremy is desperate to keep her legacy alive. The series must be finished and he has no other choice but to hire a silent author to help, its Lowens big break…so she thinks. 😬
Lowen then has to move into the home Jeremy and Verity share to work on the books. 🏠🖤 She soon discovers a hidden manuscript that reveals some very dark and disturbing secrets about the couples lives, how they met, and how they were when she was well. As Lowen reads more, she becomes increasingly unsettled and conflicted, she has no idea if she should share any of this with Jeremy.
The tension in “Verity” is palpable. Hoover did a phenomenal job where she incorporates thrill and suspense. Lowen’s internal struggle is compelling, and the revelations she uncovers keep you on the edge of your seat. 🤯Each twist and turn leaves you guessing and eager to find out what happens next.
This book is impossible to put down. Even when you reach the end, “Verity” lingers in your mind, leaving you wanting more. Colleen Hoover has crafted a story that is both haunting and unforgettable. If you’re looking for a book that will keep you up at night, “Verity” is the one to read. I did not want it to end 😩
JHSiess –
It’s official. If I didn’t know it before reading Verity, I am absolutely positive now: CoHo is the Queen!! This book was so different from the other books I’ve read by her and I am HERE FOR IT.
Let me just start by saying WOW. This book was wild. It kept me guessing and I was never quite sure I knew what would happen next. It completely kept me on the edge of my seat.
Although this book is primarily a thriller, I felt the romance elements added so much. It really helped set the tone and added to the creepy atmosphere.
And that ending? Just, WOW. The shock value was off the charts.
If you haven’t read this book yet, what are you waiting for?
Kait –
O livro veio exatamente como na descrição, estado de novo, recomendo muito o vendedor
Marlene Rico –
Verity opens with author Lowen Ashleigh having a very bad morning. Her mother died the previous week after a year-long battle with colon cancer. Lowen had a difficult relationship with her mother — “a direct result of my own mother being terrified of me,” she relates — but still brought her to Lowen’s apartment and cared for her during the last nine months of her life. Lowen is a sleepwalker and her mother kept her fairly secluded as a child, afraid of what Lowen might be capable of doing during one of many sleepwalking episodes. Now she has left her apartment in New York City for the first time in weeks, summoned to a meeting at her publisher’s office by her literary agent, Corey, with whom she was previously in an intimate relationship. Just as Lowen is waiting for a crosswalk light to change, a man steps into the street and is struck by a truck. Lowen is understandably shaken, and the man’s blood is splattered on her face and white shirt.
A handsome stranger escorts her into a coffee shop bathroom and literally gives her the shirt off his back. They chat briefly, and Loewn concludes that he “wants to be invisible in this city. Just like me.” After all, she moved to New York to become part of the city’s invisible millions of invisible residents. Her books have not sold well enough for her publisher to offer her another contract unless she agrees to promote them, something she has refused to do in the past. “I’m so awkward I’m afraid once my readers meet me in person, they’ll swear off my books forever,” Lowen laments. “That’s why I stay home and write. I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me.” But another contract was her last hope. She took time off from her writing career believing that her mother would leave her some money. Now, having lived off the advance she received after signing her prior contract, she has learned that she will receive nothing from her mother’s estate. And be homeless soon, unless she receives a job offer.
When Lowen arrives at her publisher’s office, she is shocked to find the man whose shirt she is wearing is attending the same meeting. He is Jeremy Crawford, husband of Verity, a very successful author who is unable to complete the series of books she was writing. Lowen is being offered a flat fee of seventy-five thousand dollars per book to write the last three volumes in the series, with the first installment due in six months. Lowen is determined to turn down the offer until Jeremy informs her that he selected her because Verity read one of Lowen’s books and it was among her favorites. She purportedly told Jeremy that they shared a similar writing style and Lowen was destined to be “the next big thing.” Verity has been catastrophically injured in a motor vehicle accident, following the deaths of both of her daughters, Chastin and Harper, leaving Jeremy to raise their young son, Crew, alone. Lowen ultimately agrees to take on the project.
Lowen makes the six-hour drive to the Crawford home in Vermont, listening to the audio version of the first book in the series en route. She is to spend time in Verity’s office, reviewing the research and notes she left there in order to assess how best to approach writing the next book. Lowen meets Crew and learns that Verity’s condition is extremely serious. She is in a virtually catatonic state — uncommunicative and unable to care for herself. Caregivers spend the day in the home, with Jeremy managing at night. Lowen soon discovers that Verity’s office lacks organization — her expansive desk is strewn with stacks from end to end with papers and files, and boxes containing more documents line the walls. Clearly, the process of sorting through it all will take much longer than Lowen originally anticipated. As she begins reading Verity’s second book, she realizes the “books are from the villain’s point of view” and she will need “time to work myself into that mindset while writing.” Jeremy claims that he has never read Verity’s books because he “didn’t like being inside her head.”
Author Colleen Hoover recounts Lowen’s story via a first-person narrative, with the story really taking off as Lowen attempts to settles into the Crawford home. She is keenly observant and inquisitive about Verity’s writing, as well as her family, and quickly finds herself attracted to Jeremy, who is still married to the incapacitated woman being cared for in an upstairs bedroom. Searching through Verity’s office, Lowen stumbles upon a manuscript entitled “So Be It.” Verity hopes it is an outline for the next book, but it is instead an autobiography drafted by Verity. Reading it is not what she has been hired to do, but she justifies her insatiable curiosity by construing her review of the manuscript as research. “I need to see how Verity’s mind works to understand her as a writer.” Soon she is absorbed in Verity’s descriptions of meeting Jeremy, the development of their relationship and the early days of their marriage, as well as her pregnancies and motherhood. The more she reads, the more frightened of Verity Lowen becomes, especially when events she observes appear to be inconsistent with what she has been told about Verity’s condition. Nonetheless, Lowen continues returning to the manuscript to better understand the Crawford family’s history, and gain insight into Jeremy and Verity’s marriage. But Lowen is playing a dangerous game. Verity’s purported autobiography is a dark and disturbing confession of Verity’s feelings, motivations, and unspeakably vile acts. Lowen believes the manuscript to be an accurate depiction of Verity’s life, and concludes that it “was written by a very disturbed woman — a woman whose house I currently inhabit.”
Hoover ramps up the tension as Lowen becomes entangled in a budding relationship with Jeremy, influenced heavily by what she is reading in the manuscript. Verity’s revelations are horrifying, and as Lowen and Jeremy grow closer, he increasingly opens up to her, sharing details of his life with Verity about which Lowen feigns ignorance. Lowen’s suspicions about the accident in which Verity was injured grow. Is Jeremy being completely honest with Lowen? Why is he willing to embark on a new relationship with Lowen when his wife, although injured, is still alive? He claims that he cannot move Verity to a care facility because Crew cannot sustain another loss. While Verity is cared for in their home, Crew can spend unlimited amounts of time at her bedside. Lowen now possesses detailed information about the deaths of Jeremy’s daughters. Were their deaths really tragic accidents? Is Crew safe?
Hoover’s characters are both fascinating and infuriating. The story is related solely from Lowen’s perspective. Her childhood was difficult because of her sleepwalking and the way it detrimentally impacted her relationship with her mother. She has achieved modest success as a writer, but because of her discomfort in social situations, her career growth has been stymied. She accepts the offer to write Verity’s next three books because she desperately needs the money, but also because it is an opportunity too good to pass up. But she is confused not only by her burgeoning attraction to Jeremy, but the incongruity between what she has been told about Verity’s accident and what transpires in the house. Of course, Lowen’s feelings and experiences are colored by the information set forth in the manuscript. Interestingly, Hoover has said that even when she depicts Lowen reading Verity’s manuscript, readers are “still not fully in Verity’s head because we’re always in Lowen’s perspective, reading something she found. When I write a book from one character’s point of view, I rarely think about the story from the other character’s perspectives. Sometimes it’s necessary for certain scenes, but with this book, it was important for me to feel the confusion and fear Lowen felt. So as the author, I had to be completely blind to what was happening from everyone else’s perspectives.” Still, as the story progresses, Hoover keeps readers guessing as to how gullible and vulnerable Lowen really is. She believes the manuscript is truthful and accurate, and that Jeremy is not the villain — if, in fact there is a villain in the Crawfords’ story. But could Lowen possibly be opportunistic, calculating, and willing to do anything to be with Jeremy?
Jeremy is equally captivating. He is handsome, charming, successful, and by all outward appearances, a family man who has sustained unimaginable losses who has been able to soldier on only because he has a young son to raise. To be fair, although Verity’s prognosis is never affirmatively established, his desire to move on with his life is understandable — Verity sustained a serious head injury which will, in all likelihood, preclude her from resuming a fully normal life. But was his meeting with Lowen on the street just before the meeting at her publisher’s office really just coincidental? Did he intend for her to find the manuscript in Verity’s office? Has he been fully aware of its contents all along? About that, Hoover says, “I’m not sure because I was never in Jeremy’s head.” In other words, readers can draw their own conclusions, based on the evidence Hoover does present.
And what about Verity? Is she selfishly conniving and evil, as the manuscript suggests? Or is she a blameless grieving mother who was tragically injured in a horrific car accident?
The manuscript provides myriad complications. Lowen debates whether she should discuss it with Jeremy. She doesn’t believe he is aware of its existence or content. He claimed he never read Verity’s books, after all. Lowen learns that Verity was injured when her vehicle hit a tree, but there were no skidmarks on the pavement. She concludes Verity “either fell asleep or she did it on purpose.” Does it matter to Lowen which scenario is accurate? What conclusion has Jeremy drawn about the cause of the accident?
Putting aside the perspective from which the story is told, no aspect of the story or the characters can be accepted at face value. Hoover includes plot twists so shocking and unnerving that Verity, originally published in 2018, continues to be one of the most-discussed psychological thrillers ever written. (There is even a Facebook discussion group devoted to the book, boasting nearly twenty-five thousand members!) The book is fast-paced, engrossing, and extremely entertaining. The story’s pace gradually accelerates with each surprising development and breath-taking revelations of the truth or, perhaps, a manipulated version of the truth. The tale careens to a jaw-dropping conclusion that will keep readers thinking, discussing, and debating Hoover’s extremely clever and nuanced tale, as well as her deliciously intriguing and morally ambiguous characters (who may prove themselves to be not as ambiguous as originally thought) for a very, very long time. Hoover says she “chose the ending because it’s frightening to me. It’s my biggest nightmare For the darkness in the worlds I create as a writer to somehow” intrude into her real life.
Thanks to Grand Central Publishing for a copy of the book.
Lyla Mae –
I ended up purchasing Verity by Colleen Hoover because it was chosen for my book club (less of a club, more of a bunch of nurses who love to read). This is my honest review of the book after reading it (don’t worry, there are NO spoilers).
The genre is like a spicy mystery (it gets naughty, but not in a fun way since the undertones are dark. If you like romance novels, this isn’t THAT kind of spicy). The writing is well done and kept me interested, maybe not HOOKED but that’s rare for me. It is mainly written from the perspective of the female lead and details her experience with finding love in the midst of another family’s mysterious tragedies.
This is one of those books where there are no true heros. You don’t fall in love with any specific character, no one is truly “good”. If you like a feel-good type of book, this isn’t going to be it. It is dark and twisted, with certain details shocking or maybe even scary.
The book twists and surprises you in a way that you won’t expect. I usually don’t like mysteries because the endings are either too predictable or so unpredictable that it isn’t believable and creates plot holes. The ending to this book was something I did NOT expect, but something that I could believe. You are left to decide how you want to interpret it, which makes this GREAT for book club discussions. I finished this book, put it down, and had to take a minute to just think and sort my thoughts/feelings.
If you like a mystery with a little bit of spice, dark undertones, good twists, and thought-provoking open-ended conclusions, I recommend reading this book! I wouldn’t say this was my favorite book of all time, but it definitely was a good, worthy read.
Hope this helps!
Daniela F. –
El libro llegó en buenas condiciones, aunque la calidad de la portada no es tan buena . La historia me pareció excelente , te mantiene atado al libro y el final te deja sorprendida. Es el primer libro que leo de la autora y para ser un thriller me dejó muy conforme
Daniela F. –
HOLY. FREAKING. HANNAH. Five stars and some fireworks for good measure. Hoover is a master at writing an evil antagonist and nailing character voice.
I hadn’t had the opportunity to read Verity until this past weekend when some Twitter friends and I agreed to read it together so we could talk about it after (and boy do I need to talk about this after!) This book was so dark and disturbing!
The first line was top-notch. Like… what an opener! It immediately draws you in and doesn’t let go. It puts you straight into the action and leaves your mind spinning, in this case after just fourteen words. Mind. Blown.
Verity is an example of a story within a story. The main character, Lowen, is an author—and don’t let that cliché fool you. This book was written astonishingly well. Lowen is hired as a co-writer to a hugely famous author, Verity Crawford, who is incapacitated and cannot finish out the remaining three of her six book deal. Lowen must get inside Verity’s head somehow so she can write the last three books as closely to her writing style and authorial voice as possible. To do that, she’s invited to stay at Verity’s house with her husband, Jeremy, and son, Crew, to go through her office and study her notes.
But Lowen finds a manuscript… an autobiography of sorts… and she learns much more about Verity than she ever thought she would—or wanted to. It’s a deeply personal and intimate account of big life events and the things that led up to them. And the more Lowen reads, the more she’s disturbed. And what’s more, she starts experiencing really creepy things around the house that make her question not only Verity’s sanity, but also her own. By the end of the story, I was blown away.
The twists at the end of this book are incredible!
By the time I was finished reading, my jaw was dropped, my eyes were bulging out of their sockets, and I just wanted to talk about it, but it was 2am! I now know what everyone else was talking about when they said this book is bone-chilling and dark. I highlighted so many lines that stuck out, and there’s one in particular in Verity’s biography that will stay with me (but I’m not going to tell you what it is!)
The character voice was strong, the line-level writing was superb, and I was thoroughly disquieted (and I mean that in the best possible way, because I love dark thrillers!)
The ending will have you questioning everything, and I absolutely love books that do that. Stories that make me think about them long after I’ve read the last word on the page.
I absolutely recommend this book to any fellow dark and disturbing thriller lovers. But be forewarned: when I say it’s disturbing… I mean it’s disturbing, especially as a mother. And as someone who lived with a sociopath for almost a decade, there are some eerily familiar feelings I experienced while reading.
Colleen Hoover is a new-to-me author, and I will not hesitate to read more of her books.
Daniela Luna –
I couldn’t put this one down. It was a great mix of crude, disgust, mystery, love and sadness. Started to worry towards the end that there would be no real twist but then it hits you head on and I’m still left questioning the actual truth. Fast paced and exceptionally well-written.