Book Review: Verity by Colleen Hoover

Verity
by Colleen Hoover (Hoover)

You are waiting for the light to change to cross the street. A man in front of you steps off the curb and gets hit by a truck. You hear the crack of his skull. You are plastered with his blood. What a way to start a day—and a book. In the suspense novel Verity by Colleen Hoover, it only gets creepier from there.

 

Author Lowen Ashleigh is struggling. Her live-in mother just passed away from cancer and left her with bills. She is being evicted from her apartment. She is all alone and needs an income. Her literary agent contacts her with an opportunity. Bestselling author Verity Crawford was injured and is no longer able to finish her six-book series. Her husband Jeremy Crawford is looking for someone to co-write the remaining novels. If she accepts the offer, Lowen is invited to visit the Crawford home, look through Verity’s notes, read her books, and study her outlines. In exchange Lowen will be financially set and her career will get a huge boost. Sounds like a much needed deliverance.

 

As you might expect, Lowen discovers the situation is not what it seems. The Crawford house is overwhelmed with tragedy. Both of the young Crawford daughters passed away from accidents. And since her automobile accident, Verity is an unspeaking and unresponsive shell of herself, with a day-time nurse who cares for her every need.

 

As Lowen pages through Verity’s papers, she discovers an autobiography with some shocking revelations. Is everything that has happened to the Crawfords a coincidence, or is there something sinister at work? Is everyone who they seem?

 

Verity is a page-turner, sprinkled with Hoover’s racy romance, that will have you sprinting to the end of the book to discover the shocking conclusion.

 

(If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, or The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides.)

 

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Recommended by Cindy K.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service

 

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