Verity by Colleen Hoover
Verity Crawford is one of the most popular authors at the moment and when she is unable to complete the series within her contract, lesser known author Lowen is asked to ghost write with Verity. Lowen Ashleigh is invited to the Crawford family home in Vermont to go through Verity’s office and learn about how her mind works.
For me, this was a very bingeable suspense thriller that provided ample distraction in a time that I needed a distraction. I just ate up all of the drama.
I don’t think I would give this as great of a review as those I’ve heard – personally I don’t think it’s worth ranting and raving over. But it was a good book, though I did find Lowen reading the memoir and her time in the house get a little repetitive and boring.
Now, I’m wondering about the whole debate or controversy (whatever you’d like to call it) about Colleen Hoover being a “problematic author.” Personally, I don’t see any problems. I think it’s just about what people enjoy in a book and there are obviously some very opinionated people when it comes to well…anything.
I have yet to read any reviews about Verity. Ohh, I definitely will and I am quite excited to see all the snowflake reviews. My best guess on what might be the main CoHo problem (at least with this book, who knows, maybe some of her other work is even more problematic *eye roll*) is the content. My thoughts were the following about halfway through:
1. It’s fiction.
2. She’s writing about the fucked up human experience that we all have – having crazy fucked up thoughts. I’ve had them. We’ve all had them. And if anyone says they haven’t had thoughts like that before is lying. – there’s actually a problem with things like this if the person is acting out what is being written. But as with any big names or celebrities today, we won’t ever know what’s actually going on in their lives.
Read on.
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