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OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD - THE NO.1 BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION, FROM THE AUTHOR OF IT ENDS WITH US Are you ready to stay up all night? Rebecca meets Gone Girl in this shocking, unpredictable thriller with a twist that will leave you reeling . . . 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 their family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would 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 . . . If you loved Verity, don't miss the special collector's edition hardback coming this autumn, with a gold cover plus an exclusive extra chapter and letter from Colleen. Available to pre-order now. 400,000 READERS HAVE ALREADY GIVEN VERITY FIVE STARS 'One of the best thrillers I have ever read' 'Powerful, mind- blowing and emotional' 'The plot twists and that ending came out of nowhere' 'There are no words. Bravo' 'Dark, creepy, and one hundred per cent original' 'I NEEDED to know how this was going to end' 'Left me completely speechless' VERITY was a No.1 Kindle bestseller on 18.03.22 Read more
Publisher : HACHETTE INTL
Publication date : January 20, 2022
Edition : International Edition
Language : English
Print length : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 1408726602
ISBN-13 : 00
Item Weight : 8.3 ounces
Dimensions : 4.96 x 1.02 x 7.72 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #528,026 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Psychological Thrillers (Books) #1 in Suspense Thrillers #1,042 in Genre Literature & Fiction
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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.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2022 by JHSiess
I’m going to very honest, no spoilers ahead of course. I read “It ends with us” and was pretty disappointed and just felt like I wasted my time, and was just built up only to be partially let down. The builders were great but it just felt like I was going nowhere SLOW. It was a decent one and done but I would never recommend it as it is just flat out overhyped. I decided to give COHO one last chance so I ordered this book and MAN was my freaking mind blown. I didn’t want to like this book at all nor did I trust that the outcome of the builds would deliver. I was so sure this was just another one of her hyped up books that was not going to be worth the few hours that it took to read this novel but hey man, when you’re wrong, you’re just WRONG. I’ll be the first to admit, please forgive me Coho 🤣 Calling this book a novel is an understatement, this book was a MASTERPIECE I tell you. There were sooooo many instances during my read that I literally could not believe my eyes. I’m talking horror vibes type shit. It was such an adventure with a twist that you’ll NEVER be able to guess. Like in a million years. What came off to me as something that’ll be predictable as they come, turned into a ride of a lifetime… semi-unwillingly I must add. The enticement and suspense will be what drags you through the last parts of the book because at around that point, the graphic scenes are pretty disturbing and make it a bit hard to read but I won’t complain because COHO DID WTF SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO DO!!!! 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾
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Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2022 by Katherine Williams
This is my first Colleen Hoover book, and with all the hype surrounding this author, I will admit I was expecting a lot. I wanted to read “Verity” mostly because it’s a romantic thriller and I wanted to read something that was meant to be a bit unsettling. And the premise of “Verity” is definitely that! This book very much has “Gone Girl” and “Jane Eyre” vibes where you have a relatively unknown author coming in to finish a very successful author’s series. Verity cannot finish her series being confined to a near vegetative state in her home, so never one to let a good series go to waste, her publishers bring in Lowen to finish out the series. Lowen is a thriller writer herself, so that’s kind of the justification for her being qualified to take over Verity’s work, who writes her books from the villains POV. As Lowen tries to figure out how to write this series, she stumbles across Verity’s autobiography and uncovers not just the depth of this family’s tragedy, but how deranged this successful author is, all while falling in love with Verity’s husband. There are definitely some creepy elements but ultimately, the longer I sat with this book and thought about it, the more I disliked both the story and the way it was written. This book had moments of addictive, popcorn eating “I have to know what happens next” places, I will give the author that. I really did finish this book rather quickly. It’s easy to read but it’s also incredibly upsetting if child abuse and death is something you find triggering. Normally I’m ok with that (sounds weird, I know) but I’m currently pregnant so some things got to me more than I expected when reading this. Either way, the author does set up just how psychotic Verity is and Lowen is justifiably terrified to be in the same house as this woman. The creepiness and thriller aspect of the story all revolve around Verity and her secrets, but that’s also where the book falls apart for me, too. This book is a thriller, but only because every character functions without logic. In order for Verity to do all the things she does, medical professionals would have to be in on it, helping her out. Or would be aware of the issues and bring them up with child services. Failing all that, Lowen never once tells Jeremy anything, and probably wouldn’t have either except she suddenly is worried about losing this married man. I’m not even going to go into how bland Jeremy is as a character, even though he has these two women utterly obsessed with him, but the romantic elements were just… boring. I don’t buy for a second that Jeremy is THAT good in bed for these women to do or feel half of what they claim to for this wooden board of a human. I can suspend a lot of disbelief, but I can do that with fantasy and science fiction, not contemporary thrillers. There were a lot of unnecessary elements to the book to make the story “shocking” (that opening chapter where we first meet Lowen) or unsettling, where you are supposed to question who the innocent party is here. But none of that ever felt big enough, or maybe fooled me into thinking that I needed to watch anyone but Verity. Which brings me to the “twist.” 1. It wasn’t really a twist? 2. The ending is some of the laziest writing I think I’ve seen a thriller do in a very long time. There was so much set up around what Verity was or wasn’t doing and it never got the pay off it deserved. That aside, the ending was such a cop out to what the reader was experiencing that it honestly had me rolling my eyes right out of my head. The last chapter is supposed to make you question everything, except that, again, it relies on all logic being thrown out for you to really accept that. I genuinely think that the author just tried too hard to make a really scandalous twist but instead only wrote a halfhearted rug pull that just annoyed me at the end of the day. So you have all that, plus the very bland characters and love story, with the only thing saving this book for me being those occasional addictive chapters, but that’s only enough for me to give this book 2 stars. I don’t know if that means that this author is just not one for me, but this book certainly wasn’t. How disappointing…
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Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2022 by Chelscey