Colleen Hoover is a New York Times bestselling author of several books, although this is the only book of hers that I've read. She is also having her novel It Ends With Us made into a movie starring Blake Lively, it comes out in August of this year. This book deals with grief, medical content, abortion, cancer, a car accident and injury detail, murder, pregnancy, suicidal thoughts, violence, child abuse, death of a parent, death of a child, body shaming, physical and mental abuse, and a little vomit.
Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling author who has had to take time from her writing to care for her ailing mother. Now, her mother is dead and she is about to be evicted from her apartment, when the deal of a century comes in. Bestselling author Verity Crawford has written four books out of her seven book series, but is no longer able to finish the final three novels. Verity's publishing company and husband want Lowen to finish the series as Verity's co-writer, and Lowen will be amply compensated. Problem is, there really won't be any co-writing, Verity is unable to help in any way. Lowen agrees to stay in the Crawford home and go through Lowen's office to try to put together an idea of what Verity had in mind for the upcoming books. But as soon as Lowen arrives to the Crawford house, she gets a very uncomfortable feeling and starts to feel a bit paranoid. On top of that, she finds an unpublished autobiography that Verity has written that Lowen can't help but read. What's in it makes Lowen look at the Crawford family in a very different way.
I cannot overstate how much I disliked this book. It's really two stories in one, the story of Lowen staying in the Crawford house and the autobiography as Lowen reads it. The first story made me uncomfortable at the best of times, and the autobiography made me absolutely furious. The one thing I can say about Colleen Hoover is that by the time the autobiography got really bad, I was on the hook and wanted to know how the book ended. The characters in this book range from slightly objectionable to absolutely deplorable, with the only one I didn't actively dislike being a five-year-old boy. I thought the ending was pretty predictable and unpleasant.
I'm giving Verity by Colleen Hoover a 1.5 out of 5, only because I finished it. Spice level was a 1.75 out of 5. I know Colleen Hoover has a huge following, and I welcome all readers here, but I won't be reading more by her.
If you do want to see more from Colleen Hoover, check out her website at https://www.colleenhoover.com/
Pairs well with a plate of spaghetti and a dose of impulse control.
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