Book Review: Verity by Colleen Hoover

Verity by Colleen Hoover

Within the 336 pages of Colleen Hoover’s Verity, she conjures a world brimming with tantalizing romance and gripping descriptions. The novel drips with moments of suspense that are sprinkled skilfully throughout the content of the book. Chapter endings are exceptionally brilliant so much so that it leaves readers hanging on the edge of a cliff, salivating, hungry for more. Finishing the novel left me even more curious to catch a glimpse into the writer’s mind who has penned this clever text.

In a captivating storyscape, the book paints a picture consisting of two writers – one famous and one struggling. The struggling writer, who is also running out of money, is hit by an abrupt twist during a publishers’ meeting as she is asked to write some books for the writer who is famous. She is told that the other writer, the famous one, has slumped into coma and cannot continue her book series anymore.

 

Carrying from there, the story rolls and snakes and lurches forward into a tailspin of complex emotions like fear, terror, curiosity, romance, and sympathy. Although the writing of these books is not detailed in the story, the things that the writer discovers during the writing of these books, leaves her shocked, almost to the point of terror.

Apart from moments of suspense, elements of horror are punctuated throughout the book that initially made me wonder whether the book was just suspense or suspense-plus-horror. These elements only add a sinister touch and a wispy daze to the overall feel of the story, which is interesting.

The world Hoover’s mind has spun inside this book flutters with frissons of descriptions that range from basic to utmost eerie. Plus, the technique of story-within-story has been employed in many places, which makes the overall read more immersive.

The immersiveness of the story is further fuelled by romantic elements studded into it. As the struggling writer resides in the famous writers’ house to pore through her book-related notes, she eventually falls in love with her husband, who falls in love with her too, and together they stumble upon an unsettling reality.

The ending wraps up on a mysterious note about the characters: who they were, and what were they trying to do. It will make you think long and intense about what might have happened to these characters, as if they were alive and real humans, even though they are not. Through this novel, Hoover has cast an intelligent spell on the mind of the reader, something that makes us feel wanting to read more of it, to know more about where these characters came from in her mind, how she created them, and what happened to them long after the book ended.

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