So, here I am with another Colleen Hoover review – spoiler alert – there will be another one next week, too. I can’t help myself! I can say that Verity differed greatly from the other books of hers that I’ve read, and I liked it – a lot. I loved the mystery aspect of it.

The book starts off with a pretty gruesome scene. Lowen is on her way to meet with her agent and a publishing company when she witnesses a horrific accident where a man falls and is run over by a truck. She gets splattered with blood, and a man ends up giving her his shirt to wear. She soon finds out that the man who gave her his shirt is Jeremy Crawford, the husband of famed author Verity Crawford – one of the people she was supposed to meet with. Verity was recently in an accident that has left her comatose and unable to complete the book series and Jeremy and Verity’s publishers want Lowen to write the rest of the books in the series for her. Lowen is a published author and her books were only mildly successful, mostly because Lowen is shy and awkward and isn’t into putting herself out there on social media, and the thought of going on tour with her book is too overwhelming. She is skittish at first, but the money they are offering her is too good to pass up. Her mother just died, she is being evicted from her apartment and she needs money to rent a new place – so she agrees.

Lowen heads to the Crawford home to go through outlines and notes that Verity had put together before the accident. She only means to stay there a few days, but her stay ends up being extended – mostly because she hasn’t been able to finish going through all the notes and outlines because she found an autobiography that Verity had written – one that holds some shocking secrets. The autobiography ha dbeen hidden, and Lowen is pretty sure no one has read it. She also knows that she probably shouldn’t be reading it either, but it’s pretty juice – and very shocking. She can’t help herself. So here we have Lowen, living in a house with Verity’s husband and her young son while Verity lays comatose in a room upstairs.

The autobiography does not paint Verity in a good light AT ALL, and the more Lowen reads, the more she wonders if Verity is really comatose or if she’s faking it. Lowen also begins to fall for Jeremy and sparks fly between them, but is Lowen really safe in this house? Is Verity really the monster the autobiography makes her out to be? Did she really write this (I honestly thought this a few times because I couldn’t imagine ever admitting even on paper that I’d done some of the things she claimed to do.) Is she really comatose, or does she have something bigger up her sleeve and will Lowen survive?

This book had several twists and turns and what I loved the most about it is the fact that you never really knew what was going on – it had me guessing to the very end. There were so many questionable characters here and I LOVED it. After I finished the book, a friend told me that a special hardcover edition of the book was released and it included an extra chapter. I was hesitant to read it at first because I kind of like how the book ended, but then I caved out of curiosity and holy shit, is it a shocker! I won’t go into it, but I really wish they’d have included it in all versions of the book rather than just the special hardcover edition. If you can get your hands on it, you should definitely read it.

If you are a Colleen Hoover fan or if you love a good mystery with questionable characters, then you should definitely check this one out.