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New York Times BestsellerUSA Today Bestseller The Globe and Mail Bestseller Publishers Weekly Bestseller Whose truth is the lie? Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us. 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 her family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could 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.

Product Features
- Author - Colleen Hoover
- Publisher - Grand Central Publishing
- Publication Date - 10-26-2021
- Page Count - 336
- Paperback
- Adult
- Mystery and Thriller
- Product Dimensions - 5.45 H x 8.2 W x 1.15 D
- ISBN-13 - 9781538724736
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4 years ago

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Hot mess/guilty pleasure

I detected some red flags as soon as I picked up this book—it’s self-published by an author who’s previously published novels with a reputable publisher; the title screams “significant allusion!” (verity means “a fundamentally important principle or belief”), and the Acknowledgments go on for 8 pages (yes, I check the front and back matter before I dive into a book). None of these factors by itself is damning, but taken together…well, it’s a lot to overcome. And then the novel begins with Lowen (low one?) Ashleigh, the narrator, witnessing a random stranger get his skull crushed beneath the wheels of a vehicle on a New York City street. One improbable coincidence after another follows, and the next thing you know, Lowen is hired (by the man who helped her recover from witnessing the novel’s opening tragedy) to finish a series of novels written by his now presumably incapacitated wife after she drove her car into a tree in an apparent suicide attempt. Despite the modern Gothic elements that permeate the ensuing narrative (a remote mansion in the woods, the bedridden wife who might not actually be as sick as she appears, dead children, a paranoid unreliable narrator who also happens to have a history of sleepwalking, and—the pièce de résistance—a found manuscript that seems to incriminate Verity in the death of one of her children), the novel never truly gels. Perhaps it’s all the graphic s*x that Verity describes in her autobiographical manuscript that ruins the Gothic vibe. Or maybe it depends on whether you believe that “antagonistic journaling” is actually a technique that writers use for character development. Whatever the case, Verity has fulfilled my allotment of tawdry domestic thrillers for some time to come.