Book Recommendation: Verity by Colleen Hoover

You know a book is good when it can still mess with your emotions throughout a second reading. Verity is one of my favorite books of all time. It gets to me in a way that few novels ever have, and I love that about it.

The first time I read Verity was February 2020, and I recall reading a review on Goodreads that stated, “I read this months ago, and I can’t stop thinking about it.” That’s it; that’s all I needed to know about the book, that it’s the kind of story that hooks you and then lives rent-free in your head long after reading.

I wasn’t sure it would happen to me like it had with that reviewer, but it did. I thought about it all of 2020, the mystery of it, the wonder, the intrigue. And then I read Verity again in early 2021, a little over a year after my first read. I found myself entranced. Obsessed. I could remember so much of the book but not the intimate details, and I needed to know everything as quickly as possible. So I read and I read, all the way up until the end where I found myself once again feeling a fun combination of satisfaction and curiosity — which seems to be just the way Colleen Hoover intended.

If you haven’t read this book, please do. It’s a wild ride.