VERITY by Colleen Hoover is literally the WORST book ever written
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- Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2024
- nothing has made me feel rage quite like reading this book. literally what is this colleen!!
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basically I got so worked up over how stupid the end of the book is that I forgot to explain a few things lol
Jeremy is actually the one who drove Verity into the tree and then HE wrote the last two lines of the memoir
The reason verity faked being in a coma was so that she could kidnap crew and escape Jeremy?
I’ve heard whisperings of some bonus chapters 👀 I may or may not be checking them out
@@ainsleesbookclub YO WHAT
for me it's the way we find out about all of that and lowen still has the gall to go "well but even if verity wasn't evil he was just being a good father!!" about literal murder
Yes there is a bonus epilogue. Savvy Writes Books made a great video about it
reading god awful books "for the vibes" is one of my favorite pastimes
reading bad books for the vibes is an important part of my personality i fear
naming your child after the place they were conceived is DIABOLICAL
@@aurorarose6678 imagine being all hey Hayfield! Or hi Black Sabbath Bathroom or Yo, King Sized Bed, go do your homework now!
Bryce Dallas Howard: 😢
to be fair if its a city like florence or venice it sounds nice but otherwise...
to be fair, as a camp counselor, five-year-olds ABSOLUTELY have the capacity to be assholes lmao. they are old enough to think they're smarter than you and not old enough to be normal about it
hum, so 🤓☝️ psychologically speaking, children do not have the capacity to be assholes because childhood is the time for personality formation and they understand and see things differently than teenagers, for example. they may behave naughty, but this is not definitive for the type of person they will become in the future. they have the ability to think they are smarter, but they don't have the ability to understand the whole picture because they are in the process of learning how the world works (sorry for my bad english)
@@larissardsPsychologically speaking, children do have the capability to be assholes. They're still in the process of personality formation and they may form assholish traits. Just because it is not entirely indicative of what they will be in the future, does not mean that you can't call it asshole behavior. That's like saying kids can't be bullies because they're forming themselves and they may not be bullies in the future.
Worked at a daycare SPECIFICALLY with 5yo age group. They can be assholes, but it’s usually a result of an outside stressor that causes them to lash out. So they themselves are t assholes but they can act like them
The Colleen Hoover urge to make the female main character pregnant for no reason
like its gotta be a breeding kink atp
Crew is the biggest victim in this situation😭
not gonna lie that boy is gonna be so messed up when he grows up, he could be the protagonist of another book of CH
Bro harper got abused and murdered by her mum????
@@gggthsbgasp you're right that is a CH love interest tragic backstory
@@nospoonfulofmayonnaiseformebut that was all fake. It was just a writing exercise. It never really happened
@@annabarwo3544 oh I suppose you're right. But she still died
What I would love to know is if the nurse who was taking care of verity actually knew all along because WHAT DO U MEAN THIS MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL DIDNT REALIZE THIS WOMAN WAS PERFECTLY FINE?? (also the part where the nurse was kinda rude to lowen because she was getting too close to Jeremy like maybe she was in on verity's plan?)
that's always the problem with fake diagnosis. it requires someone in the medical field being in on it
I am so frustrated that the twist to the twist wasn't that Jeremy wrote the memoir and was just an insane murderer looking for a way to kill his wife who he had been terrorizing after killing his daughters. So then when she found the letter it would have explained everything about Jeremy being an insane murderer. That would have been so much more satisfying.
HELP FR I THOUGHT THE SAME😭🙏
I heard that Colleen published a special edition where it is revealed Jeremy is a crazy murderer😅💀
I was waiting the whole book for this to be the twist and was let down 🙃
Saw the notification and KNEW IMMEDIATELY this was exactly what the world needed 🙏🙏🙏
i can't get over how none of the adults in this book are good people
like the kids get a pass from anything because they're CHILDREN but the adults are just all awful 😭
I will never grow tired of Hoover books. They are all so unintentionally unhinged it's crazy. The bonus chapter makes the whole story even worse. Jeremy DROWNS a woman in the ocean because he is paranoid she will find out he killed his wife. Also Hoover said in an interview that the letter from Verity is fake and she is actually this evil person from the manuscript. We are supposed to root for Jeremy because he killed his comically evil wife. It's so bad it's funny.
Nah I refuse. I'm on verity's side
6:11 okay but my Kia Soul turns on a dime and I’ve had it for 7 years and it’s SO recognizable in a parking lot that’s full of cars that all look the same, come at me I’ll fight 😭
me with my 2005 honda element 😭😭 everytime i go anywhere in anyone else's car im like WHO STOLE THE CAR bc i cant find it immediately when we go to leave
and I'll argue that a Kia Soul doesn't have a big blind spot. I've driven a lot of different vehicle types and driving a Kia Soul with all those windows helps me see everything. I'll fight on your side when defending the Soul
Catatonic is the word you were looking for.
I was thinking locked-in syndrome
reading chronically straight books ✨for the vibes✨
OMG I remember submitting this book on your recommendations months ago and never thought you would read it. Idk if you actually saw it or not, but I am SO HAPPY you get to experience this trauma too. Your commentary always is so real and I love it! Keep doing what you're doing
Hahahaha
But that's not the end. Later Colleen Hoover wrote new chapters that are released in select books and they make the whole of Verity EVEN WORSE.
NO THERES NO WAY
. Way!
Please please read the bonus chapters!
you HAVE to read them omg
You should read the bonus chapter! It's not that it'll make the book any better but it shows that Jeremy is a horrible person! That's the reason I believe in the letter more
i had a years long reading slump & the first book i read to get me out of it was this one. i saw copies everywhere, i knew nothing about colleen hoover, so i got it. i read it & was so outraged by the ending that i kind of got back into reading to prove to myself that books were still good & I didn’t love reading my entire life for no reason 😭
Kind of a slay tbh
love the idea of getting back into reading out of spite
This is the only good thing I ever heart about this book.
Also it is always nice to meet people, who got out of a reading slump and are into it again. Have a nice day.
I desperately wish somebody did a good job with the premise of the book: The whole mysterious author is a coma or dead and main character must now write the rest of the books
because I'm an incredibly big fan of thriller/ horror type things where the main characters slowly gets more and more sucked into something or a group of people that they really should not be getting involved with and it gets more complicated and more eerie
id also like to die on the kia soul hate hill, LIKE JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE A SQUARE CAR DOESNT MAKE IT OKAY TO DRIVE 2 MPH IN A 65.
This is CRACKING ME UP😂😂😂😂😂
6:03 the Kia rant is hilarious! cars used to all be flat panel (square) before they got rounded out for reasons like wind resistance. I love the trend of square cars coming back like the Jimny because I think the concept of driving round in a lil box is cute, i want one so bad 😂
Just don't get the Kia Soul ... there are real idiot car thieves out there that think that *all* Kia Souls can be stolen as easily as in that stupid TikTok awhile back. Last year, my youngest son was victimized *twice* ... neither time were the thieves able to take his car (it has the immobilizer that was missing in the years that were so easily stolen before the recall). But they tore the crap out of the inside, broke a window and glass is *still* falling out of the door every time it gets opened/shut. Outside what insurance covered, between the two events, he was out of pocket $1200 *and* to add to the insult, his insurance went up $30/month.
The Jimny is an absolute treasure. I get so absolutely happy whenever I see one.
I hope that letter at the end was her trying to do a fast one to get the MC in trouble instead of it being the truth....and then the horror would always be MC wondering if it was true or not.
I want a sequel but it needs to be more ridiculous. Like the baby says "Redrum" and recites the letter while it's head spins in circles. It could be fun.
If your horror is so ridiculous it becomes funny, lean into that. Grimdark is kinda funny because of how silly it gets.
Why are her books always almost something interesting with the worst character names?
I saw in other reviews that Colleen Hoover put out a statement on her website saying the canon ending was that the letter at the end was fake.
@@victrosianoooo
@@victrosia I'm sorry, but it's pretty bad she had to spell it out. There's a hundred different ways she could have written it to make the reader question it. Ugh...
I don’t know who Amelia is, and at this point I’m too afraid to ask.
Same
i feel like im missing out on an inside joke WHOS AMELIA???😭
Isn’t there a version with a bonus chapter where Jeremy kills another woman or did i dream that??
Apparently there is
Yes there is!! It's revealed that like he'd known about the existence of the manuscript all along and had orchestrated Verity's accident and was keeping her alive out of spite 🤌 it's such a leap, truly unhinged
All these authors use "petrichor" because it's from doctor who. There's a scene where they are repeating "petrichor - the smell of dust after it rains" and a bunch of people thought it sounded very fancy haha
It is a tasty word
idk if this is the exclusive reason for it, “petrichor” has often found its way into lists of “interesting” or “strange” words, even long before the dw scene!!! as a weird little hyperlexic kid i would look up lists of interesting words and they would very frequently have “petrichor” on them. it is interesting tho that it became a word that people used because it was a bit old-fashioned and felt quite rare, and now it is much less so Because of how often people use it!!!
@@aurorarose6678I am currently a weird little hyperlexic kid lol I have a list going of maybe 700-800 words going from the last few months of collecting, I'm trying to upload as many as possible into my brain
I never seen that episode and I picked it up from the internet and older books
@@KitKat-pz9hpyeah its a tumblr word if that makes sense
Ma'am please, its not like i want this peanut allergy😭
Yeah! Like sorry I have a problem with my immune system? What am I supposed to do about it
Grow up? Stop being allergic? Hope this helps 🥰
@@ainsleesbookcluboh thanks! that’s so helpful. sorry i’ve had to watch my mother almost choke to death in front of me because people like you don’t take adult peanut allergies seriously and we can barely afford an epi pen to share between the two of us. i genuinely really like your content but this comes off so callous and mean spirited that i don’t know if i can watch anymore.
@@siennac1423yeah, i’m with you. i was really loving her content but this is the type of mentality that actually leads to some people dying bc of the way it trivializes a life threatening condition. i’ve genuinely had to stop watching the video and unsubscribe bc of her attitude
@@siennac1423 dude I have a peanut allergy too and even I could tell it was a fucking joke
I drive a Kia Soul and I feel so called out 😆 To be fair, it was literally the cheapest car on the whole lot and my financial options were nil! I hate that car
pausing in the middle of a summary to search up what a word you're using means is so real, I love
7:10 as someone who works with children who has been bullied to the point of tears by a 5 year old for the past 2 months… yes children can be assholes.
i feel like with some (A LOT OF) workshopping -and a better writer- verity's manuscript on its own COULD be a good book, like they could even get meta with the whole fake writer thing and list the book's author as verity crawford, that would be kinda cool.
what a delicious gift for a friday niiiiight!!! thank you
It’s fun watching this right after reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Colleen Hoover could NEVER reach Shirley Jackson’s level of paranoid gothic horror
When you said there’s a time skip at the end and Lowen is pregnant now, istg I thought the twist was gonna be that she has a dream in the new house about her kids killing each other
Frankly this is the ONLY Colleen Hoover book that I find in any way interesting and honestly CoHo missed her calling. If she just made all her romance books thrillers instead where the abusive LIs aren't heroes but are in fact the villains and the protag needs to escape them, they would all be so much better.
That's how I feel about Stephanie Meyer. She writes the more horror parts of Twilight weirdly really well and might have written something actually decent if she did more of a gothic horror thing.
From what I read of Colleen Hoover I always thought she should lean into the thriller/horror side of her writing so I am glad she is doing that and hope she continues but holy shit what a terrible ending
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS every day I wake up and seethe that this book is out there. it does unimaginable damage to my mental health
I have been eating good today with deep dives into crap books - first Lexi Newlynova and now you😌
SAME I came right from lexi's vid
WE LOVE LEXI
If you want to remain in the Verity mindset, there's an extra epilogue that isn't in the older versions I believe? It's actually quite long (half the length of the actual book I think? so just. an extra short story) and... well. Things sure happen in it.
this has driven me crazy for so long there was literally not a target in existence in vermont when this book came out! what fucking target were they at???
Oh my god stop it you’re so right
as a former owner of a kia soul: yes i did know i looked stupid in my little toaster. Did not expect this call out at 6:30 on a Friday but here we are ❤
it's me n my little green toaster against the world
It's crazy how she's just in their house, living as the mother and wife, without WRITING THE BOOKS! She is there for the books and not for her to be a part of the family. How is everyone in the book forgetting that?
I’ll never stop saying one of the weirdest things I’ve read is a woman biting the headboard so hard it made teeth marks during a love scene (Lowen and Verity)
WOAH I’m early for this channel??? MORE COLLEEN HATE??? My favorite thingd
*Colleen Hoover Books As Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Songs*
Verity - After Everything You Made Me Do (That You Didn't Ask For)
All Your Perfects - We'll Never Have Problems Again
It Ends With Us - Sex With A Stranger
November 9 - Hello, Nice To Meet You
Ugly Love - I Love My Daughter (But Not In A Creepy Way)
Without Merit - Maybe She’s Not Such A Heinous Bitch After All
Layla - I Hate Everything But You
Too Late - Let’s Generalise About Men
Reminders Of Him - I’m The Villain In My Own Story
oh my god this is the best thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life ever thank you for your service
@@ainsleesbookclub you're so sweet, love you
LETS GO your uploads are giving me life miss girl
Omg two uploads in one month thank you for blessing us
7:55 the word is catatonic if you haven't already been answered
34:40 Amy Pond / Doctor Who really brought that word (petrichor) back into the zeitgeist. I assume the Love Hypothesis was for that reason. I lowkey assume CoHo used it in Verity, aspiring to a level of skilled pretentiousness in her writing her skills can't reach.
girl i just took a final exam and this is the level of brain rot i need. thank u x
My thing is why tf would the kid bite the knife if the story was all made up. Like he said that his mom told him to not tell and all that wtf
6:00 My husband was stuck with a kia soul for a work trip and ever since I have been subjected to a, "who tf decided square cars were a good idea," rant every time we see one on the road.
im also fascinated by colleen to the point where i saw a sequel book of hers, to a book ive never even heard of mind you, and took it home. i plan to read it and make some crazy lore for the first book as a fun side exercise
girl ive been GOING THOUGH IT with exams, this is the perfect break for me
“She’s playing house with this grieving family” made me choke
Oh 5 year olds absolutely have the capacity to be assholes. Age don't matter, my 2 year old cousin is a menace
Spoilers for the video
Why did the wife fake being Paralyzed? Like if she was fine and the "memoir" wasn't real why pretend?
Okay wait but if Verity isn't actually evil, why did she fake her coma? What did she get from that? Also why didn't she just tell Jeremy that the Manuscript was fake??
love the way your mind works thank you for existing and reading horrible books i wouldnt wanna hear anyone talking about but you 🙏
unfortunately petrichor was big on tumblr a while ago and I simply have to assume these authors grabbed it from there :(
TWO videos in one month??? Ainslee is spoiling us
genuinely made a goodreads account for the first time in my life just to leave this garbage book a 1 star. the vilification of women who might have post partum depression is NOT it, colleen babe
screamed when I saw the upload ty queen
As someone who has worked with kids for a decade, they very much have the capacity to be little assholes, especially 5 year olds. 😅 But they're literally children so it's ok!
YES I HAVE BEEN HOPING FOR THIS VIDEO
Omg girl you are in your grinding era😍😍😍 really enjoy watching your videos
There was some dude in prison who faked being paralyzed and successfully escaped so I guess faking a semi comatose state isn’t too far off.
i've already watched 3 different reviews of Verity and seeing peoples reactions to it never fails to hit
man if you're gunna make a last chapter epilogue gotcha at least pin it all on jeremy to keep up the theme of scary things happening to your protag. the strongest impression I got from this book is that she blew up what little this family had left because she had a crush on the dad.
dropping my head in shame over my nut allergy
i used to work at a car rental company as a driver. kia souls were one of my favorites to drive 🤫 theyre zippy and theyre like the exact perfect height for me to get in and out of comfortably (which when you are a driver at a rental car place, you do about 850 times a day)
also i think theyre cute 🤭
9:42 "but she's a literal author, so i'm assuming she's literate" GIRL 😭😭😭
the way i gasped
I got so excited when I got the notification, Verity is insane and I love your take on it
Absolutely delighted to see you post today
I NEED you to read "the only one left" by Riley Sager. Very similar sounding vibes to this book. I don't want to give to much but the end of this book made me simply wither away
I love you videos so much, like this is exactly what I needed thank you
"so this is not like a meet cute situation" more like a meet scary. because what the fuck
omg the excitement i feel every time you post got even larger when i saw it was a colleen hoover rant
7:19 at the risk of sounding like a monster, I gotta say this. I have a child. She is 6, almost 7. The fantastic thing about children is their innate ability to be vicious little assholes. They are SO fucking mean and brutal because they are honest, wonderful little people. My daughter is an asshole because she feels safe to tell the truth, even if it hurts my feelings. She will look me in the face and say “you looked prettier when you had bangs” or “your hamburgers don’t taste as good as when dad makes them” AND IT HURTS SO BAD. LIKE DAMN BRO.
kids won’t lie to protect your feelings. They’re incredible. They’re jerks and I love them.
SO if it helps? IG? fans of this book are divided into "team letter" and "team manuscript" - aka which one was real and which was fake. apparently colleen has said that the letter at the end of the book was a lie/trying to trick Lowen and the audience ? in at least one interview i saw she describes verity as "pure evil".
that’s too messy seems to me like backtracking cause she realized her ending was lazy ✊😔
@@ainsleesbookclub no ur so real for this
I *love* your book reviews! They're so much fun to watch
I can’t even tell you the absolute serotonin rush I feel at seeing when you post
Help eating the letter is WILD 😭😭
wait but if verity was a normal person all along, then why did she pretend to be catatonic after the var crash? why did she cut her son with a knife and then hid it?
I’m not a teacher or counselor or anything that requires me to be around kids regularly. However! I can say that being around my friends kids has shown me that they can be assholes 😂
Does the random guy that died in the beginning ever get explained??😭
If Verity was good all along then why was she faking the coma? Makes no sense
Because her husband wanted to kill her.
I haven’t read it, but another RUclipsr reviewed this book and Jeremy is the villain. He already had read the manuscript, knew it wasn’t true but wanted out of the marriage. He liked how the Mc wrote her female characters and the sex scenes. He also kills another woman at the end, on a beach with the mc. Mc is doubting herself now because he’s just murdered this woman for no real reason and made her complicit.
Idk if that’s true or not. Guess I’ll download this book & suffer myself to find out lol
Came for the shitty book. Stayed for the Kia Soul slander.
Goddd I love ur videos I hope u never stop fr
The mid video Kia Soul rant...is absolutely hilarious.
7:50 I think the word you look for is catatonic
pleaseeee read my lady jane it tickled me so hard its the horse boy content we all need
I don't know if I hallucinated this but was there a deleted scene or something cause I swear to god it was insinuated the husband knew the biography was fake (his "quick reading" cause he'd already known it) and he was the one that caused her car to crash??? Verity was like, scared he was gonna kill her which was why she stayed in the "coma"???
Yes, there's a bonus epilogue (that honestly is its own novella with the length), that leans very hard on the answer that whoops the husband IS the bad guy. He kills another person in it too.
Omg it was driving me crazy trying to remember the word you were trying to think of and it came to me, CATATONIC
is it weird to say that i was waiting for more colleen hoover book videos from you even though thinking about the plot of most of them makes me nauseous
i feel like there were SO many opportunities to have a genuinely good twist, like having the husband being the real villain or even a supernatural element but noooooo. colleen hoover genuinely just chose the blandest white bread ass ending of all time
The way I get so excited for your vids
The way you share your burning hatred for Kia Soul is the same way I feel about Priuses 😭😭🤣
6:12 THANK YOU! I HATE THOSE DAMN CARS TOO 😂😂😂
the Nissan Cube was sold from 2009-2014 in North America and the Kia Soul began production in 2008! 2012 is a good guess though! I like looking at cars and knowing about them, I don't like cars in a mechanic way.
I am so glad I found your channel. You are an amazing storyteller and I’m truly gooped and gagged listening to this retelling.