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iamwhoiwasnow OP t1_j62k7g3 wrote

Reply to comment by GuyMcGarnicle in What an ending! Verity by Colleen Hoover (SPOILERS) by iamwhoiwasnow

All valid points. If you start dissecting the book you see a lot of inconsistencies but I'm trying to enjoy books more and dissect them less. I think the there's too many conflicting things that happen that if I overthink it I'd come to the conclusion that Verity is a murdering psycho but so is Jeremy.

This part I wheheartedly agree with you. I despised the exposition and I guess it would also help cement the fact that the letter isn't the truth because she's giving exposition to whoever finds it but I genuinely just think Colleen couldn't think of a clever was to address it.

>— from a “literary” perspective, they way Verity delivered all that exposition in her letter, much of it already known to her husband the intended recipient, was just awful writing, not to mention how convenient it was that the letter was found at the perfect time for the conclusion

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GuyMcGarnicle t1_j63qjr4 wrote

I totally agree with this, especially when it comes to thrillers. Personally I think Verity’s letter was a self-serving lie. But it still requires she faked her injury which on its face I find totally unbelievable. If Hoover had taken maybe 100 more pages, she could have made it believable by having the nurse involved in the deception, or possibly Jeremy, or incorporated a supernatural element like a horror novel. By the time the end hit, I had already forgiven several other issues cuz I was enjoying the book, such as … in NYC, seeing a pedestrian hit is actually rare; I don’t believe a child with a peanut allergy and an epi-pen at a slumber party with adults/parents present would just die as depicted; and “Asperger’s” is no longer an actual medical diagnosis, which a parent of a child who has been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder would know. All those things are forgivable … but then the end was just too over the top and it totally took me out of the story.

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