Udyati Malhotra

Spoiler alert. I don't know what to say. This book. It has done something to me. I'm not able to process anything. My mind is filled with questions, uncertainties, and anxiety. I've got a starking pain in my stomach and my heartbeat is racing to an alarming rate. Verity is a psychological thriller and maybe that's what psychological thrillers are supposed to do to the reader but Collin Hoover took this to another level. She made me question the essential goodness of a mother, a woman's love for her family, and how a person can lie to such an extent. I just couldn't take it after Verity conceived and how she tried to kill her children, then formed biases against Harper. I believe it was the minute details of all the unethical acts that made this book unsettling. What could possibly go wrong, it went wrong. The pages turned for themselves. I was curious but at the same time apprehensive to the greatest extent. I somehow managed to finish reading it a while ago and the ending makes the book sensible. Everyone's actions and statements all make sense now. As if the final piece of a puzzle fell into the right place to form an integrated whole Which makes sense. There's a reason for almost everything. A great read, though not for the frail hearted.