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THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS: BOOK REVIEW

 "I wish you could see yourself the way I see you." Book title: The Love Hypothesis Author: Ali Hazelwood Genre: Fiction, Contemporary Romance Overall rating: 4.5/5 As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships - but her best friend does, and that's exactly what got her into this situation. Where do I begin? Get Ali Hazelwood a damn prize because she created two characters who felt so real and who I cared for so quickly. To say I was invested is an understatement. I found Olive to be loveable, sweet, and a woman of integrity. And Dr. Adam Carlsen ... a true king. Grumpy with quiet confidence yet oh so kind to out heroine, charmed by her and unwittingly charming toward her, it's all very much a YES for me. Ali Hazelwood gave these two the time and attention deserved and gave the reader a really natural-feeling contemporary rom-com, while touching on relevant issues in the STEM community. However, it was written in th...
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VERITY: BOOK REVIEW

 "The world was her manuscript. No surface was safe."


Book title: Verity
Author: Colleen Hoover
Genre: Thriller, Suspense, Romance, Crime fiction
Overall rating: 5/5


Lowen Ashleigh has been offered the deal of a lifetime. Finish the final three books in Verity Crawford's best-selling series and walk away with none of the fame. It's every introvert writer's dream. Cover for the injured writer so the world doesn't know she's incapacitated. Against her better judgment, she accepts this wild new opportunity.

Why read Verity when you can just pull out an Ouija board and summon a demon from hell? I am sure it will have the same effect. I finished this book feeling completely sapped of life, as if I've been bleeding freely for the past few hours instead of simply reading. 
That ending. 
If I could just shake my head to dissolve the memory of it, to disarrange it somehow, I would. Because of all the things I had braced myself for, that was not it.
I love books that make me backtrack my own declarations of preference. The books that catch me completely off-guard, astonish me, and keep me on my toes. Verity is not at all what I expected, and I think it is all the better for it. 
The plot is a hall of mirrors where everything is a vacant reflection, including the people who live there. 
And the ending? That shit struck me backhanded. I am still reverberating from it. Because here's the thing: Verity offers its reader no solidity of truth that they could hold in their hands. Even as I was reading and rereading the last chapter I was mining it for clues, trying to make sense of something that felt so utterly senseless. Everything I had read up until that point felt like a false memory and I was left shaking my fist at the whole book leaving me on such a hideous note as it did.
So, yeah, I'm going to let this story haunt me for a long time.






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