A friend from work suggested me Verity and even lent me her copy to read. I didn’t like it. (To be honest I’m even a bit angry for the time I lost reading this book). So, if there’s such a thing, I’m looking for something like “anti-verity”. People that didn’t like this book, what books did you enjoy it? Thank you so much for any suggestion.
by No_No_ahMY
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May I ask why you didn’t like it? Because I read the first couple pages of Verity in the book store and immediately put it down because absolutely not, and therefore feel qualified to give you recommendations. Is there a genre you’d prefer and what specifically made you say never again?
… because it ’ s a well – done book.
I love this.
I know absolutely nothing about that book other than I’m positive I’d hate it.
So just to throw one of my random short favorite books at you, check out Timbuktu by Paul Auster.
I also didn’t like it at all, but what books are you into? Mystery?
Oh my god. Are you me???? I despised Verity! I thought it was a heinous mish mash of terrible writing where Hoover basically thought of the most unhinged shit she could possibly put into a given story and put it all in this book. I really don’t mean to sound obnoxious but I also have a BA in English Lit so I know what comparatively good/decent literature looks like.
Here’s a couple of my fave recs by genre!
Historical fiction: House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
Memoir: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Thriller/Romance: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Classic Lit: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Surrealist Lit: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, Journey By Moonlight by Antal Szerb, Cafe Nevo by Barbra Rogan, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Philosophy: The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Fantasy/Romantasy: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas, Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas, Cruel Prince by Holly Black
Magical Realism: Babel by RF Kuang