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"Verity by Colleen Hoover: Review, Spice Level, Books Like It, Ending Explained and the Clues You Missed"

A broke writer moves into a stranger's Vermont mansion to finish a famous author's series, and finds the author's hidden autobiography. Hailey reviews Colleen Hoover's Verity spoiler-free, with an honest spice level and content notes, recommends seven books to read next, then, after a spoiler warning, explains the ending, the hidden letter and the clues planted before the twist. Content note: this episode discusses explicit sexual content, the deaths of children and harm to babies.

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Books mentioned in this episode
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

Chapters
0:00 Cold Open
0:35 Welcome
1:13 The Review
8:01 What To Read Next
11:15 Spoiler Warning
11:39 The Ending Explained
18:00 The Clues
22:54 Outro

Scores, the full written review and the videos

Narrated by Hailey, the Book Explained host voice (AI-generated with Kokoro TTS).

Music
"Fresh Air" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Reminiscing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Disquiet" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Friday Morning" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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