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Who Is The Real Villain In 'Verity'?

Just finished Verity and still unsure who to trust – feel like the ending left some subtle clues about that final letter’s authenticity. The real antagonist feels so ambiguous.
2025-06-26 04:31:32
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This was so much better than I expected! Verity is already a terrible person, but this helps explain why. Intentionally confusing reality and lie is very manipulative and makes one question the motives of everyone. It reminds me of web novel ‘Bound By Lies, Broken By Truth’ in which the main character wakes up each day to find out that the world of his reality has been altered in some way. Some of the time it is as simple as changing the rules to which he is accustomed, other times it even affects the relationships that he has formed with others. He must then try to find out what is real and what is not about his current reality.
2026-08-02
Donovan
Donovan
This novel was quite a twisted tale of reality versus perception. I thought for sure we were reading a story about how horrible Verity Crawford was in the beginning of her book where she confessed to some heinous acts upon her children. And then of course the rest of her life was spent in a coma (so justice was served). But after delving into the story further, I realized that our protagonist, Lowen Ashleigh, could be just as evil as Verity was. She altered parts of Verity’s manuscript to include some very disturbing and graphic scenes that weren’t there in the first place. Lowen then allowed Jeremy, Verity’s husband, to believe that these horrific acts were in fact written by Verity. What Lowen wrote in order to sell her manuscript to Jeremy was clear: the worst human beings are those who permit others to descend to the lowest depths of humanity without verifying the facts. In this novel that man is Jeremy and that woman is Lowen.
2025-06-30
Ryder
Ryder
I get the feel of the real villain of Verity being the manipulation of truth and how it affects the whole scenario in Verity. As we are led to read Verity’s manuscript, which portrays her as a very sociopathic mother, it becomes very clear very early on that we are reading her from a perspective of another character, written by Lowen, a writer who is in dire need of something to get her life back on track. How the facts are being manipulated to paint Verity as a monster, is very obvious, not only to provide a great story for Lowen’s writers out there but also for her to get closer to Jeremy, who appears to be very sensitive to the scenario of his wife’s death.

Similarly, Jeremy’s withholding of information about Verity’s illness, as well as his ardent encouragement of Lowen’s investigations into Verity’s life, are equally and highly problematic. That he burns the original manuscript (as opposed to being overcome with grief) shows that he too is bothered by unpleasant truths and thus is compelled to destroy evidence of them.

The novel makes you question whether or not villains need to have intention to cause harm. It could be argued that the greatest evil of the half-truths that Verity seeks to uncover and the subsequent uncontrolled emotions released by said half-truths could all be caused by Verity herself. Perhaps the only thing that Verity is not responsible for is her own current situation and the finger is moving on its own in order to show that she is trapped in her own personal hell and that Lowen is, whether intentionally or not, causing her to descend further into damnation.
2025-07-01
Charlotte
Charlotte
I was getting used to the fact that in Colleen Hoover’s ‘Verity’ there was no villain. The story was all twisted like a funhouse mirror and everything seemed suspect. That would make Verity a villain if the manuscript she wrote was true. But what if it wasn’t? Lowen Fitch was portrayed as the hero of the story but it seemed to me she was only telling Jeremy Fitch what he wanted to hear – cherry picking details to fit her agenda.

No villain here. There is merely the absence of truth and how it is manipulated by the protagonist(s). This is especially true for Lowen who continues to add her own twists and lies to the manuscript in order to stay in Jeremy’s good graces. And while we finally get some answers regarding Verity’s condition in the end, we are never really sure whether what she confessed to writing was true or just part of her manuscript. And Jeremy’s actions speak volumes of his own guilt.

The evil that Colleen wrote is amazingly ordinary. There is no monstrous villain here, just very flawed people behaving badly. And what is even more horror-full than that is that there are so many examples of ordinary people behaving horribly in order to serve their own selfish interests. Anyone can become the villain of someone else’s story.
2025-07-01
Cheylee Kapinos
Cheylee Kapinos
The true villain of the story is parenthood gone horribly wrong. The darkest fears about motherhood are explored: the feelings of resentment, of being inadequate, of even hating your children. And the manuscript that Verity writes (if it’s true) is a manuscript written by a mother who sees her children as an obstacle to her happiness, to her career. The subject is so taboo that it is far more frightening than any character in the novel. The true villain is the way that society pressures mothers to be perfect and how that can become monstrous when it is met with reality. The two characters are just vehicles for this exploration.
2026-07-31

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