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Verity: Team Letter or Team Manuscript?

Verity by New York Times bestselling author, Colleen Hoover, is a psychological thriller which is very different from what Hoover usually writes. Like all of the novels I’ve read by her, I enjoyed this one but I was also confused and frustrated–in a good way–with how the novel ended.

Hoover is notorious for always including plot twists in her novels, and while Verity was full of them, the biggest plot twist comes at the end when Lowen finds the letter that Verity wrote to Jeremy with the “truth.” What’s so confusing and frustrating about the ending is that the readers don’t really know who to believe because as the novel escalates, all the characters become suspicious and untrustworthy.

What is Wicca? Who are the Practitioners?

Wicca is an alternative minority religion that began in the U.K. in the 1940s as a pagan movement. The movement arrived in the United States in the 1960s. Unlike the bad reputation of Witchcraft in history, Wicca is not satanic and demonic; it's a 'pre-Christian tradition' that promotes divinity that is sought in nature.

New Podcast Episode: The Last Thing to Burn

Author Will Dean talks about his brand new thriller, The Last Thing to Burn. The book tells the story of a woman being held captive on a remote farm in the UK. Thanh Dao, or Jane as she is renamed by her captor, was trafficked from her home in Vietnam, abused, and stripped of her identity. But now Jane has discovered she is pregnant, and has resolved to protect her child at all costs.