Verity

3/10
This was a steaming pile of crap and not much better than the reprehensible stuff I used to binge on AO3 or Fanfiction an eternity ago.
There's so much to unpack regarding this novel, but what would be the point? Every second page has an offensive line of dialogue, some character having fucked up thoughts about the other, and so on. Ninety per cent of the novel is about sex or the lack thereof - which would make sense if it was erotica, but why in the world was this marketed as a thriller? I saw the twist coming from miles away, and the second twist came so out of left field that I'll consider it as being there for the shock value.
What irked me the most was the constant babying - rephrasing sentences a few pages after they were first mentioned grated on me greatly, to the point where I considered dropping this book. I persisted, and to be honest, except for the previously mentioned double twist, there's not much I would have missed.
All in all, there's not much to like in Verity - what with all the horrifying depictions of everything. If you want smut - there are tonnes of better authors you could read (I don't know any, except for E.L. James, but they couldn't be worse than this), and if you want cheap thrills - you could always listen to Sia!