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Verity:
Thoughts on the ending?
Abigail Garner
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(view spoiler)[I think in the heat of it all most people forgot all the other details trickled throughout the entire book. I think it's too much of a coincidence that Jeremy pretended not to know Lowe at the beginning when they were both a the crossroad accident, even if he didn't know her then, from the time she told him her name he may have caught on for sure, but from the way he said he was obsessed with her writing I'm sure he knew what she looked like. So with that assumption everything that got her into their house was a huge manipulation, who's to say he didn't inform the people who Lowe was going to rent from about her eviction so that she could stay longer? I believe the letter was in fact the truth mostly given that the author also trickled in the fact that Lowe wanted to know Verity 's secret for writing such great villain stories... Lowe thought it was because she was truly evil but it was actually because she had practice via her 'journal' People keep saying her autobiography was too detailed and made si much sense but in my opinion it didn't. Verity was just taking real life things and turning it into a villain story. I believe she took Jeremy's emphasis on Chastin's scar and spun a story around it and the fact that the beginning of the story foreshadows Chastain's death is honestly proof that it was fiction. That's why she chose Chastin as her favourite... and maybe irl she also related more to Chastin because of Harper's Aspergers and Jeremy related more to Harper and noticed her bias so she dramatized it more in her writing. Further proof that it was just a journal was the absolutely poor way she wrote the transition from her hating both twins to loving Chastain, it didn't need to make sense... the less sense it made the more evil. She also did truly resent her husband for loving the kids more but in an understandable way and just dramatized it for the book, she just let her writers fantasy loose, incorporating significant events in their life. In reality she was a grieving mother of 3 who missed her husband as well as used her pain to become a well renowned writer. Jeremy himself was also a great father and ok husband in grief and when he read her manuscript without the context it derailed him. Everyone is underestimating Jeremy, seeing him from Lowe's eyes (who was also being manipulated even from the accident) may have blindsided many. I don't think this was necessarily a villain story but just a story of how 2 parent coped with the grief of their series of unfortunate events. Verity by writing a more worse scenario to comfort herself that it could be worse and Jeremy by keeping it in until he exploded on the woman he thought betrayed him and killed his beloved daughters... they both were not in their right frame of minds which is why nothing makes sense. Verity had a right to act the way she did as it turns out her fear was correct, her husband's grief and anger was capable of murdering her and she was actively working on an exit strategy. As for why she told Crew not to talk to Lowe about what happened on the boat, I think she instructed him not to talk to her about her period for fear of confirming Lowe's fears that she was better than she appeared and maybe she gave examples to him saying even if she asks you about what happened on the canoe or... etc etc. Say nothing... In the end they both had a very dark side (who wouldnt after what they had been through) Verity let hers out on paper and Jeremy's led him to ultimately commit murder after a series of hurt and misunderstandings. All that to say I'm team Letter. (hide spoiler)]
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