It pulls you into a world where truth feels optional and every page whispers something you were never meant to hear. The darkness isn’t loud — it’s subtle, seductive, and deeply unsettling.
This isn’t just a psychological thriller; it’s an experience that crawls under your skin and stays there. The kind of book that makes silence feel heavy and your thoughts feel too loud.
You won’t simply finish Verity.
You’ll question it. You’ll replay it.
And long after the last page, it will still be watching you. 🕯️📖
Good Material by Dolly Alderton -by Pujita Ganotra
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️“Feeling the absence of someone’s company and the absence of their love are two different things. You don’t let go once. That’s your first mistake. You say goodbye over a lifetime. You might not have thought about her for ten years, then you’ll hear a song or you’ll walk past somewhere you once went together – something will come to the surface that you’d totally forgotten about. And you say another goodbye. You have to be prepared to let go and let go and let go a thousand times.”
This was my first Dolly Alderton novel. Shocking! I know, right? But after seeing so much praise for her and her work on Bookstagram, I finally decided to give her work a chance. ‘Good Material’ is about these two people – Andy and Jen. They were in love until they weren’t. Well, at least for Jen, who was the one who broke up with Andy after years of dating. But why? Why did Jen fall out of love with Andy? These are the questions that Andy that occupies a thirty something Andy’s thoughts and in this novel he is determined to find the answer. This was not my first time being in a man’s head (in novels, of course). But when I had the opportunity to be in a thirty something msm who was going through the worst breakup of his life, I was hesitant. However, my hesitation had morphed into curiosity and amazement as I started the novel. Dolly Alderton’s writing was phenomenal. It was whimsical, funny and hard hitting. The central theme of this book was breakups and how men and women really go through with it. One of my favourite parts of the story was how Jen’s friends are there for her through this hard time and how Andy’s friends respond to him going through such a difficult time. The pace of the book was slow but it kept me hooked until the very end. And that one point of view of Jen was a surprise, a delightful one at that. In short, it’s not a Must read book, but it’s a book that will give you a glimpse into what Dolly Alderton has to offer as a writer. And I can’t wait to read more of her work! (Also, she’s the one who’s writing the screenplay of Netflix’s version of ‘Pride and Prejudice’!)
