It Ends With Us: The emotional #1 Sunday Times bestseller

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My glaring 1 Star in a sea of 5s probably makes it pretty clear that I detested this book, but please refrain from fetching your torches and pitchforks for a moment and take note that not only did I just 5 Star a CoHo Story two weeks ago (as well as shoved it down everyone’s throats I possibly could), but also I want to make all of the sexuals with Miles Archer and will fight anyone for dibs on his imaginary lurv making.

I felt sick, but I clenched my jaw and forced myself to keep reading, trying in vain to ignore the tremors that ran through my body.

I was hooked from the first couple of pages and quickly became invested in the characters, they were all written with depth and interest, and it was very easy to visualise each one. I knew I would love Lily from the moment she stood up at her abusive father’s funeral and refused to speak. The story is based on a girl left to survive on her own deep in the marshland of the Carolinas, where she has been abandoned, and mistrusted by almost everyone.

It Ends With Us is a story of gray areas and how quickly you can find yourself in the exact position you thought you of all people would never be in. Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil co-parenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. Twenty minutes to take out the uterus that carried my three beautiful babies for a total of twenty eight months. Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. I fell in love with him, and I kept wishing that Colleen would delete these words, these scenes that hurt me and disappointed me and shattered my belief in happy endings.

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is not only another most perfect perfection that ever perfected, but he’s also rich and a neurosurgeon and very obviously husband material even though he’s never had a girlfriend (also after dating only six months), annnnnnnnd due to their mutually busy schedules not really knowing the guy. The book focuses heavily on human relationships and the effect us humans can have on one another, especially in a romantic sense. Veering off that topic and coming back to my problems with Ryle, is that I strongly despised how he cared for Lily when she was pregnant. Contemporary romance mixed with cutting-edge sci-fi tech, just in time for Valentine’s Day, comes this imaginative and entertaining novel that will have you questioning what the future of dating might hold. I'll say up front that It Ends With Us isn't my favorite Colleen Hoover book, but she pulled out all the feels from me and I ended up crying.

But, his abusive and manipulative tendencies are slowly revealed until it becomes clear that he is an abuser and that this is a case of domestic abuse. Preventing your heart from forgiving someone you love is actually a hell of a lot harder than simply forgiving them. I understand and agree that it is at times, difficult to label someone as “bad” or “good” as it is more complicated than that. Goodreads description-- Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants.

ryle knocked on 29 apartment doors simply just to find lily and proceeded to beg on his knees for her to fuck him. It’s almost like you’re listening to a friend tell a story imperfectly as opposed to the book feeling more polished. Although the message that the cycle of abuse “ends with us” is personal for Hoover, I feel like this depiction is reductive and makes it seem like walking away is a choice all women have. At first, I thought the accelerated relationship between Ryle and Lily was meant to emphasize how witnessing abuse in early age might make you less likely to spot red flags in others; however, it turns out Hoover was really trying to create a deep relationship between these two.EDIT: I read this book when it first came out (as an ARC) and did love it, however, with the continuation of the story I feel like it has tainted (or just changed) my view on this one. I do not doubt that domestic abuse can be very different, but I believe the fact that Colleen’s father was an alcoholic has a huge impact on her final opinion of him.